Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Frates is an award-winning professor at Harvard Medical School, one of the first fellows of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and a pioneer in lifestyle medicine. She developed and taught a college lifestyle medicine curriculum at the Harvard Extension School in 2014, which remains one of the most well-received programs offered at the school. She is currently the president of ACLM and the director of lifestyle medicine and wellness for the Department of Surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital.
As director of wellness programming at the Spaulding Stroke Research and Recovery Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, Dr. Frates created and implemented a 12-step wellness program, PAVING the Path to Wellness™, for patients and providers. She also co-created Lifestyle Medicine 101, a full college curriculum with 12 weeks of presentations and a teacher's manual, which is free and accessible to educators through ACLM. In the past five years, Dr. Frates has coauthored four books on lifestyle medicine: The Lifestyle Medicine Handbook; The Teen Lifestyle Medicine Handbook; PAVING the Path to Wellness Workbook: A Guide To Thriving With a Healthy Body, Peaceful Mind and Joyful Heart; and PAVING a Woman's Path through Menopause and Beyond. She has also co-authored numerous journal articles on lifestyle medicine topics, including health and wellness coaching, laughter, yoga, group lifestyle medicine interventions, lifestyle medicine interest groups in medical school, medical education, COVID-19 and lifestyle medicine, meditation and walking meetings for weight loss. Dr. Frates has her own lifestyle medicine consulting/coaching practice.
