Samuel LeBaron, MD, PhD is Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine.  For the past two years he served as Professor and Chair of Clinical Medicine at the American University of Antigua.  He completed a doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Michigan State University in 1979. He conducted research and published numerous articles and chapters regarding physician-patient communication and mind-body approaches to managing chronic illness. After he became Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center he entered medical school, completing his MD training in 1989 at the University of Calgary in Canada, and his residency in Family Medicine in San Jose, California in 1992.  He spent the next 20 years on the faculty of Stanford University School of Medicine, where he focused on improving medical student education and excellence in patient care.  He organized the first course in the medical school on Integrative Medicine, and has received numerous awards for outstanding teaching and for his clinical work.  He was appointed Director of the Center of Education in Family and Community Medicine in 2002 for several years. He also completed additional training in medical acupuncture, which he incorporates into his clinical work.