Lucille R Marchand Bio

LUCILLE R. MARCHAND, M.D., BSN, FAAHPM

Executive Director, Osher Center; Associate Director, Osher Center Education Core

UW Professor and Chief of Palliative Care, Department of Family Medicine

Director, UW Medical Center's Palliative Care Program

Stuart Farber, M.D., and Annalu Farber Endowed Professor in Palliative Care Education

For more than 25 years, Dr. Lucille Marchand has focused on integrative medicine in her clinical practice offamily medicine, integrative oncology and palliative care. She was clinical director of integrative oncology at the University of Wisconsin Carbone Cancer Center and a clinician at the University of Wisconsin Integrative Medicine Clinic. At the University of Wisconsin, Dr. Marchand also directed Dr. Rachel Remen's "Healer's Art" medical student elective for 11 years. She founded the Meaning in Medicine Group in Madison and continues to be involved in this group. She serves on the Integrative Health Committee at UW Medical Center.

Dr. Marchand is a faculty member in the UW's Cambia Graduate Certificate Program in Palliative Care. She has written extensively on using integrative medicine in the clinical practice of oncology, family medicine and palliative care. Much of Dr. Marchand's research has focused on integrative medicine, including life review, the placebo response, clinician-patient-family communication, use of supplements, and conventional and complementary and alternative medicine practitioner attitudes and working relationships with one another. She presents frequently and is nationally known for her integrative medicine work on clinician well-being and resiliency, integrative oncology, integrative palliative care, humanities in medicine and contemplative practices for clinician well-being, including mindfulness, compassion, self-reflective writing and art.

In 2015, Dr. Marchand was awarded the Stu and Annalu Farber Endowed Fellowship in Palliative Care Education and in 2017 was named the Stu and Annalu Farber Endowed Professor in Palliative Care Education. In 2017, she was awarded the Humanities Award by the Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She has received numerous teaching and writing awards.

Dr. Marchand is board-certified in family medicine, palliative medicine and integrative holistic medicine. She trained in a number of healing modalities, including CAPACITAR (a multicultural education approach to healing trauma) and RISEN (Reinvesting in Spirituality and Ethics in our Networks), and she is a certified yoga teacher. She graduated from the Creighton School of Nursing and from the University of California, San Francisco's School of Medicine. She completed family medicine residency and a fellowship in family therapy and qualitative research at the University of Connecticut.