Dael Waxman, M.D. is the Interim Chair of the Dept. of Family Medicine at Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, NC.  Additionally, he serves as Medical Director for Patient-Centered Programming at Carolinas Medical Center-Mercy.  In addition to his medical background, he has received training in and has been integrating family therapy, clinical hypnosis and other modalities of mind/body medicine into teaching and practice for over 20 years.  An Associate Professor of Family Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill, he has taught regionally, nationally and internationally on: family influences on health, physician-patient communication, patient-centered care, collaboration between mental health and primary care, physician wellness, and mind/body medicine.