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Lewis Mehl-Madrona, MD, graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and trained in family medicine, psychiatry, and clinical psychology. He has been on the faculties of several medical schools, most recently as associate professor of family medicine at the University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine. He is working with aboriginal communities to develop uniquely aboriginal styles of healing and health care for use in those communities. He is also currently working to develop a program for people with schizophrenia that involves healing through community. The author of Coyote Medicine, Coyote Healing, and Coyote Wisdom, a trilogy of books on what Native culture has to offer the modern world, he is of Cherokee and Lakota heritage.Dr. Mehl-Madrona’s search for a parallel path to biomedicine became apparent in medical school when he learned from the professor of medicine and pharmacology that By the weekend, he had found a Cherokee healer with whom to study. That was 1973 and he hasn’t stopped his studying with elders.