Eva M. Selhub, MD, a passionate, articulate advocate of Mind/Body Medicine, enjoys a flourishing career as a speaker, teacher and media spokesperson as well as clinical success treating patients who have triumphed over serious medical conditions and destructive emotional patterns.
A staff member of Harvard Medical School, Dr. Selhub served from 1999 until the end of 2007 as Medical Director of Mind/Body Medical Institute founded by the pioneer of mind/body research, Herbert Benson, MD. And now part of the world renowned Massachusetts General Hospital - newly named The Benson-Henry Institute for Mind/Body Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (BHI). Dr. Selhub now serves as Senior Physician for BHI.
She has lectured throughout the United States and in Europe and trained healthcare professionals from all over the world. As an expert in the stress physiology and the mind/body approach to patient care, she has been involved in the training of healthcare professionals from all over the world. Dr. Selhub’s lectures are based on the mind/body connection, the physiology of stress and coping, their relationship to illness, and on enhancing the love that heals.
In her clinical practice through Alight Medicine, Dr. Selhub adopts an integrated approach to health and well-being, using both Western and Eastern mind and body techniques in her approach to healing disease and creating optimum health. She emphasizes the mental, emotional, and spiritual elements of physical conditions using her proprietary and practical method for activating and coordinating the mind, heart, body and spirit toward healing. She incorporates the use of her highly-developed intuitive skills into her work and teaches others to recognize and trust their own intuitive abilities.
Dr. Selhub’s much anticipated first book, The Love Response, was published by Ballantine Books, division of Random House Publishing, in early 2009.
Dr. Selhub has produced two audio CDs, “Finding Stillness” and “Relax into Love,” available on Amazon.com. Two brand new CDs, "Ten Minutes to Relax: Experience the Love Response" and "Ten Minutes to Relax: Living the Love Response," are produced by The Relaxation Company and distributed by Simon and Schuster.
In addition to appearing on national TV and radio programs, Dr. Selhub has been featured in publications such as Self Magazine, USA Today, The Boston Globe, the New York Times and more. She is also a sought-after speaker at renowned institutions of learning such as Tufts Medical School, MIT, and Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Selhub received her B.A. from Tufts University and her M.D. from Boston University School of Medicine in 1994. She did post-doctoral work in Internal Medicine at Boston Medical Center.