Larry Scherwitz

Larry Scherwitz, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, trained in psychophysiology at Harvard Medical School, and in behavioral medicine at the University of Wisconsin. He is an international research scientist who has specialized in mind-body research, Lifestyle Medicine, and evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine. His research career includes Director of Research and Co-Principal Investigator with Dean Ornish, M.D. on his...See more

Larry Scherwitz, Ph.D., received his doctorate in Social Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, trained in psychophysiology at Harvard Medical School, and in behavioral medicine at the University of Wisconsin. He is an international research scientist who has specialized in mind-body research, Lifestyle Medicine, and evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine. His research career includes Director of Research and Co-Principal Investigator with Dean Ornish, M.D. on his heart-disease reversal research, plus research on seven comprehensive Lifestyle Medicine programs with heart patients and their families-four in the United States, three in Europe. Larry's more recent research includes his groundbreaking discovery linking self-involvement to risk of heart attack and death from heart attack, and Co-Principal Investigator on the Whole Person Integrative Eating model and program. Larry has presented his research on self-involvement to His Holiness the Dalai Lama at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City. His research has been published in a plethora of prestigious medical journals, from the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet to Psychosomatic Medicine. Larry is married to co-author Deborah Kesten, M.P.H. Website: www.MakeWeightLossLast.com; blog: www.IntegrativeEating.com. See less