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Jim B. Tucker, M.D. is Bonner-Lowry Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neurobehavioral Sciences at the University of Virginia. Dr. Tucker obtained his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He then completed training in psychiatry and child psychiatry at the University of Virginia. After a stint in private practice, he returned to UVA in 2000. He served as the medical director of the UVA Child and Family Psychiatry Clinic for nine years, and he is currently the director of the UVA Division of Perceptual Studies, where he is continuing the work of Ian Stevenson on children who report memories of previous lives. He is the author of two books on the topic that together have been translated into twenty languages, Life Before Life: A Scientific Investigation of Children’s Memories of Previous Lives and Return to Life: Extraordinary Cases of Children Who Remember Past Lives.