Peter Brooke Cadogan Fenwick Date of Birth: 25 May 1935
Present Occupation:
Honorary Senior Lecturer Southampton University 27.03.03 - Honorary Senior Lecturer, Kings College, Institute of Psychiatry. Honorary Consultant Neurophysiologist, Broadmoor Special Hospital. Emeritus Consultant Joint Maudsley and Bethlem Hospitals. Emeritus Honorary Consultant Clinical Neuropsychiatrist, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. Emeritus Honorary Consultant Neurophysiologist, St Thomas' Hospital
UNIVERSITY: University of Cambridge, Trinity College
QUALIFICATIONS
BA Cambridge 1957 MB B Chir Cambridge 1960 DPM Part 1 London 1965 DPM Part 11 London 1966 MRC Psych London 1973 FRC Psych London 1984
FELLOWSHIPS: MRC Clinical Research Fellowship 1965 - 76
AWARDS
1986 Best documentary of the year, Ohio State Broadcasting Authority, International award for the documentary series Music and the Brain 1987 University of Cambridge, Ver Hayden de Lancey Prize for `Automatism, Medicine and the Law' 1993 "Ambassador for epilepsy" a distinction awarded by the International Bureau for Epilepsy and the International League Against Epilepsy to experts in epilepsy international care and research 2000 Visiting eminent scientist for 3 months to Riken Neuroscience Centre Japan 2005 Outstanding research award from Scientific Committee of the International Association of Near Death Experiences, USA.
APPOINTMENTS
1960 - 1961 House Physician Ophthalmology, St Thomas' Hospital 1961 - 1962 Medical Casualty Officer, and HO Neurosurgery Unit, St Thomas' Hospital 1962 - 1963 General Practice, Nairobi, Kenya. 1963 House Physician, Hillingdon Hospital. 1963 - 1964 SHO Psychiatry, Warley Hospital. SHO Psychiatry, Academic Unit, Middlesex Hospital. 1964 - 1965 MRC Clinical, Department of Applied Electrophysiology, National Hospital. 1965 - 1967 Clinical Assistant, Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Middlesex Hospital. 1967 - 1969 Registrar, Psychiatry, Maudsley Hospital 1969 - 1970 Acting Senior Registrar, Maudsley Hospital 1970 - 1976 Honorary Senior Registrar, Maudsley Hospital. 1970 - 1974 Research Worker, Institute of Psychiatry. 1972 - Honorary Consultant Research Neurophysiologist at Broadmoor Special Hospital. 1974 - 1996 Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry. 1974 - 1980 Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist, Westminster Hospital. 1974 - 1984 Consultant Clinical Neurophysiologist, St Thomas' Hospital. 1976 - 1977 Honorary Consultant, Joint Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals. 1977 - 1996 Consultant in Neuropsychiatry and Epilepsy, Joint Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital 1989 - 2000 Consultant Clinical Neuropsychiatrist, Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford. 1996 - Honorary Consultant, Joint Bethlem and Maudsley Hospitals. 1996 - Senior Lecturer, Institute of Psychiatry.
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
National lecturer on postgraduate neuropsychiatry and epilepsy courses. International lecturer on the psychiatric conditions associated with epilepsy. International lecturer on behavioural treatment of epilepsy. International lecturer on the psychological sequelae of surgery for epilepsy. Courses on Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences.
CURRENT CLINICAL WORK
Co-Director of both research and clinical programmes at the Department of Neurophysiology at Broadmoor Hospital. A member of that department has a joint appointment at the Kings College - Institute of Psychiatry.
Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the London Sleep Centre, 137 Harley St, London.
Extensive Clinical and Forensic Neuropsychiatric practice
TRAINING AND TEACHING
Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry
MD Supervisor and Examiner PhD Supervisor and Examiner MPhil Supervisor and Examiner AUTP MRCPsych Courses. Institute Diploma. International League Against Epilepsy, postgraduate courses. Numerous postgraduate seminars and lectures. British Epilepsy Society groups all over the country. Courses on Neurophysiology using EEG and MEG. Courses on Consciousness and Near-Death Experiences. Frequently invited International Lecturer.
RESEARCH
My current research interests are:
Magnetoencephalography of sleep and dreaming Surveys of near-death experiences, both anecdotal accounts and from coronary care units. End-of-Life Experiences, death-bed visions and death-bed coincidences, anecdotal accounts. Setting up research programme into End-of-Life Experiences
Magnetoencephalography
The use of magnetic field tomography in various psychological and motor paradigms. An ongoing study in conjunction with Dr Andy Ioannides of RIKEN Neuroscience Institute, Tokyo. We have recently shown it is possible to look in detail at cerebella and brain stem activation during eye movements.
Near-Death Experience and End-of-Life Experience Research:
We are planning to set up a 30 hospital and 1000 patient study of cardiac arrests to obtain about 100 NDE accounts, some of whom will have had out-of-body experiences and may have 'seen' targets in the room when unconscious.
We have completed a pilot study of End-of-Life Experiences and now are setting up a full study.
If you have had an NDE (that involved an out-of-body experience) and/or deathbed visions (DBVs), please feel free to share your account(s) with Dr. Fenwick via eMail to: peter_fenwick@compuserve.com.
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