Rita Charon
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Rita Charon is a general internist, literary scholar, and the originator of the field of narrative medicine. She is Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics and Professor of Medicine at Columbia University. Her research focuses on the consequences of narrative medicine practice, reflective clinical practice, and health care team effectiveness. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Rockefeller Bellagio residency, and recognition from many medical and literary societies. Her work has been funded by NIH, NEH, and private foundations, and her essays appear in the leading medical and literary journals. Her most recent book, co-authored with seven narrative medicine colleagues, is The Principles and Practice of Narrative Medicine (Oxford 2017). Currently, she directs the Virginia Apgar Teaching Academy for Medical Educators and Columbia Commons IPE, the health sciences campus interprofessional education and practice program.
Links
- “Honoring the Stories of Illness: Dr. Rita Charon Ted x Atlanta.”
- “2018 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities with Dr. Rita Charon.”
- Why Storytelling Matters in Fields Beyond the Humanities. The Chronicle of Higher Education. 4 October 2018.