Michael F. Holick, Ph.D., M.D

Michael F. Holick, Ph.D., M.D. is Professor of Medicine, Physiology and Biophysics; Director of the General Clinical Research Center; and Director of the Bone Health Care Clinic and the Heliotherapy, Light, and Skin Research Center at Boston University Medical Center. 

Dr. Holick has made numerous contributions to the field of the biochemistry, physiology, metabolism, and photobiology of vitamin D for human nutrition.  He has helped increase awareness in the pediatric and medical community regarding vitamin D deficiency in the US population, and its role in causing metabolic bone disease, and osteoporosis in adults. 

Dr. Holick is a Diplomat of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, a member of the American Academy of Dermatology and the American Association of Physicians.  He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the American Skin Association’s Psoriasis Research Achievement Award, the American College of Nutrition award, the Robert H. Herman Memorial Award in Clinical Nutrition from the American Society for Clinical Nutrition, the Annual General Clinical Research Centers’ Program Award for Excellence in Clinical Research and most recently the Linus Pauling Award for Functional Medicine. 

Dr. Holick serves on a number national committees and editorial boards and has authored more than 300 peer-reviewed publications, and written more than 220 review articles, as well as numerous book chapters.  He has acted as editor and/or co-editor on 8 books, and has written a book entitled The UV Advantage, published by ibooks, New York.

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