Melissa Sundermann

Physician, Lifestyle Medicine Leader, "Doctor Outdoors"

Melissa Sundermann is a double board-certified physician in internal medicine and lifestyle medicine with more than 25 years of experience in medical practice. She has advanced training in integrative medicine from the University of Michigan and has completed a professional training program in mind-body medicine through the Center for Mind-Body Medicine. As "Doctor Outdoors," she is a leading expert in nature as medicine and serves as the founding chair of the Nature as Medicine subcommittee for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She is also the chair of the Global Wellness Institute's Lifestyle Medicine Initiative. Currently, Sundermann is the medical director of lifestyle medicine for Corewell Health System, and she also serves as an advisor for Social Prescribing USA, Project Reconnect at UCLA and InCaria — lending her expertise to initiatives at the forefront of community health, integrative healing and innovative well-being solutions. Sundermann is the author of Doctor Outdoors' Guide to Nature and Lifestyle Medicine and a lifelong outdoor enthusiast.