Richard Petty

Richard G. Petty graduated in medicine from the London Hospital Medical College, University of London, in 1976. He is currently Research Director of the Promedica Research Center in Atlanta, and Adjunct Professor at Georgia State University College of Health Sciences.

In addition to his basic medical degree, he holds an advanced degree in Biochemistry, another in Physiology and another Doctorate in Endocrinology. He has the unusual distinction of being a Member of both the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the United Kingdom.

He practiced and taught internal medicine and endocrinology for 14 years, before also training in psychiatry at the Bethlem Royal & Maudsley Hospitals, London, and Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore.

Dr Petty has had a 35-year interest in complementary medicine, both as a practitioner and as a researcher. He has been Chairman of the Research Council for Complementary Medicine, and worked closely with Prince Charles’ Foundation for Integrated Medicine.

He has travels extensively and has personally taught more than a quarter million people in 45 countries in the last five years alone.

He was for many years on the Faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, and there he founded the first Integrated Medicine Program in the Department of Psychiatry. In addition to his medical credentials, he has had extensive training in acupuncture, including advanced work in China, as well as hypnotherapy, homeopathy, and Reiki. He has also taught meditation, T'ai Chi Ch'uan and Qigong.