Steve Devries

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Dr. Devries is a preventive cardiologist and executive director of the nonprofit Gaples Institute, an educational nonprofit with the mission of advancing the role of nutrition and lifestyle in health care. The Gaples Institute has developed award-winning, richly interactive continuing nutrition education for physicians in all stages of medical training. Dr. Devries is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he teaches the course: Integrating Nutrition Into Clinical Medicine: The Role of Physicians as Change Agents. Dr. Devries attended medical school at the University of Michigan, received Cardiovascular subspecialty training at Washington University in St. Louis, and completed a Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. Dr. Devries authored What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Cholesterol and co-edited the textbook Integrative Cardiology with Dr. James Dalen. He is an invited author to both the most widely read textbook in conventional cardiology as well as the leading textbook in integrative medicine. Dr. Devries lectures internationally on the importance of nutrition and lifestyle in medicine, with nutrition and health presentations in venues that range from communities to the Royal Society of Medicine in London. Dr. Stephen Devries and his work in nutrition and integrative care have been featured on National Public Radio and PBS.

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