Jim B. Tucker, M.D. is Bonner-Lowry Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. A board-certified child psychiatrist, Dr. Tucker served as the medical director of the UVA Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic for nine years. He is also continuing the work of Ian Stevenson at the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies with children who report memories of previous lives. His overview of the research, Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives, was published in 2005 and has been translated into ten languages. His second book, a collection of American cases called Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives, was published in December.