Sam Parnia is a British associate professor of medicine at the NYU Langone Medical Center, where he is director of research into cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
13 Facts About Sam Parnia
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Sam Parnia graduated from Guy's and St Thomas' Medical School in London, where he received his MBBS in 1995.
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Sam Parnia then pursued further studies at the University of Southampton, working as a clinical research fellow and obtaining a PhD in cell biology in 2007.
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Sam Parnia maintained an honorary research fellow title at the University of Southampton and continued his collaboration through the Human Consciousness Project, which he founded and directs.
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Sam Parnia leads research on cardiopulmonary resuscitation at Stony Brook University.
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Additionally, Sam Parnia has served as the chairman of the Horizon Research Foundation, a charity founded in 1987 to support research and education in the fields of death, cardiac arrest, mind, brain, and consciousness studies As of 2018, the charity has ceased to exist.
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Sam Parnia is known for his involvement and research in the field of emergency medicine and cardiac arrest resuscitation.
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Sam Parnia conducts research on, and advocates for wider application of, best practices for resuscitation when people die; namely better, perhaps automated cardiopulmonary resuscitation techniques, the use of targeted temperature management, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, brain oximetry, and prevention of reperfusion injury, and wrote his book, Erasing Death as part of that effort.
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Sam Parnia says that many people who are actually dead from heart attacks or blood loss could be resuscitated up to 24 hours after their decease if contemporary best practices as defined by the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation were used promptly.
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The main focus of Sam Parnia's research has been in the optimization of brain monitoring and oxygen delivery methods with a goal of reducing long-term brain injuries as well as disorders of consciousness such as a persistent vegetative state.
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Sam Parnia has advocated for the use of the term "actual death experience" instead of near death experience, to describe human experiences that occur during a period of cardiac arrest.
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Sam Parnia has mostly studied those who have no heart beat and no detectable brain activity for periods of time and believes cardiac arrest is the optimal model to help understand the human experience of death.
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Sam Parnia and others have suggested that a mind that is mediated by, but not produced by, the brain, is a possible way to explain NDE.