David Servan-Schreiber, author of the best-selling book Anticancer, will present at the Society for Integrative Oncology Annual Conference on the 12th November 2009.

Dr. Servan-Schreiber is a psychiatrist and neuroscientist who is clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and cofounded the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He co-directed for several years a US National Institutes of Health lab for the study of clinical cognitive neuroscience and functional neuroimaging, has published more than 90 scientific monographs, and has lectured at leading international academic centres, including Stanford, Columbia, Cornell, and Cambridge. One of the original seven members of the US board of Doctors Without Borders, he helped provide medical and psychiatric relief in Kurdistan, Guatemala, India (Tibetan refugees), Tajikistan and Kosovo, and continues to develop mental health interventions for victims of crises, while also training therapists in crisis areas. He is the author of The Instinct to Heal and Anticancer: A new way of life.

Biography

David Servan-Schreiber, M.D., Ph.D. is a physician, neuroscientist and author. He is a clinical Professor of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is also a lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine of Lyon I. He was co-founder and then director of the Centre for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Following his volunteer activity as physician in Iraq in 1991, he was one of the founders of the US branch of Médecins Sans Frontières, the international organization that was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. In 2002 he was awarded the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society Presidential Award for Outstanding Career in Psychiatry. He is the author of "Healing Without Freud or Prozac" (translated in 29 languages, 1.3 million copies sold) and "Anticancer, a New Way of Life" (translated in 33 languages, New York Times best-seller, 1 million copies in print) in which he discloses his own diagnosis with a malignant brain tumor at the age of 31 and the treatment program that he put together to help himself beyond his surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy. He is also a regular columnist for Ode Magazine and other publications. Having been treated twice for a malignant brain tumor, he is a leading figure in his engagement for integrative approaches to the prevention and treatment of cancer; he popularizes his knowledge through teaching seminars, lectures, and books. David Servan-Schreiber is the eldest son of the late French journalist, author and politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and currently lives in Paris, France.