Benjamin Kligler, MD, MPH

Dr. Kligler is a board-certified family physician and nationally recognized leader in whole health and complementary and integrative medicine. As executive director of the VA Office of Patient Centered Care & Cultural Transformation, he led efforts to advance the Whole Health model across the VA healthcare system.

Dr. Kligler is a professor of family and community medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and has held numerous influential roles in integrative medicine education and research, including founding medical director of the Continuum Center for Health and Healing. He has also served in national leadership positions with the Academic Consortium for Integrative Health & Medicine and the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health at the National Institutes of Health.