Life and career Servan - Schreiber was born in Neuilly -sur -Seine, Hauts -de -Seine . He was co-founder and director of the Centre for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. After his voluntary work as a physician in Iraq in 1991 , was one of the founders of the U.S. branch of Doctors Without Borders , an international organization that has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999. He also worked as a volunteer in Guatemala, Kurdistan , Tajikistan, India and Kosovo . He was also a founding board member of the Environmental Health Trust , a leader in efforts to promote safer use of mobile phone ! ! ! In 2002 he was awarded the Pennsylvania Psychiatric Society Presidential for an outstanding career in psychiatry . He is the author of Healing Without Freud or Prozac ( translated into 29 languages , 1.3 million copies sold) and anti- New Way of Life ( translated into 35 languages , the New York Times best-seller , 1 million copies in print ) in which reveals its diagnosis of malignant brain tumor at the age of 31 years , and the treatment program that he put together to help himself beyond his surgery , chemotherapy and radiotherapy. He was also a permanent columnist for Ode magazine and other publications . Death and life after Treated twice for malignant brain tumor , Servan - Schreiber became a leading figure in his work on integrative approaches to the prevention and treatment of cancer. He popularized his knowledge through teaching seminars , lectures , books, a blog and audio books. However, he died of brain cancer in Fécamp on July 24, 2011, after almost 20 years battling with cancer. David Servan - Schreiber was the eldest son of the late French journalist , writer and politician Jean -Jacques Servan - Schreiber
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