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A neuro-psychiatrist and fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, Peter Fenwick is a leading clinical authority on near-death experiences. He has analyzed more than 300 of these life-altering events in the course of four decades of research. A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, he took his bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery degrees at Cambridge in 1960. After clinical training at St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, he was awarded a fellowship to the National Hospital, Queen Square, London, to study neurophysiology. He joined the staff of Maudsley Hospital, London, in 1967 where he ran the epilepsy unit for twenty years. Dr. Fenwick became a consulting neuro-psychiatrist emeritus in 1996. He remains a senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, and is an honorary consultant neuro- psychiatrist at The Radcliffe Infirmary, an honorary research neuro-physiologist to Broadmore Hospital, and an honorary consultant clinical neuro-physiologist at St. Thomas’s Hospital. In 1982, he was awarded the Van Heyden Prize in Forensic Medicine by Cambridge University. Chairman of the research committee of the Foundation of Integrated Medicine and president of The Horizon Foundation (formerly the International Association for Near Death Studies in the United Kingdom), he is president of the Scientific and Medical Network. Dr. Fenwick’s research has involved epilepsy and psychiatric disorders arising from diseases of the central nervous system in addition to near-death experiences. He has published more than 240 papers in medical and scientific journals. With his wife, Elizabeth Fenwick, he is the author three popular books, The Truth in the Light (1997) and, most recently, Past Lives: An Investigation into Reincarnation Memories and The Hidden Door: Understanding and Controlling Dreams, which were published in 1999 by Berkley Publishing Group.
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