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Rachel Naomi Remen (born February 8, 1938, New York, New York) is a pediatrician who gained fame as an author and teacher of alternative medicine in the form of integrative medicine. She is a professor at the Osher Center of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Together with Michael Lerner, she is a founder of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, a cornerstone program at Commonweal. She is the founder of the Institute for the Study of Health & Illness. She has been featured on the PBS television series, Thinking Allowed.

Remen's most well-known books include Kitchen Table Wisdom and My Grandfather's Blessing, both of which made The New York Times Best Seller list. Kitchen Table Wisdom has been translated into 21 languages, and has sold over 700,000 copies worldwide. She is also the founder of a medical student curriculum called "The Healer's Art" used in medical schools throughout the United States.

References

1. ^ "Rachel Naomi Remen, MD – The Bravewell Collaborative". Bravewell.org. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
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External links

• Rachel Naomi Remen's Web site
• Cancer Help Program at Commonweal
• Interview featuring Rachel Naomi Remen on PBS series Healing and the Mind, by Bill Moyers
• Dr. Remen's profile at the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF
• The National Library of Medicine (NLM), Changing the face of medicine: Celebrating America's Women Physicians – Dr Rachel Naomi Remen

• 1938 births
• Living people
• Writers from the San Francisco Bay Area
• University of California, San Francisco faculty
• American spiritual writers
• 20th-century American women writers
• 21st-century American women writers
• Writers from New York City
• American women non-fiction writers
• 20th-century American non-fiction writers
• 21st-century American non-fiction writers