Watch an excerpt from Dr David Spiegel's episode in the Conversation Series Willson Professor and Associate Chair of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences Medical Director, Center for Integrative Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine Dr. David Spiegel never meant to stir up a storm when he published a study in The Lancet. He had found that women with breast cancer who attended a support group lived twice as long as women who didn't. Dr. Spiegel took women who had metastatic breast cancer and randomly divided them into 2 groups. They all had the same chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, but in addition... Read full article »

Watch an excerpt from Dr Esther Sternberg's episode in the Conversation Series Research Director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine --- “One of 300 women physicians who changed the face of medicine” - National Library of Medicine Dr. Esther Sternberg is a major force in mind-body-stress-wellness research and also studies the way our environment affects our health. Having started out as a family Medical Doctor, then becoming a specialist in Rheumatology, she is now a world-renowned researcher, known for her groundbreaking work on the interaction between the central nervous system and the... Read full article »

Watch an excerpt from Dr Andrew Weil's episode in the Conversation Series Founder and Director, Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine Jones/Lovell Professor of Integrative Rheumatology, University of Arizona (endowed chair) --- One of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world, 2005. Dr. Andrew Weil is a pioneer of integrative medicine and is the driving force behind a new wave of doctors practicing evidence based mind body medicine. Dr. Andrew Weil has been on the cover of TIME magazine twice, which also named him one of the 25 most influential Americans in 1997... Read full article »