| 1. Born and raised in New Delhi. |
| 2. Studied medicine in India before moving to the United States in 1970. |
| 3. Became Chief of Staff at New England Memorial Hospital (NEMH) in 1980. |
| 4. Founder and President of the American Association of Ayurvedic Medicine. |
| 5. Adjunct Professor in the marketing divisions of Columbia Business School & Kellogg School of Management. |
| 6. Serves as a board member of Men's Wearhouse since 2004. |
| 7. Founder of Chopra Foundation and ISHAR. |
| 8. Promoted from assistant professor to full professor at the University of California, San Diego in 2016. |
| 9. Recipient of the Ig Nobel Prize in physics in 1998. |
| 10. Regarded as America's leading advocate for Ayurveda. |
| 11. Author of 80 books, 21 of which made The New York Times bestsellers list. |
| 12. His book, The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success, was a New York Times Best Seller for 72 weeks. |
