Sam Parnia

Sam Parnia
Born	London, England
Alma mater	Guys and St. Thomas' Medical School (MBBS), University of Southampton (Ph.D.), University of London and Weill Cornell Medical Center (residency)
Known for	Research on near-death experiences and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
Scientific career
Fields	Intensive-care medicine
Institutions	Stony Brook University School of Medicine

Sam Parnia is a British Assistant professor of Medicine at the Stony Brook University School of Medicine where he also is director of research into cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and he is director of the Human Consciousness Project at the University of Southampton. Parnia is known for his work on near-death experiences and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Parnia graduated from Guys and St. Thomas' Medical School in London where he received his MBBS in 1995. He then went on to the University of Southampton where he worked as a clinical research fellow and earned a PhD in cell biology; he graduated in 2007. He retained a title as honorary research fellow at University of Southampton, and continued to do work with that institution through the Human Consciousness Project that he founded and directs.

Parnia completed his fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of London and at the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York City in 2010 and then joined the faculty at Stony Brook University School of Medicine as a member of the Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Division, where he also directs research into cardiopulmonary resuscitation. His British medical credentials were recognized by the State of New York as a medical degree in 2012.

The Horizon Research Foundation was founded in 1987 to fund and foster research into near death experiences; as of 2016 Parnia owned the domain for its website and was a trustee, along with David Lorimer, Peter Fenwick, and John Tomlinson.

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