Alex Lickerman is a primary care physician, former assistant professor of medicine, former director of primary care, and former assistant vice president for Student Health and Counseling Services at the University of Chicago. He currently leads a direct primary care practice in Chicago called ImagineMD. Alex’s first book, The Undefeated Mind: On the Science of Constructing an Indestructible Self, has received numerous favorable reviews from many sources, including Publishers Weekly. A noted speaker and media expert, he has been quoted in Crain’s Chicago Business, Playboy, the Chicago Tribune, Men’s Health, the New York Times, and TIME, and has had articles appear in Psychology Today, Crain’s Chicago Business, USA Today, Slate, the Huffington Post, Counselor Magazine, and Medicine on the Midway. He’s also been a guest on NPR’s On Point. 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. |
