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Michael Lerner, PhD is president and founder of Commonweal, a health and environmental research institute in Bolinas , California . He is co-founder with Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D. of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program, a week-long retreat for people with cancer featured by Bill Moyers in his award winning PBS series “Healing and the Mind.” Lerner is the author of Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer , (MIT Press), widely considered a seminal book in the field. He is also president and co-founder of Smith Farm Center for the Healing Arts in Washington , D.C. , which offers the Cancer Help Program on the East Coast. Lerner is a member of the CEO Advisory Board of the American Cancer Society. He is also the co-founder of the Collaborative on Health and the Environment, a national partnership of individuals and organizations committed to the prevention of cancer and other diseases.
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