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Dr Mark O'Connell Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education University of Miami School of Medicine acknowledges:

“I am a very traditional doc,” O’Connell says. “I teach internal medicine and I’m on the faculty of a medical school and  one of the Deans. I’m definitely not out there on the fringe.  This definitely rattled my construct of how the body works - how disease works. What I personally witnessed with my own patients definitely got me wondering, where does all this fit? There is definitely a mind-body connection - nobody can deny that, whether you are an integrative medicine person or a traditional western medicine practitioner."

The mind and the body are one. And anybody who denies that is not paying attention.

O'Connell recalls observing firsthand one of Eric Pearl's healing sessions with a patient who had serious chronic medical problems which were going to require surgery. O’Connell says that as he watched Pearl “waving his hands around over her," he witnessed a dramatic improvement in her condition.

Dr Mehmet Oz is vice-chair and professor of surgery at Columbia University. He directs the Cardiovascular Institute and Complementary Medicine Program at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital. The reason I’m so excited and passionate about alternative medicine is because it is the globalization of medicine. Alternative medicines, deal with the body’s energy—something that traditional Western medicine generally does not. We’re beginning now to understand things that we know in our hearts are true but we could never measure. As we get better at understanding how little we know about the body, we begin to realize that the next big frontier… in medicine is energy medicine. It’s not the mechanistic part of the joints moving. It’s not the chemistry of our body. It’s understanding for the first time how energy influences how we feel.

According to Dr. Oz "energy medicine" is at the forefront of healing, but he acknowledges that he is sometimes a lone pioneer in this field. "I really think it would be cowardly to pull back and not challenge the status quo, when the status quo may not be the right way for the field to go," Oz said.

Other organizations researching Reconnective Healing include:

    Jackson Memorial Hospital
    UCLA
    Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
    the VA Hospital
    University of Minnesota

New research programs, including laboratory testing and clinical studies, are presently underway at multiple facilities.