Jim B. Tucker

Jim B. Tucker is the medical director of the Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic, and Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. His main research interests are children who claim to remember previous lives. He is the author of Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children¿s Memories of Previous Lives, which presents an overview of over four decades of reincarnation research. In 2015 his book, Return to Life, also about childhood memories and reincarnation, became a bestseller on the New York Times nonfiction list. Tucker attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a B.A. Degree in psychology and a medical degree.