Clinical Professor, Family and Community Medicine, UCSF Co-founder and Medical Director, Commonweal Cancer Help Program Founder and Director, The Institute for the Study of Health and Illness

Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. is Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, and one of the nationally recognized pioneers of integrative medicine. Her books, articles, poetry, workshops, speaking engagements and television appearances, including Bill Moyers' PBS special "Healing and the Mind" have touched millions of people.

Dr. Remen is a co-founder and Medical Director of the award-winning Commonweal Cancer Help Program in
Bolinas, California and the founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness, a training program for physicians who wish to renew their commitment to service and practice with greater compassion and spiritual awareness.

She is author of the New York Times bestseller "Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal" (Riverhead, 1996) and the national bestseller "My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging" (Riverhead, 2000).

Dr. Remen has a forty-nine year history of chronic illness, and her work represents a unique blend of the perspectives of physician and patient. She resides in Mill Valley, California.

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