ABOUT

Linda Hawes Clever, MD, MACP
is founder and President of RENEW, a not-for-profit aimed at helping devoted people maintain (and regain) their enthusiasm, effectiveness and purpose. She received undergraduate and medical degrees from Stanford University and had residency and fellowship training at Stanford and UCSF in internal medicine, infectious diseases, community medicine and occupational medicine. She is a member of the National Academy of Medicine and founding Chair of the Department of Occupational Health at California Pacific Medical Center.  She was Editor of the Western Journal of Medicine and the first woman Governor of the American College of Physicians, chaired the Board of Governors and then served as Regent. She was a trustee of Stanford University for 14 years and chaired the Board of public broadcasting’s KQED. Dr. Clever is author of numerous papers and The Fatigue Prescription: Four Steps to Renewing Your Energy, Health and Life. 

Dr. Clever likes walks, good conversations, and good cookies. Her husband Jamie was an internist, as is their daughter Sarah, who is on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and also juggles fascinating teen twins.

RENEW’s Board of Directors

  • Toby Adelman, RN, PhD
  • Eliza Lo Chin, MD, MPH
  • Linda Hawes Clever, MD, MACP
  • Brittany Imwalle, MBA
  • Dennis Patterson MHA, D. Ed 
  • Anne Pera, RN

RENEW’s Program Manager

  • Elisha Danmeier

Inspiration

  • John W. Gardner, PhD

RENEW’s Panel of Advisors

  • Robert N. Beck, MS
  • Janet Bickel, MA
  • Roger Bulger, MD
  • Kathleen Burke
  • Margaret Cary, MD, MBA, MPH
  • Lisa Chamberlain, MD
  • Harvey Cohen, MD, PhD
  • Gretchen de Baubigny
  • Ann Eichhorn, MDiv, RN
  • L. William Eichhorn, MDiv
  • William Foege, MD
  • Gail Glasser
  • Kathryn Johnson
  • Deloras Jones, MS, RN
  • Eric Larson, MD
  • Iris Litt, MD
  • Dennis Patterson, MHA, EdD
  • Michael A. Roosevelt, Esq.
  • Amanda Spivey
  • Bruce E. Spivey, MD
  • Marshall C. Turner, MS, MBA
  • Mary Woolley, MA
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RENEW inspires and creates confidence and direction for people who want healthy lives, full of purpose and joy.