Prof Andrew Newberg

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Clinical Nuclear Medicine

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Dr. Andrew Newberg, MD is Director of Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Director of NeuroPET Research, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Radiology at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Upon graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1993, Dr. Newberg trained in Internal Medicine at the Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia, and subsequently completed a Fellowship in Nuclear Medicine in the Department of Radiology, at the University of Pennsylvania. He is Board-certified in Internal Medicine, Nuclear Medicine, and Nuclear Cardiology. His current research now largely focuses on how brain function is associated with various mental states-in particular, the relationship between brain function and mystical or religious experiences. Dr. Newberg's extensive teaching credentials include leading several stress-management programs for the University of Pennsylvania Health System and teaching the physiological basis of various alternative medicine techniques, the neurophysiology of religious experience and the importance of spirituality in medical practice. He is a co-founder of the Institute for the Scientific Study of Meditation. He has also received a Science and Religion Course Award from CTNS.

Dr Newberg has published numerous articles and book chapters and is author, with the late Eugene D'Aquili, of The Mystical Mind (1999) and Why God Won't Go Away (2001). He was also an associate director of the Neuroscience Section for the recent consensus conference on Scientific Research on Spirituality and Health sponsored by the National Institute of Healthcare Research. He serves on the Board and as Secretary of Metanexus Institute.

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