Dr. Mirsky has a proven track record building and scaling boundary-pushing clinical programs.

Lifestyle Medicine Shared Medical Appointments

As the co-founder and Medical Director of the award-winning MGH Healthy Lifestyle Program, Dr. Mirsky has overseen the growth of the largest Lifestyle Medicine Shared Medical Appointment (LMSMA) clinical program in the country. The Program now includes 17 primary care physicians and nurse practitioners, as well as 13 specialists in the MGH Department of Medicine, who lead virtual LMSMAs. Dr. Mirsky has spent years building and refining LMSMA curricula, trainings, and workflows with the MGH Healthy Lifestyle Program team - several of these are now licensed by Mass General Brigham.

Food Is Medicine

Dr. Mirsky is also the Medical Director of the MGH Revere Food Pantry, which is the first plant-based food pantry in the country and includes a state-of-the-art teaching kitchen.

Health and Wellness Coaching

The MGH Healthy Lifestyle Program that Dr. Mirsky leads fully integrates five health and wellness coaches into every LMSMA.

Publications

Dr. Mirsky has published multiple articles in recent years on lifestyle medicine, shared medical appointments, and “Food Is Medicine.” These include a retrospective study on a novel Lifestyle Medicine Shared Medical Appointment (LMSMA) program that he co-developed for patients with hypertension, as well as a two-year follow-up study. He also co-authored a survey study on patient-reported benefits from participation in the MGH Heathy Lifestyle Program.

Dr. Mirsky has also published an analysis of the transition to virtual LMSMAs during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a perspective piece on leveraging big data to harness healthy lifestyle changes, and an opinion piece on the value of LMSMAs for chronic disease care.

He also contributed to a case study on the development of the MGH Revere Food Pantry as well as health benefits of pediatric patients receiving food from the pantry.

Ongoing Research

Dr. Mirsky is currently the co-Principle Investigator on multiple research studies at MGH on LMSMAs, “Food is Medicine,” and culinary medicine.

Primary Care

Dr. Mirsky is passionate about providing compassionate and comprehensive care for underserved patient populations and has spent his entire career at the MGH Revere HealthCare Center.

Lifestyle Medicine Shared Medical Appointments

He also leads weekly Lifestyle Medicine Shared Medical Appointments (LMSMAs) in the MGH Healthy Lifestyle Program.

Talks

Dr. Mirsky has presented and led workshops at several national conferences, including multiple annual American College of Lifestyle Medicine conferences and Harvard Medical School Herbert Benson Courses in Mind-Body Medicine.

Service

He is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, where he serves as the MGH Representative on the Health Systems Council. Dr. Mirsky currently serves as a member on the Mass General Brigham Nutrition Security and Equity Workgroup and the Greater Boston Food Bank Health and Research Council. He has previously served as a member on the White House Office of Public Engagement Health Equity Leaders Roundtable Series and the MGH Executive Committee on Community Health Sub-Committee on Social Determinants of Health.

Training

He has spent his entire medical career at some of the top hospitals in the country: University of California San Francisco for medical school, Brigham and Women’s Hospital for internal medicine residency, and now MGH.