Dr. Edward M. Phillips

He serves as Whole Health Medical Director at VA Boston Healthcare System and is integrating Whole Health-lifestyle medicine training for trainees across the VA as National Whole Health Education Champion for Health Professions Trainees. Phillips is Fellow of American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM) and serves on the executive council that developed Exercise is Medicine. He has >100 scientific publications. He serves on the Health Sector and Military Settings Sectors of the US National Physical Activity Plan and is a founding director of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.

 

 His medical school, SUNY Buffalo, honored him with its Distinguished Alumni Award. The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition has recognized him, the ILM and the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative with its Community Leadership Award. He has appeared on Good Morning America, ESPN radio, Huffington Post, Slate, and Time Magazine. He co-hosted the NPR Daily Exercise Podcast, WBUR’s Magic Pill awarded an Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Innovation and has >4.5 million downloads of the sequel podcast “Food, We Need to Talk.” He is co-author of “Food, We Need to Talk” St. Martin’s Press, 2023.