Deepak Chopra, MD, FACP, founder of The Chopra Foundation (a nonprofit entity for research on wellbeing and humanitarianism), and Chopra Global (a modern-day health company at the intersection of science and spirituality), is a world-renowned pioneer in integrative medicine and personal transformation. TIME magazine described him as “one of the top 100 heroes and icons of the century.” 

A clinical professor of family medicine and public health at the University of California, San Diego, Deepak serves as a senior scientist with Gallup Organization. He’s authored more than 90 books (translated into more than 40 languages) including numerous New York Times bestsellers. His 90th book, the national bestseller Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential, unlocks the secrets to moving beyond our present limitations to access a field of infinite possibilities. 

For the past 30 years, Deepak has been at the forefront of the meditation revolution. His latest book, Total Meditation, helps readers achieve new dimensions of stress-free, joyful living. 

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James Maskell is the host and founder of the Functional Forum, the largest integrative medicine conference in the world, streamed live to physician communities in over 100 countries. He is also the CEO of Evolution of Medicine, a community e-commerce hub that fuses technology and functional medicine. James has been featured at TEDMED, Huffington Post Live, TEDx, KevinMD and several other organizations. He has lectured to physician audiences on three continents, worked with AIHM, The Integrative Health Symposium and George Washington University’s Metabolic Medicine Institute, and spent four years on the faculty of “Heal Thy Practice.”