Rita Charon

Rita Charon is a general internist and literary scholar and one of the founders of
the field of narrative medicine. She completed the MD at Harvard and the PhD in English
at Columbia. She is the Bernard Schoenberg Professor of Social Medicine, Professor of
Medicine, and founding chair of the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at
Columbia. Her research in narrative medicine has been supported by the NIH, the NEH,
and many private foundations. She authored, co-authored, or co-edited four books on
narrative medicine. She lectures and teaches internationally and publishes in leading
medical and literary journals.