People at Janki Foundation
The Scientific and Medical Advisors of the Foundation
Dr Craig Brown, MB, ChB, MRCGP Dr Craig Brown, MB, ChB, MRCGPDr Craig Brown has recently retired from general practice in Sussex, but still does sessions at his old surgery. He is a trustee of the British Holistic Medical Association and of the Janki Foundation. Throughout his medical career he has had an interest in spirituality in healthcare. He was a member of the core group that designed the training pack ‘Values in healthcare a spiritual approach’, and has facilitated training in this country and overseas. Mr Arnold Desser, BA (Hons), CAc (China), MBAcCArnold Desser is a senior lecturer at the School of Integrated Health, University of Westminster. He practices traditional Chinese medicine in the NHS and trains acupuncture students in primary health care settings. He teaches consultation skills to GP registrars and is a course leader on the 'Training the Trainers' course for the London Deanery of Postgraduate Medical Education. He also has a background in systemic family therapy that he integrates into his teaching and clinical work. Arnold is a member of the original core team that developed and produced Values in Healthcare: a spiritual approach. Dr Sarah Eagger, MBBS, FRCPsychDr Eagger is Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychological Medicine, Imperial College London and consultant psychiatrist for the elderly at the CNWL NHS Foundation Trust. She pioneered research on the first licensed treatment for Alzheimer's disease at the Maudsley Hospital, London. Dr Eagger has a longstanding involvement in holistic health and was chairperson of the British Holistic Medical Association for many years. She is concerned with the application of holistic principles and their implications in the education and training of doctors. She is current chair of the Spirituality and Psychiatry special interest group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists and is a key member of the core team working on the Janki Foundation for Global Healthcare training material Values in Healthcare: a spiritual approach. Dr Peter Fenwick, MB, Bchir (Cantab), DPM, FRCPsychDr Fenwick is an emeritus honorary senior lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London, Honorary Senior Lecturer in the academic department of psychiatry Southampton University and honorary consultant in neurophysiology to Broadmoor Special Hospital. He has published numerous scientific papers on brain function and also several papers on meditation and altered states of consciousness. He currently researches in Japan on the neuroscience of magnetic brain activity. His most recent book is 'The Art of Dying'. Dr Fenwick is also President of the Scientific and Medical Network, a group of doctors and scientists seeking to deepen understanding in science and medicine by spiritual understanding which goes beyond our current materialistic paradigm.
Dr Ashok Mehta, MS, FRCS, FICSHead of Department of Cancer at Nanavati Hospital, Consultant Cancer Surgeon at Lilavati Hospital and also Medical Director, BSES MG Hospital managed by the Brahma Kumaris’ Global Hospital & Research Centre. In addition to being a Fellow and Member of many international surgical societies, he was elected fellow qua surgeon of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (FRCS) (1995). He was awarded the Dr. B. C. Roy National Award (1996) in the category of Development of Specialities. He was President of Association of Surgeons of India, and Indian Society of Oncology, President of the Oncology Section of ASI. He is currently President of the Indian Society of Head and Neck Oncology. He is a former Chief of Surgery & Chief of Head and Neck Service at the Tata Memorial Hospital. Dr David Peters, MB, ChB, DRCOG, MFHom, MRODr Peters is a registered medical practitioner and Osteopath and member of the Faculty of Homeopathy. For the last 10 years he has been directing the Complementary Therapies’ service delivery and research unit at Marylebone Health Centre and Inner City General Practice set up with the aim of developing approaches in primary care. He is Director of Complementary Therapy Studies in the Centre of Community Care and Primary Health at the University of Westminster and inter-disciplinary unit, whose programmes include four undergraduate degrees and two post graduate programmes. He is the co-author of the new Encyclopaedia of Complementary Medicine. His team at Marylebone Health Centre are involved in a four-year project on the impact of complementary therapies on NHS General Practice. Dr Andrew Powell MA, MB.BChir, MRCP, FRCPsychDr Andrew Powell is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist who has held Consultant and Senior Academic Appointments at St George's Hospital and Medical School, London, and in Oxford. He is an Associate of the College of Healing and Founder Chair of the Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, UK (www.rcpsych.ac.uk/spirit). Dr Hansa Raval, MDDr Raval is a retired Colonel from the United States Army after 26 years of service; a physician with three sub-specialities: clinical pathology, cytopathology and oncology; an expert in nutrition with degrees in Nutrition and Social and Preventative Medicine from the World Health Organization (WHO); and former Director of the Departments of Pathology and Cytopathology at the U.S. Army’s largest medical centre. Dr Raval is currently a consultant for the U.S. Army Medical Centre and provides spiritual counselling to wounded soldiers. | "I have always felt that, because human life is so valuable, it is very important to live it out with purpose. The purpose of life at this point in time, according to the needs of today's world, is to set an example for others; indeed, to make your very life that example."
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