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Dr. Linda Clever is President of RENEW and is the founding Chair of the Department of Occupational Health at California Pacific Medical Center and former Editor of the Western Journal of Medicine. She received undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University. After interning at Stanford, she had several years of medical residency and fellowships at Stanford and the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Clever is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational Medicine. In 1970, Dr. Clever became the first Medical Director of the teaching clinic at St. Mary's Hospital in San Francisco where she started patient education and nurse practitioner training and research programs. In 1977, she started the Department of Occupational Health at the then-Pacific Medical Center and began her activities in the American College of Physicians in which she served as Governor, Chair of the Board of Governors, and Regent. She is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and the Western Association of Physicians, and is Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF. She has chaired the Boards of KQED and University High School and has served on numerous other boards including the Stanford University Board of Trustees. She is president of the Western Association of Physicians and serves on the Boards of the Buck Institute for Research in Aging and the Northern California Presbyterian Homes and Services. She has written numerous papers, chapters, articles, and editorials.