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Biographie de Rachel Naomi Remen

Rachel Naomi Remen, M. D. is Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at UCSF School of Medicine and Founder and Director of the Institute for the Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal. She is one of the best-known of the early pioneers of Wholistic and Integrative Medicine. As a medical educator, therapist and teacher, she has enabled many thousands of physicians to practice medicine from the heart and thousands of patients to remember their power to heal.
Her groundbreaking curriculum for medical students, The Healer's Art, is taught in 90 of America's medical schools and medical schools in 7 countries abroad. A master storyteller and observer of life, her bestselling books, Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessings, have sold more than a million copies and are translated into 23 languages. Dr. Remen has had Crohn's disease for more than 60 years and her work is a unique blend of the wisdom, strength and viewpoints of both doctor and patient.