Sam Parnia

Dr Sam Parnia divides his time between hospitals in the United Kingdom and Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York, where he is a Fellow in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. He is the Founder and Director of the Human Consciousness Project at the University of Southampton and currently leads a new scientific study, AWARE (AWAreness during Resuscitation), aimed at studying the brain and consciousness during cardiac arrest. His work has been widely featured in The Guardian, GQ, Psychology Today, Time, Newsweek, and on the BBC and CNN and many other publications. He is the author of What Happens When We Die?.