Melvin L. Morse is an American medical doctor with a special interest in near-death experiences which has led him to appear on many talk shows and television programs.
Education
Morse graduated from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Science. He interned in Pediatrics at the University of California at San Francisco, and then completed a residency in Pediatrics at Seattle Children"s Hospital. He subsequently completed a two-year fellowship in Hematology/Oncology and a one-year fellowship in Behavioral Pediatrics.
Career
Morse is the author of several books on the near-death experience, in which he offers conclusions based on interviewing children who came close to dying. His 1991 book Closer to the Light was a bestseller. Oprah Winfrey interviewed Morse about this book in 1992.
Larry King interviewed Morse in 2010.
The Public Broadcasting Service show Upon Reflection produced a half-hour episode devoted to Morse. He was the subject of an article in the Rolling Stone magazine in 2004 entitled "In search of the Dead Zone".
He lives in Georgetown, Delaware. In 2014 he was convicted of "waterboarding" his wife"s 11-year-old daughter and sentenced to three years in prison.
Morse earned a medical degree from George Washington University in Washington, District of Columbia in 1980.
He worked in California, Idaho and Washington state before moving to Delaware in 2007. His Washington state medical license expired in December 2007. After his arrest on child abuse charges in 2012, his Delaware medical license was suspended.
Prior to his arrest, he was working as a pediatrician at an office in Milton, Delaware.
Morse is a former associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle. He had practiced at Valley Medical Center in Renton, Washington.
Foreign a year, Morse worked as a pediatrician in Fort Hall, Idaho for the Indian Health Service.