Edward M. Phillips, M.D.

Dr. Phillips received his B.A. from Yale College and his M.D. from SUNY-Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. He completed his specialty training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. Dr. Phillips is now an Instructor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. Dr. Phillips is on staff at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and is Director of Outpatient Medical Services of the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Network in Boston, Massachusetts. He conducts his research work as a Visiting Scientist at the Jean Mayer-USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. He is course director and co-author of the Harvard Medical School Department of Continuing Education online course: “Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine for Weight Management.”

Susan Parks, Ph.D.

Dr. Parks earned an M.S. in Child Development and a PhD. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh. She completed a post-doctoral fellowship in neuropsychology at Harvard Medical School. She is a staff psychologist and Training Director of the Neuropsychology Fellowship at McLean Hospital in Belmont Massachusetts. She is an Instructor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. She has completed training as a Life Coach.

GUEST FACULTY

Prof. Adrian Kennedy

Prof. Adrian Kennedy is founder and Managing Director, Lifetime Wellness Rx International Limited, an Apollo Hospitals Group Company. He has a PhD. from the USA in Holistic Health and over 30 years of working experience in the Hospital & Corporate Environment. As an academic, he has created Post graduate diploma programs in Preventive and Promotive Health Care (PPHC), Integrated Medicine & Wellness Management under the Apollo Hospitals Educational and Research Foundation and is the Director of these post graduate programs.He also holds a Patent for the Computerized Health Scan and has used the product on over 100,000 clients in Lifestyle Modification Centres in the various Apollo Hospitals.He has authored `Fitness a Way of Life’ and thereafter written a series of 8 Books for the PPHC program.

Prof. Kennedy is a sought after speaker who has conducted over 100 seminars in Lifestyle Medicine worldwide.

Savita Date Menon is a Clinical Psychologist trained at Mumbai University, India. She holds a Diploma in Preventive Health and has worked in the field for over 18 years. She has also pioneered Lifestyle Centres in over 15 Hospitals in India, Dubai as well as Sri Lanka.She conducts Stress and Health Management Workshops and has undertaken several training programs for Hospitals and Corporates in India and abroad. Prof. Menon is Faculty for Health Psychology and Stress Management in the Apollo Hospitals Education and Research Foundation and writes a weekly column for the Times of India. Several of her articles are published abroad.