Bio

Alex Lickerman is a physician, former Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director of Primary Care, and current Assistant Vice President for Student Health and Counseling Services at the University of Chicago. He’s also been a practicing Buddhist since 1989.

Eastern philosophy has met Western science in a uniquely harmonious blend within Alex’s mind and heart, in which an expert knowledge of the most up-to-date scientific studies resides peacefully (for the most part) next to the accumulated wisdom of 2,500 years of Buddhist thinking.

Alex has had extensive experience treating the sickest of the sick in the most compassionate manner possible as well as teaching medical trainees to do the same at an internationally renowned academic medical center located in the heart of one of the poorest neighborhoods in Chicago.

Alex has extensive speaking experience, having given talks at medical conferences throughout his career including a talk to an audience of over 3,000 at a Pri-Med Conference put on jointly by the University of Chicago and Northwestern University. He’s appeared on the television program On Call With Dr. Michael Breen and on Milt Rosenberg’s nationally syndicated radio show, Extension 720.

Alex has been quoted in Crain’s Chicago Business, Playboy, The Chicago Tribune, and TIME, and has had articles appear in Psychology Today and Medicine on the Midway.  He’s also written a television pilot called Sessions that was optioned by DreamWorks Television, as well as several movie screenplays, including an adaptation of Milton’s Paradise Lost.