Well-Being from the inside Out: Working toward a Healthy Body, Peaceful Mind, and Joyful Heart

Dr. Beth Frates, MD, is a trained physiatrist and health and wellness coach with expertise in lifestyle medicine. She is an award-winning teacher at Harvard Medical School, where she is an assistant clinical professor. Frates is one of the first fellows of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and a pioneer in lifestyle medicine. She was voted president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) in August 2020 and will serve until 2022. She authored a lifestyle medicine syllabus, which can be downloaded through the ACLM website, to serve as a template for other instructors and professors. Frates co-authored The Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: An Introduction to the Power of Healthy Habits, which was ranked in the top 20 by Book Authority for medical books released in 2018. To accompany the syllabus and handbook, she also co-created Lifestyle Medicine 101, a full college curriculum with 12 weeks of PowerPoints and a teacher's manual, which is free through the ACLM website. Frates co-authored The Teen Lifestyle Medicine Handbook, (October 2020), which when paired with the teen curriculum consisting of a teacher's manual and 12 PowerPoint decks can be used to teach and empower middle-school and high school students to adopt and sustain healthy habits. As director of wellness programming at the Stroke Institute for Research and Recovery at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, Frates has created and implemented a 12-step wellness program, PAVING the Path to Wellness™ for patients and providers. Most recently, she co-authored the book PAVING the Path to Wellness Workbook: A Guide to Thriving with a Healthy Body, Peaceful Mind and Joyful Heart. As of fall 2020, Frates is the director of lifestyle medicine and wellness for the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital. Frates has her own lifestyle medicine consulting and coaching practice where she sees patient one-on-one and in groups.