Sharon Bergquist, MD

Sharon Horesh Bergquist, MD is a physician-scientist and associate professor at Emory School of Medicine. Her groundbreaking work focuses on stress resilience, disease prevention, and longevity through precision lifestyle medicine. She has led numerous pioneering clinical trials, including the Emory Healthy Aging Study and the NIH-funded Emory Healthy Brain Study. She has received over forty patient care awards, has authored and presented more than 60 articles and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals and at scientific conferences, and has been featured in over 300 podcasts and media segments, including Good Morning America, CNN, ABC News, The Wall Street Journal, and NPR. She is the author of Plantology: The Science of Plant-Based Eating (2023) and The Stress Paradox: Why You Need Stress to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier (HarperCollins, March 2025). Her popular TED-Ed video on how stress affects the body has been viewed over nine million times and translated into 35 languages. She received her Bachelor of Science in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale College, her medical degree from Harvard Medical School, and completed her internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital.