TOWARD THE LIGHT ~ Monday, 29 May 2006 & 28 October 2007 ~
Dr. Pam Kircher is a board-certified family physician as well as a board-certified hospice and palliative care doctor. She is the author of Love is the Link: A Hospice Doctor Shares Her Experience of Near-Death and Dying.
(Available through Larson Publications at 1-800-828-2197 or at
larson@lightlink.com. Dr. Kircher speaks nationally on end-of-life
issues and near-death experiences. She has given over 200 talks on NDEs
to a variety of audiences including physicians, college students, death
educators, hospice workers, and the general public. She has been a
member of IANDS for over 15 years. In addition to being widely read in
the field of NDEs, Dr. Kircher, herself, had a near-death experience at
six years of age during an episode of meningitis. That experience has
greatly contributed to her understanding of the near-death experience.
Her educational background includes a degree in Zoology from
the University of Missouri, graduate work in experimental psychology at
the University of Texas at Arlington, a medical degree from Baylor
University College of Medicine, and completion of a residency in Family
Practice at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston,
Texas. She has also completed the UCLA course in medical acupuncture.
After
completing her residency, she practiced as a family physician for eight
years in Houston, Texas. She served as a hospice physician at the
Hospice at the Texas Medical Center in Houston for four years before
moving to Durango, Colorado where she now lives. Currently, she
counsels people with life threatening illnesses, serves as Medical
Director of Integrative Care at Mercy Medical Center, and is a
certified instructor in Healing Therapy. As medical director of
Integrative Care, she has introduced energy work into the in-patient
setting and has helped to create a pre-surgical program that
incorporates visualization and energy work. She has also served as a
volunteer family physician in underdeveloped countries, including
Guatemala and Fiji.
In
addition to her work as a medical doctor, Pam is a Master Trainer in
Tai Chi for Health and certifies instructors in Tai Chi for Arthritis
and Tai Chi for Diabetes throughout the country. She currently serves
as President of the Tai Chi for Health Community, Inc. (TCHC.)
