Alex Lickerman, M.D.

Dr. Alex Lickerman is a general internist and former Director of Primary Care at the University of Chicago and has been a practicing Buddhist since 1989.

He's had extensive experience treating the "sickest of the sick" in the most compassionate manner possible as well as teaching medical trainees to do the same. His goals as a physician are to be scientifically rigorous, to avoid the pitfalls of common thought errors, and to treat his patients as human beings rather than as diseases.

After seven years of running the Primary Care Group of an internationally renowned academic medical center, he's learned how to ensure not only the delivery of unparalleled medical care but unparalleled customer service. He's also served as the physician champion for the University of Chicago's installation of Epic, a twenty-first century computerized medical information system, serving as a subject matter expert, thought leader, cheerleader, and decision-maker on a project whose budget totaled nearly one hundred million dollars.

Whether presenting in front of medical trainees and professionals or posting on his blog, his goal is to encourage people to explore happiness from a scientific point of view and help them think about life, spirituality, and themselves in ways they never have before. In doing so, he aims to help people from all walks of life to overcome their own weaknesses and become happier.

Dr. Lickerman has also written a television pilot that was optioned by DreamWorks Television, several movie screenplays, and is currently working on a novel. He's also painted several portrait commissions.

His PT blog is Happiness in this World.