Professor Chantal Berna Renella is an internist trained in psychosomatic medicine and pain therapy. She uses hypnosis in her consultations with patients suffering from chronic pain or functional disorders. She heads the Center for Integrative and Complementary Medicine (CEMIC) at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV). There, she is developing the integration of hypnosis and other complementary methods in an academic hospital, at the clinical as well as at the research and teaching levels.