Healing Journeys FREE Cancer as a Turning Point Conferences: Seattle 2004 Conference Presenters

Cancer and Healing

Innovative Theories and Practices of Psychosocial Support

Conference Presenters

Jeff Kane. MD
Lawrence LeShan, PhD
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
Martin L. Rossman, MD, Dipl.Ac.

Jeff Kane, MD has devoted the past twenty-eight years of his practice to the facilitation of cancer support groups. He founded the support programs at Sutter Cancer Center in Sacramento and Sierra Nevada Cancer Center in Grass Valley, CA, where he serves as Director of Psychosocial Education. He is the author of Be Sick Well and The Healing Companion (and its current paperback edition, How to Heal), and dozens of articles on the healing relationship. He teaches personal contact skills to professional and family caregivers across the nation.

Lawrence LeShan, PhD is a research and clinical psychologist who has worked with people with cancer for over fifty years, helping them to add their own healing ability to their medical treatment. Dr. LeShan, a recipient of the Gardner Murphy Award, the Pathfinder Award and the Norman Cousins Award, is the author of approximately 100 professional papers and eleven books which have been translated into 14 languages; these include Cancer as a Turning Point and How to Meditate. For information about Dr. LeShan's workshops, please see http://www.cancerasaturningpoint.org.

Rachel Naomi Remen, MD is Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF and Founder and Director of The Institute For The Study of Health and Illness at Commonweal. The Institute is a professional development program for physicians at all levels of training who wish to deepen their capacity for empathy, compassion, understanding and communication. She is the Director of the Institute’s course, The Healer’s Art now taught at UCSF Medical School and 34 other medical schools nationwide. Dr. Remen is co-founder and Medical Director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, featured in the 1993 Bill Moyers PBS series, Healing and the Mind. She has a fifty-year personal history of Crohn’s disease and her work uniquely blends the viewpoint of physician and patient. She is the author of two best sellers, Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal (Riverhead, 1996) and My Grandfather’s Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge and Belonging (Riverhead, 2000). More information, please see http://www.rachelremen.com

Martin L. Rossman, MD, Dipl.Ac. is a physician, acupuncturist, author, and educator known internationally as a pioneer in the field of guided imagery and alternative medicine. He is Founder and Director of the Collaborative Medicine Center in Mill Valley and Co-founder and President of the Academy for Guided Imagery, a postgraduate training organization through which he has taught guided imagery to over 10,000 health professionals since 1982. He is the author of Fighting Cancer from Within: How to Use the Power of Your Mind For Healing and Guided Imagery for Self-Healing: An Essential Resource for Anyone Seeking Wellness. Dr. Rossman is a Clinical Associate in the Department of Medicine at UCSF, on the Adjunct Faculty of the California School for Professional Psychology, and a consultant to the Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF and the Rosenthal Center for Complementary Medicine, Columbia University, New York. His emphasis is on helping patients learn how to help themselves.More info, please see http://www.guidedimageryhealing.com