About The Institute for the Study of Health and Illness

The Institute for the Study of Health and Illness (ISHI) was founded and is directed by Rachel Naomi Remen, MD. Dr Remen is also the Medical Director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program and Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. To learn more about Dr Remen and ISHI's administrative staff, go to Who's Who at ISHI.

ISHI is accredited by the California Medical Association's Institute of Medical Quality to provide Category 1 continuing medical education credit to participating physicians, and by the California Board of Registered Nurses to offer continuing education credit to nurses.

On this website you can learn more about our retreat workshops and our medical school course, The Healer's Art. You'll learn about our outreach support program, Finding Meaning in Medicine. Or, you may just want to visit The ISHI Store where we'll continue to make available a number of books, audio and video tapes that address the changes in health care today and the work of Dr Remen to bring healing relationship back to the core of health care practice.

Our ISHI offices are located at Commonweal... Come with us of this beautiful coastal paradise!

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