Talk:Rachel Naomi Remen

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Proposed Edits to RACHEL NAOMI REMEN page[edit]

I work with Dr. Remen and we are proposing the following changes to her Wikipedia page. The citations are out of order; with our proposed citations being placed after the existing citations in the list so as to make it easier to verify. Note that there are several links in the currently published version on Wikipedia that redirect to pages that have no information, e.g. Michael Lerner and Commonweal Institute.

Rachel Naomi Remen (born February 8, 1938, New York, New York) is a physician, medical educator, author, public speaker and one of the earliest pioneers of wholistic and integrative medicine. She is the founder and director of the Institute for the Study of Health & Illness which offers the medical student curriculum called "The Healer's Art" used in over half the medical schools throughout the United States and seven countries abroad.[6] She is also the founder of The Center for the Study of The Healer’s Art (CSHA), which conducts ongoing national research on the outcomes of the Healer’s Art and has published six articles in peer-reviewed national and international medical journals.[8] The Institute has also developed and offers the national curriculum for nursing students called the Power of Nursing and has developed innovative national training programs for post graduate health professionals including resident physicians, physicians, nurses, psychologists and chaplains.

Together with Michael Lerner (environmentalist), she is a founder of the Cancer Help Program at Commonweal Institute, better known as Commonweal. She is also Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Osher Center of Integrative Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.[1][2][3] She has been featured on the PBS television series, Thinking Allowed [4] as well as interviewed by Charlie Rose [7]. In 2007, she was awarded the Pioneer of Integrative Medicine Award by the Bravewell Collaborative and was awarded the Gold Cane Award by UCSF’s School of Medicine.[9] Her work was featured on the groundbreaking 1003 Bill Moyers special Healing and the Mind.

Dr. Remen's most well-known books include "Kitchen Table Wisdom", a New York Times bestseller and "My Grandfather's Blessing", a national bestseller. Kitchen Table Wisdom has been translated into 22 languages, and has sold over 700,000 copies worldwide.[5] It earned the Wilbur Award, Best Non-Fiction Spiritual Book of 1996 [10] and the National Readers’ Choice Award in 2000.[11]

References[edit]
1. Jump up^ A Life in Medicine: A Literary Anthology, Robert Coles, Randy-Michael Testa, Joseph D'Donnell, editors, New York: The New Press (2011), p. 91
2. Jump up^ "Rachel Naomi Remen, MD - The Bravewell Collaborative". Bravewell.org. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
3. Jump up^ "Changing the Face of Medicine | Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen". Nlm.nih.gov. Retrieved 2013-06-08.
4. Jump up^ "Rachel Naomi Remen: Thinking Allowed, DVD, Video Interview". Thinkingallowed.com. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
5. Jump up^ "Rachel Naomi Remen – Kitchen Table Wisdom". Rachelremen.com. Retrieved 2013-06-09.
6. PROPOSED Jump up^ "The Healer's Art Program in Medical Schools". Ishiprograms.org. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
7. Jump up ^ Rachel Naomi Remen: Charlie Rose. http://www.rachelremen.com/about/media-articles/ Retrieved 2014-05-09
8. Jump up ^ Center for the Study of The Healer’s Art – Publications http://www.ishiprograms.org/programs/medical-educators-students/publications/ Retrieved 2014-05-18
9. Bravewell Collaborative – Rachel Remen 2007 Award Speech. Bravewell.org. Retrieved 2014-05-20
10. Wilbur Award, Best Non-Fiction Spiritual Book of 1996, The Religious Public Relations Council, Inc., Boston, Massachusetts, awarded to Kitchen Table Wisdom, Riverhead Books, 1996.
11. 2000 National Readers’ Choice Award, Friends of Libraries USA, awarded to Kitchen Table Wisdom, Riverhead Books, 1996

External links[edit]
• Rachel Naomi Remen's Web site [1]
• Cancer Help Program at Commonweal [2]
• Interview featuring Rachel Naomi Remen on PBS series Healing and the Mind, by Bill Moyers [3]
• Dr. Remen's profile at the Oster Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF [4]

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