Dr David Servan-Schreiber was a French-born psychiatrist and neuroscientist who was previously clinical professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and cofounded the Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. One of the original seven members of the US board of Doctors Without Borders, he helped provide medical and psychiatric relief in Kurdistan, Guatemala, India, Tajikistan and Kosovo, and developed mental health interventions for victims of crises, while also training therapists in crisis areas. His book Anticancer (2007, updated 2010), about the body's natural defences against tumour growth and how to use them for prevention and enhancement of conventional treatments, was an international success. After a twenty year battle with cancer, David Servan-Schreiber passed away in July 2011.