Rita Charon
“I think my duty is to promote two things in my students: creativity and doubt.”
Rita Charon is a Professor of Clinical Medicine, and Professor and Founding Chair of the Department of Medical Humanities, at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. She has utilized her PhD training in literature and narrative to re-vision physician training and medical practice under the auspices of what is now known as “Narrative Medicine”. Recipient of multiple clinical and literary awards and honors, her numerous publications and curricular innovations have been seminal to establishing the field of Narrative Medicine.
