William Sears, MD, FRCP, has been advising busy parents on how to raise healthier families for more than 50 years, and now focuses his attention to the specialty of lifestyle medicine. He is the co-founder of AskDrSears.com and the Dr. Sears Wellness Institute, which has certified over 12,000 Health Coaches around the world. He received his medical training at Harvard's Boston Children's Hospital and Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children. He has served as a voluntary professor at the University of Toronto, University of South Carolina, University of Southern California's Keck School of Medicine, and University of California, Irvine. A father of 8 children, he and his wife Martha have written more than 45 books on parenting, nutrition, and healthy aging. Dr. Sears and his contribution to family health were featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in May 2012. He is noted for his science-made-simple-and-fun approach to family health.
