Michael Lerner is co-founder of Commonweal Wellness, a health and environmental research institute, and of Smith Center for Healing and the Arts in Washington, D.C.
He is a member of the Advisory Board of the American Cancer Society.

Smith Center for Healing and the Arts

Smith Center for Healing and the Arts is a nonprofit health, education and creative arts organization that serves individuals, families and communities affected by cancer and other serious illnesses. The organization's work is grounded in the idea that each person has tremendous innate abilities to heal in the face of illness.

Founded in 1996 by Washington D.C. artist and benefactor Barbara Smith Coleman, together with Michael Lerner, Smith Center is located in Washington DC's U Street Corridor

U Street Corridor

The U Street Corridor is a commercial and residential neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C with many shops, restaurants, nightclubs, art galleries, and music venues along a nine-block stretch of U Street. It extends from 9th Street on the east to 18th Street and Florida Avenue on the west...

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In May 2008, the organization opened the Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts gallery to promote the understanding and utilization of the arts for healing. The gallery is open to the public and exhibits works that focus on individual, community and global issues.

Works

• "Surviving the Great Dying", Yes!, Mar 31, 2003
• "The Age of Extinction and The Emerging Environmental Health Movement", Commonweal
• Michael Lerner, PhD. Medicine and the environment. Interview by Bonnie Horrigan.
• Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer, MIT Press, 1996, ISBN 9780262621045

External links

• Website
• Statement by Michael Lerner
• Distinction Between Curing and Healing -Michael Lerner, PhD
• Keynote: Michael Lerner
• The New School at Commonweal: Ecology, Culture, Inner Life, podcast