Jacob Mirsky, MD, MA is a primary care physician at the Massachusetts General Hospital Revere HealthCare Center and a consultation physician at the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine. 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. In addition to his primary care practice, he leads virtual group visits (also called shared medical appointments) in primary care focused on healthy lifestyle change for symptom management and disease prevention. He helped open the MGH Revere Food Pantry in 2019, which provides free plant-based foods to patients with food insecurity, and he currently serves as its Medical Director. Dr. Mirsky also founded and is the Medical Director of the Division of General Internal Medicine Healthy Lifestyle Program (HLP). The HLP has a mission to establish healthy lifestyle change as the standard of care for preventing and treating chronic disease.

In this conversation Dr. Mirsky talks about the idea, background and concept of shared medical appointments, also called group visits. Dr. Mirsky discusses the benefits of group visits for both - the patient and the provider - especially for managing and reversing conditions like hypertension, type II diabetes, and helping with weightloss through lifestyle medicine. He touches on how it enhances patient experience, allowing them more time with provider and building a support group; and contributes to physician satisfaction potentially counteracting burnout. Tune in to learn more about the evolution of the program and the success stories of patients who participate!

To learn more, please visit:

• Website: https://www.massgeneral.org/medicine/internal-medicine/healthy-lifestyle-program
• Twitter: @DrJacobMirsky

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