Raymond Moody, MD, PhD, is the leading authority on the “near-death experience,” a phrase he coined in the late 1970s. His seminal work, Life After Life, changed the way we view death and dying and has sold more than 13 million copies worldwide. The New York Times calls Dr. Moody the “father of the near-death experience.”
 
For more than five decades, Moody has regularly engaged audiences with his lectures and public speaking events. His Life After Life Institute provides a place for leading-edge researchers and thinkers to share their investigations into near-death phenomena and offers online courses and personal consultations. He is also in the private practice of philosophical counseling and consulting on dying, and training hospice workers, clergy, psychologists, nurses, doctors, and other medical professionals on matters of grief recovery and dying.
 
Moody received his medical degree from the College of Georgia and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Virginia. He is the recipient of many awards including the World Humanitarian Award and a bronze medal in the Human Relations category at the New York Film Festival for the movie version of Life After Life. He is a frequent media guest and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and hundreds of other local and nationally syndicated programs such as TODAY, Turning Point, and MSNBC: Grief Recovery.