This chapter profiles Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, a physician-educator who revolutionized medical education through integrating spirituality and narrative into healthcare training. After graduating from Cornell Medical School (1962) and serving as Associate Director of Pediatrics at Stanford, she co-founded the Commonweal Cancer Help Program (1986) in Bolinas, California (Remen, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD [Official website]. https://www.rachelremen.com/ , n.d.; YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley, Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. [2005 Health & Medicine Honoree]. https://yourywca.org/honorees/rachel-naomi-remen-m-d/ , 2005)[1, 2]. Drawing on her 70-year experience living with Crohn’s disease diagnosed at age 15, she founded the Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (1991) and developed “The Healer’s Art” curriculum at UCSF, now taught at over 90 medical schools in seven countries (Remen, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD [Official website]. https://www.rachelremen.com/ , n.d.; Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (RISHI), Home. https://rishiprograms.org/ , n.d.)[1, 3]. Her bestselling books “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal” (1996) and “My Grandfather’s Blessings” (2000) sold millions of copies in over 20 languages, establishing narrative medicine as essential to healthcare (Remen, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD [Official website]. https://www.rachelremen.com/ , n.d.; House Calls with Dr. Vivek Murthy, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen: can we all be healers? [Audio podcast episode]. Apple Podcasts. . https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-rachel-naomi-remen-can-we-all-be-healers/id1621592840?i=1000626877027 , 2023, September 5). The books won the 1996 Wilbur Award and 2000 Friends of Libraries USA Readers’ Choice Award ((Remen, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD [Official website]. https://www.rachelremen.com/ , n.d.). Dr. Remen is currently a Clinical Professor Emeritus at UCSF, where she continues to train healthcare professionals in relationship-centered care (Remen, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD [Official website]. https://www.rachelremen.com/ , n.d.; Wright State University Newsroom, Boonshoft School of Medicine welcomes the Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness. https://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/2016/04/12/boonshoft-school-of-medicine-welcomes-the-remen-institute-for-the-study-of-health-and-illness/ , 2016, April 12).

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This chapter profiles Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen, a physician-educator who revolutionized medical education through integrating spirituality and narrative into healthcare training. After graduating from Cornell Medical School (1962) and serving as Associate Director of Pediatrics at Stanford, she co-founded the Commonweal Cancer Help Program (1986) in Bolinas, California (Remen, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD [Official website]. https://www.rachelremen.com/ , n.d.; YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley, Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. [2005 Health & Medicine Honoree]. https://yourywca.org/honorees/rachel-naomi-remen-m-d/ , 2005)[1, 2]. Drawing on her 70-year experience living with Crohn’s disease diagnosed at age 15, she founded the Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (1991) and developed “The Healer’s Art” curriculum at UCSF, now taught at over 90 medical schools in seven countries (Remen, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD [Official website]. https://www.rachelremen.com/ , n.d.; Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (RISHI), Home. https://rishiprograms.org/ , n.d.)[1, 3]. Her bestselling books “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal” (1996) and “My Grandfather’s Blessings” (2000) sold millions of copies in over 20 languages, establishing narrative medicine as essential to healthcare (Remen, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD [Official website]. https://www.rachelremen.com/ , n.d.; House Calls with Dr. Vivek Murthy, Dr. Rachel Naomi Remen: can we all be healers? [Audio podcast episode]. Apple Podcasts. . https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dr-rachel-naomi-remen-can-we-all-be-healers/id1621592840?i=1000626877027 , 2023, September 5). The books won the 1996 Wilbur Award and 2000 Friends of Libraries USA Readers’ Choice Award ((Remen, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD [Official website]. https://www.rachelremen.com/ , n.d.). Dr. Remen is currently a Clinical Professor Emeritus at UCSF, where she continues to train healthcare professionals in relationship-centered care (Remen, Rachel Naomi Remen, MD [Official website]. https://www.rachelremen.com/ , n.d.; Wright State University Newsroom, Boonshoft School of Medicine welcomes the Remen Institute for the Study of Health and Illness. https://webapp2.wright.edu/web1/newsroom/2016/04/12/boonshoft-school-of-medicine-welcomes-the-remen-institute-for-the-study-of-health-and-illness/ , 2016, April 12).