Credentials Education and work: Medical School - University of Zurich 1957 Rotating Internship, Community Hospital, Glen Cove, Long Island, NY, 1958-59 Fellow, Manhattan State Hospital 1959-62 Resident, Montefiore Hospital, NYC, 1961-62 Fellow, Psychiatry, Psychopathic Hospital, U. Colo. Med. Sch., 1962-63 Instructor in Psychiatry, Colo. Gen. Hosp., U. Colo. Med. Sch., 1962-65 Asst. Professor of Psychiatry, Billings Hospital, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1965-70 Asst. Director, Psychiatric Consultation & Liaison Service, 1965-69 Acting Chief, Psychiatric Inpatient Service, 1965-66 Associate Chief, Psychiatric Inpatient Service, 1966-67 Staff Mem., LaRabida Children's Hosp. & Rsch Ctr., Chicago, 1969-70 Medical Director, Family Service and Mental Health Ctr., S. Cook County, IL., Chicago Heights 1970-73 President, Ross Medical Assoc. (S.C.) Flossmoor, IL., 1973-76 Chairman of the Board, Shanti Nilaya - Growth & Healing Center, 1977-95 Clinical Professor of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry, Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, 1985 President, Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Center, Head Waters, Virginia, 1977 -1995 Retired 1996 - Present, Arizona Publications: On Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1969 Questions & Answers on Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1972 Death: The Final Stage of Growth, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),74 To Live Until We Say Goodbye, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone), 1978 The Doughy Letter -A Letter to a Dying Child, (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press) 1979 Quest, Biography of EKR (Written with Derek Gill), Harper & Row, 1980 Working It Through , (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1981 Living With Death & Dying, (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone),1981 Remember The Secret, (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press)1981 On Children & Death, (Simon & Schuster)1985 AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge, (Simon & Schuster)1988 On Life After Death, (Celestial Arts) Death is of Vital Importance, ( Out of Print- Now "The Tunnel and the Light" 1995 Unfolding the Wings of Love, (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1996 Making the Most of the Inbetween, (Various Foreign) 1996 Aids & Love, The Conference in Barcelona, (Spain) 1996 Longing to Go Back Home, (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1997 The Wheel of Life, (Simon & Schuster/Scribner),1997 Why Are We Here, (Germany only - Silberschnur), 1999 The Tunnel and the Light, (Avalon), 1999 Life lessons, (With David Kessler), 2001 Real Taste of Life: A photographic Journal Awards: The Algernon Sydney Sullivan Medallion, Mary Baldwin College, VA, 1985 American Academy of Achievment - Golden Plate Award American Academy of Bereavement - Outstanding Achievment 1998 Am. College of Health Care Admin. - President's Award 1993 Backbone of Thanatology Award, Parker Chiropractic Research Foundation, 1977 City of Dallas - Special Recognition Colonel on Staff, Governor E.W. Edwards, Louisiana, 1974 Community Leaders & Noteworthy Americans Award, Raleigh, NC, 1978 Dedication & Outstanding Support Award, CHI, Alexandria, VA 1985 Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Award, American Society of Hospice Care, Weston, MA, 1985 Emergency Nurses' Assoc. - Special Recognition Enriching the Circle of Care Award, CHI, Alexandria, VA 1985 Fellow of the College of Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1976 Fones Award, CT State Dental Association, Hartford, CT, 1986 Gerard B. Lambert Awards - Special Recognition Golden Key to City, Memphis, Tennessee, 1977 Golden Plate Award - American Academy of Achievement 1980 Honorary Citizen, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, 1972 Honorary Citizen, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1974 Honorary Deputy Sheriff, State of Tennessee, County of Shelby, 1979 Honorary State Senator, Louisiana, 1974 Honorary Member, Christophorus Hospiz Verein, Munich, Germany, 1986 Honorary Member, Yoga Fellowship of N. Ireland, 1985 Honorary Member, Mark Twain Society Honorary Member, Board of Trustees, Foundation of Hospice and Home Care, WA, 1983 Humanitarian Award, International Association of Cancer Victims and Friends, Inc.; Solano Beach, CA 1977 Ideal Citizen Award, Chicago, IL, 1977 Inclusion in: Foremost Women of the Twentieth Century, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 1986 Inclusion in: The World Who's Who of Women, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England, 1986 Life Fellow, John F. Kennedy Library, 1987 Life Member, World Institute of Achievement, Raleigh, NC 1986 Living Legacy Award, Women's Intl. Center, La Jolla, CA, 1984 Modern Samaritan Award 1976 National Hospice Organization - Founders Award 1993 One Hundred most Important Thinkers of the Century - Time Mag. 3/99 One Hundred most Important Books of the Century - NY Public Library Patron, Bereavement Counseling Service, St. Anne's Church, Dublin, Ireland, 1987 President's Cabinet Award, University of Detroit, Detroit, MI, 1979 Service to Mankind Award, Southwest Sertoma Club, Kansas City, Missouri, 1977 Southern Birmingham College (Lifetime Achievement) 1995 Teilhard Prize - Teilhard Foundation 1981 Tokyo Soc. of Med. Sciences (Univ. of Tokyo) - Special Recognition University of Detroit - The Presidents Club Visiting Nurses Assoc. of Greater Philadelphia (Lifetime Achievement) 1995 Woman of the Year Award, Ladies Home Journal 1977 Woman of the Decade, Ladies Home Journal 1979 World Institute of Achievement - Outstanding Achievement 1986 More than 20 honorary degrees Advisory boards: Active Caring Project, Cincinnati, OH Association for Holistic Health; San Diego, CA Canadian Institute of Psychosynthesis; Montreal, Canada Continuum; Santa Monica, CA The Dougy Center; Portland, OR The Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Hospice Training Institute; El Rito, NM Halcyon House-Pastoral Counseling Center; Lakewood, CA Hospice of Marin; Kentfield, CA Hospice of Milwaukee; Brookfield, WI Hospice of Orange County; Laguna Hills, CA Huxley Hospice of Palo Alto; Palo Alto, CA International Work Group in Death, Dying and Bereavement; Philadelphia, PA Life Service Center; Phoenix, AZ Long Island Foundation of Hospice Care & Research; Westbury, NY Mountain State Tumor Institute; Boise, ID National Critical Care Institute of Education; Anaheim, CA National Institute for the Seriously Ill & Dying; Philadelphia, PA Paul Brunton Philosophic Foundation; Valley Cottage, NY Royal Victoria Hospital; Montreal, Canada St. Joseph's Hospice; Orange, TX Synthesis of Conscious Living & Dying; Seattle, WA Thanatology Foundation; New York, NY The Threshold Award, Dalhousie University; Halifax, NS, Canada Walden University, Institute of Advanced Studies; Naples, FL Shafenberg Research Foundation, Inc., Kingfisher, OK Institute for Religion and Wholeness; Claremont, CA Santa Barbara Hospice; Santa Barbara, CA International Association for Near-Death Studies; Storrs, CT The Journal of Hospice Care; Weston, MA The Butterfly Center for Transformation; Virginia Beach, VA The Quest Institute; Charlottesville, VA The Simel Memorial Counseling Center; Techny, IL St. David Foundation, Inc; Tucson, AZ Holistics Medicine, The Journal of the British HMA; London, England The American Society of Hospice Care; Weston, MA International Association for Near-Death Studies; United Kingdom, London Institute for Person-Centered Approaches to Peace; La Jolla, CA Institute for Religion and Wholeness, School of Theology at Claremont; Claremont, CA