Gia Merlo

Dr. Gia Merlo is a clinical professor of psychiatry at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, associate editor of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, and at the American Psychiatric Association she is a distinguished fellow and the founding chair of the Lifestyle Psychiatry Caucus. She has published dozens of peer-reviewed articles, chapters in books, and published four academic books for healthcare professionals with Oxford University Press and Taylor and Francis.

Merlo has been curious about and interested in lifestyle interventions, especially concerning the overlap of mental and physical health. She is thrilled to write a self-help book that is firmly grounded in science. In this book, the science is drawn from psychology, psychiatry, and lifestyle medicine and her personal narratives are sprinkled throughout in an accessible and helpful way.

In her spare time, Dr. Merlo enjoys playing tennis, not taking herself too seriously as she re-learns how to play violin (after many, many years), and hiking in New York and New Jersey. She finds great joy watching a good comedy that allows her to fulfill her daily health prescription dose of laughing out loud.