Edward M. Phillips, MD, is Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and is Founder and Director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital www.InstituteofLifestyleMedicine.org. In his work at the ILM he has directed 21 live CME programs starting in India in 2006 and continuing with twice yearly courses sponsored by the Harvard Medical School Department of Global and Continuing Education plus 7 online CME modules completed by over 15,000 clinicians from 115 countries.
In 2015 Phillips began his role as Chief of the Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Services at the VA Boston Healthcare System. Additionally, Phillips is a Fellow of American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM) and served on the executive council that developed the Exercise is Medicine global initiative. He is co-author of Organize Your Emotions, Optimize Your Life: Decode Your Emotional DNA and Thrive (Harvard Health Publications, William Morrow, 2016) and ACSM’s Exercise is Medicine, A Clinician's Guide to Exercise Prescription (Wolters-Kluwer, 2009) as well as >75 scientific publications. He serves on the Advisory Board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and on the Health Sector of the United States National Physical Activity Plan. He is co-founder and co-director of the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative “LMEd” www.LifestyleMedicineEducation.org which is working to incorporate nutrition, exercise, self-care and behavior change into US medical school curricula. He is integrating lifestyle medicine training for health professional trainees across the Veterans Health Administration in his role as National Whole Health Education Champion for Professional Trainees.
He is site-PI for the Health Resources Services Administration Preventive Medicine Training Grant (2010-2013) (2014-2018) (2019-2023) educating Yale Preventive Medicine residents in Lifestyle Medicine. He is a founding committee member of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
Phillips is an active clinician and researcher who speaks and consults nationally guiding a broad-based effort to reduce lifestyle-related death, disease, and costs through clinician directed interventions with patients. His medical school, SUNY Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences honored him with its Distinguished Alumni Award for his accomplishments in Lifestyle Medicine. The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition has recognized both Dr. Phillips and the ILM with its Community Leadership Award. He appears on national media including Good Morning America, ESPN radio, Huffington Post, Slate, and Time Magazine. He co-hosted the NPR Daily Exercise Podcast, WBUR’s Magic Pill which was awarded an Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Innovation.
