Sam Parnia, MD, PhD, is the Director of Critical Care & Resuscitation Research at the New York University School of Medicine, as well as the Co-chair of the cardiac arrest resuscitation clinical service at New York University Langone Health System. Currently, he directs multiple large studies of cardiac arrest across many hospitals in the United States and United Kingdom. He is the author of two books, The New York Times Bestseller, Erasing Death: The Science That is Rewriting the Boundaries Between Life and Death (Harper One) and What Happens When We Die (Hay House). He has regularly appeared on major media outlets on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Today Show, Dr. OZ, NBC, Fox News, Discovery, National Geographic, Popular Science, New Scientist, Time Magazine, The BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times (London), CBS, The Daily Mail, Daily Express, and Frontline, to name a few.
