David Servan-Schreiber

David Servan-Schreiber (April 21, 1961 – July 24, 2011)[1] was a French physician, neuroscientist and author.

He became co-founder and then director of the Centre for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.

Following his volunteer activity as a 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.

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 35 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 programme that he put together to help himself beyond his surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.

Having been treated twice for a malignant brain tumor, Servan-Schreiber became a leading figure in his engagement for integrative medicine approaches to the prevention and treatment of cancer.