Rita Charon

Rita Charon (born 1949 in Providence, Rhode Island), is a physician, literary scholar and the founder and executive director of the Program in Narrative Medicine at Columbia University. She currently practices as a general internist at the Associates in Internal Medicine at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, and is a professor of clinical medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.

Charon is the author of ''Narrative Medicine: Honoring the Stories of Illness'' and co-editor of ''Stories Matter: The Role of Narrative in Medical Ethics'' and ''Psychoanalysis and Narrative Medicine''. Provided by Wikipedia