With 25 years of experience in academic preventive cardiology, Dr. Stephen Devries serves as executive director of the Gaples Institute, an educational nonprofit dedicated to advancing nutrition and lifestyle in medicine. He has written and lectured extensively on integrating nutrition into medical education and practice. 

Under his leadership, the Gaples Institute’s nutrition course for health professionals is required at 17 medical schools and has been completed by more than 13,000 clinicians. 

Dr. Devries is also an Adjunct Associate Professor of Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he teaches Integrating Nutrition into Clinical Medicine: The Role of Health Professionals as Change Agents to Harvard public health and medical students.