Barrie Cassileth

Barrie R. Cassileth is an American researcher of complementary and alternative medicine, and has published extensively on alternative cancer treatments. She founded the Integrative Medicine Service at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and holds the Laurance S. Rockefeller Chair in Integrative Medicine. She also founded the Society for Integrative Oncology, which publishes a medical journal. Cassileth, born Barrie Rabinowitz, obtained her PhD in medical sociology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1978.