David M. Eisenberg is an American physician, alternative medicine researcher, and the Bernard Osher Distinguished Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.[1] He is also the founder of the Osher Center for Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies, a healthcare clinic associated with Brigham and Women's Hospital,[2] and served as its director from 2000 to 2010.[3] He is also the founder of the "Healthy Kitchens/Healthy Lives" initiative, which, according to the New York Times, aims "to tear down the firewall between “healthy” and “ crave-able” cuisine."
Eisenberg grew up on Long Island, the son of a baker father and a lawyer mother.[4] He attended Harvard College and Harvard Medical School.[1] In 1979, while a student at Harvard Medical School, he became the first American to travel to China on a medical exchange program.[5]
Eisenberg is known for a study he published in the New England Journal of Medicine, which found that one in three Americans used some kind of alternative medical treatment.[2] [6]
Eisenberg enjoys baking, which he first became interested in as a child helping prepare food in his father's bakery.[7] He is married to Rabbi Elaine S. Zecher and has three children, Jacob, Benjamin, and Naomi.[8]