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Rita Charon is an internist and literary scholar at Columbia University in New York. She is one of the founders of the field of narrative medicine. Dr. Charon chairs the Department of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia’s medical school and directs many narrative medicine projects throughout the university.

Dr. Charon delivers introductory remarks to this year’s story slam, explaining the value of patient narratives in medicine and offering insights into improved patient-provider communication.


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