Sharon Horesh Bergquist
Physician and lifestyle medicine researcher
Sharon Horesh Bergquist is an internal medicine physician and scientist working in lifestyle medicine. She wrote The Stress Paradox.
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About Sharon Horesh Bergquist
Sharon Horesh Bergquist is an internal medicine physician and scientist who works in lifestyle medicine, a field that uses evidence-based changes in daily habits to prevent and manage disease. She was the first director of the Emory Lifestyle Medicine & Wellness program. She has helped lead clinical trials of lifestyle interventions, and her work has included identifying early warning markers of illnesses such as Alzheimer's and cancer. She studied molecular biophysics and biochemistry at Yale University, earned her medical degree at Harvard Medical School, and completed her internal medicine residency at Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston. Her peers have voted her one of Atlanta's Top Doctors more than once. She made a TED-Ed video about how stress affects the body, which has passed eight million views and is available in 35 languages. Her book in our catalog is The Stress Paradox.