Neha Pathak, MD, FACP, DipABLM, helps to lead WebMD’s Medical Team, which is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of health information on WebMD. As Chief Physician Editor, Health and Lifestyle Medicine, she oversees a national network of physicians who review content across the site and collaborates with the editorial teams that create it, including news, special reports, WebMD Magazine, videos, mobile applications, tools, and health reference content. She also reports on topics at the intersection of lifestyle and environmental impacts on health for WebMD and Medscape.
Pathak is host and production team member for WebMD’s Health Discovered podcast. She also serves as a media spokesperson for WebMD.
Before joining WebMD, Pathak practiced primary care medicine at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and completed the VA Quality Scholars/Quality Improvement Fellowship Program. She is on the faculty of the Atlanta VA Medical Center’s Quality Scholars Program and is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is also a lecturer at the Yale School of Public Health. Her work has been published in medical journals, textbooks, and the lay press.
Pathak is dual board-certified in internal medicine and lifestyle medicine, with a focus on evidence-based nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress management, and other behavior-change strategies that support health and well-being. She is also a Blue Zones certified physician through a partnership between Blue Zones and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM). She earned a BA in psychology/biology from Harvard University and received her MD (with honors in community service) from Weill Cornell Medical College. She completed her internal medicine primary care residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and earned a certificate in climate change and health communication from the Yale School of Public Health. She lives in Atlanta with her husband and children.