Bernie Siegel, M. D., Founder if Exceptional Cancer Patients (ECap)

Dr. Bernie Siegel has been familiar to both mainstream and professional medical audiences for almost two decades, as one of the most persuasive advocates of complementary and alternative medicine--particularly mind-body healing. His credentials (an undergraduate degree from Colgate University in Hamilton, N.Y., a medical doctorate from Cornell Medical College in Ithaca, N.Y,. and surgical training at Yale University in New Haven, Conn.) are impressive. With his appealing charismatic style, demonstrated on Oprah, Donahue, 20/20 and scores of other popular television programs, general audiences find him and his message especially compelling.

Siegel's first book, Love, Medicine and Miracles (Harper, 1986), sold more than two million copies and went to No. 1 on the New York Times best seller list. [His other works are Peace, Love and Healing (Harper, 1989) and How to Live Between Office Visits (Harper, 1993).] All three books document the innovative work Siegel and his wife, Bobbie, have done to encourage healing and personal growth through "carefrontation"--a variety of holistic techniques for empowerment and self awareness that includes the use of dreams, drawings and images.

In 1978, the Siegel's founded the Exceptional Cancer Patients (ECaP) program, a combination of group and individual therapy in New Haven, Conn. Since retiring from clinical practice in 1989, Siegel, working with Bobbie, has focused on humanizing medical care and medical education and teaching other health care professionals about the mind-body connection.

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