General Information

What is Lifestyle Medicine?

  • Lifestyle Medicine aims to reduce the prevalence of lifestyle-related disease and mortality in our society through physician-directed interventions with patients.
  • Lifestyle Medicine goals are accomplished through a broad-based collaborative effort to transform the practice of primary care medicine.

How can the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine help you?

  • Through Research
  • Building Local Collaborations (adding local doctors to the advisory boards of health clubs)
  • Educating Local Physicians on Exercise Prescription
  • Standardizing the Quality of Health Clubs
  • Improving Physician Confidence in Health Clubs
Leadership, Staff, & Advisors

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Contact Information

Edward M. Phillips, MD
Director, Institute of Lifestyle Medicine
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network
65 Walnut Street, Suite 260, Wellesley, MA 02481-2185
+1 (781) 234-1229 | ephillips1@partners.org


Anna Rubin
Education & Outreach Coordinator, Institute of Lifestyle Medicine
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network
65 Walnut Street, Suite 260, Wellesley, MA 02481-2185
+1 (781) 234-1205 | agrubin@partners.org


Mary Alice Hanford
Academic & Research Administrator, Institute of Lifestyle Medicine
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network
570 Worcester Road, Framingham, MA 01702-5311
+1 (508) 532-4230 | mhanford@partners.org


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