Virtual Seminar: Lifestyle Medicine Groups with Dr. Jacob Mirsky

A single session discussing Lifestyle Medicine GMVs with the co-founder and Medical Director of MGH’s Healthy Lifestyle Program, Jacob Mirsky, MD, MA, DipABLM.

Jacob Mirsky, MD, MA, DipABLM is a primary care physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Revere HealthCare Center. Dr. Mirsky attended medical school at the University of California San Francisco and completed residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston as part of the Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates primary care track. He is double board-certified in Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.

Dr. Mirsky views healthy lifestyle changes, through patient education and empowerment, as the cornerstone of health. In addition to his primary care practice, he leads Lifestyle Medicine group medical visits (also called shared medical appointments) in primary care for symptom management and disease prevention. Dr. Mirsky co-founded and is the Medical Director of the MGH Division of General Internal Medicine Healthy Lifestyle Program (HLP); the HLP has a vision of establishing healthy lifestyle change as the standard of care for preventing and treating chronic disease. He has received several awards to spread lifestyle-focused group medical visits at MGH, including the MGH Department of Medicine Phoenix Project Award and the MGH Springboard Studio iSolve Grand Prize. He also serves as the Assistant Course Director of Harvard Medical School’s Herbert Benson, MD Course in Mind Body Medicine, and he is the MGH Representative on the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Health Systems Council.