1. Rita Charon 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.
11 Facts About Rita Charon
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Rita Charon was born in Providence, Rhode Island and credits her father, a physician serving the French-Canadian population there, as her inspiration to go into medicine.
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Rita Charon completed her residency in internal medicine at the Residency Program in Social Medicine at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, New York.
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Rita Charon began teaching at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1982 and was appointed full professor in 2001.
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Rita Charon completed a doctorate in English from Columbia University in 1999, focusing her studies on the writing of Henry James and the role of literature in medicine.
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Rita Charon currently directs the Narrative Medicine curriculum for Columbia Medical School and teaches literature, narrative ethics, and life-telling, both in the medical center and to students in the Narrative Medicine master's degree program.
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Rita Charon has published and lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally, on the ways in which narrative training helps to increase empathy and reflection in health professionals and students.
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Rita Charon's research is supported by the NIH, the NEH, the Veterans Administration, the Josiah Macy Jr.
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Rita Charon is the recipient of a Kaiser Faculty Scholar Award, a Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residence, and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Rita Charon was named Outstanding Woman Physician of the year in 1996, and in 1997 she received the National Award for Innovation in Medical Education from the Society of General Internal Medicine.
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Rita Charon was selected as the 2018 Jefferson Lecturer in the Humanities by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and delivered her lecture, "To See the Suffering: The Humanities Have What Medicine Needs," at the Warner Theatre in Washington, DC, on October 15,2018.