Dr. Stephen Devries Executive Director, nonprofit Gaples Institute and Adjunct Associate Professor of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Dr. Stephen Devries is a preventive cardiologist and Executive Director of the Gaples Institute, an educational nonprofit with the mission of advancing the role of nutrition and lifestyle in medicine. Dr. Devries has also been appointed Adjunct Associate Professor of Nutrition in the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Devries attended medical school at the University of Michigan where he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He received Cardiovascular subspecialty training at Washington University in St. Louis and later completed a Fellowship in the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. He previously served as the Director of the Outpatient Heart Center at the University of Illinois and later, as Associate Professor at Northwestern University. In his primary role as Executive Director of the nonprofit Gaples Institute, Dr. Devries is the course director for a condensed online nutrition course for health professionals—a groundbreaking educational tool that is now required in the curriculum of leading medical schools and residency programs and is a widely acclaimed CME resource for practicing physicians. The course has been taken by over 4,000 medical students and clinicians. In pursuit of the Gaples Institute mission to advance public nutrition education, Dr. Devries has also authored the award-winning patient nutrition learning program, Nutrition for Optimal Health. Dr. Devries teaches a course at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, “Integrating Nutrition into Clinical Medicine: The Role of Health Professionals as Change Agents.” He is also the co-leader, along with Dr. Walter Willett, of the Nutrition Education Working Group, a multidisciplinary cohort of leading scientists, nutrition educators, and policy experts. The group meets regularly at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for the purpose of exploring ways to strengthen nutrition education in all levels of medical training.