 Chris Kurz, Homeopathy Online
Senior Editor was born 32 years ago in Austria in a small town close to Vienna. As Chris
tells it, after all the dust had settled from growing up and going through puberty he
decided that he wanted to become either a scientist or a musician. Not being able to
justify giving up either one, Chris split his time and energies between the two, studying
physics at the Technical University of Vienna, and Jazz Saxophone at the Conservatory of
Vienna. He graduated from both schools in 1989, and then reality caught up with him and he
realized a career decision was unavoidable: music or science. Chris received an offer to
continue towards a Ph.D. in physics in America at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts – so the decision was made for him.
During his studies he worked as a physics teacher and concurrently developed a hands-on
physical science curriculum for 10 to 19 year-old students, a curriculum now being
marketed across the United States. In 1995, Chris graduated with a Ph.D. in Plasma Physics and worked in San Diego until 1989. He now lives and works near Vienna, Austria. Chris' parents used homeopathy, so he was exposed to this field of medicine very early on as a patient. It was only after Chris arrived in the United States and found out that homeopathic care was much less accessible than in Europe that he considered learning more about it. For the past four years, Chris has explored the field of homeopathic medicine. He obtained the bulk of his homeopathic education by building up a nice library of books and reading every single one of them over the long Boston winters. He attended every seminar available on the east coast and tried to interact with other homeopaths as much as possible. In the last year Chris has extended his practice of homeopathy beyond his circle of friends and family. He doesn't maintain a full-time practice, but does have enough of a case load to gain valuable clinical experience. Chris considers himself fortunate in that he has had the help and supervision of skilled homeopaths along the way. Teaching is one of Chris' passions and he hopes to help establish high educational standards in homeopathy. His long-term goal is to unite science and homeopathy in his life and to demonstrate to skeptics on both sides that the seeming schism between these two fields is a reflection of our thinking and not a fact of nature. |
