Travis Lane Stork

Stork graduated magna cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society from Duke University, and earned his medical degree with honors from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.[1][2] He thereafter began an emergency medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.[3]

During his residency, Stork appeared on Season 8 of The Bachelor. During the season finale of the show, Stork chose schoolteacher Sarah Stone, who coincidentally lived only a few blocks away from his Nashville residence. However, only one week after the show's pre-taped finale aired, the couple announced that their relationship was already over.[4] He completed his residency, then practiced medicine in the emergency departments at Vanderbilt and a hospital in Colorado.[2][3]

Stork was a host on The Doctors, a Los Angeles-based daytime medical/talk show, beginning with its debut in September 2008 and continuing until September 2020 when the show switched to a single-host format.[5] On the show, Stork led a panel of three other physicians from different fields (pediatrics, plastic surgery and obstetrics/gynecology) who discussed health issues and answered audience questions.[6] The idea came from a series of segments that were featured on Dr. Phil, to which Stork was also a frequent contributor.[1][7][8]

The show won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Informative in 2010.[9]

A 2014 study in the British Medical Journal determined that "evidence supported 63%, contradicted 14%, and was not found for 24%" of recommendations made by the panel of doctors, and that "the public should be skeptical about recommendations made on medical talk shows."[10]

In October 2013, Stork joined telehealth company MDLIVE as chairman of its Medical Advisory Board.[11] As of March 2015, he was no longer affiliated with the company.[12]

Stork has published several books for the general public about health,[13] which includes The Lean Belly Prescription and The Doctor's Diet, and both had made the New York Times Best Seller list in the "Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous" category.[14][15]

Stork grew up in Missouri and attended Parkway West High School in Ballwin, Missouri.[16] In an interview with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he said that his parents were Midwestern farmers and that he was the first doctor in his family.[6] He married pediatrician Charlotte Brown on 30 June 2012.[17] They divorced on 25 March 2015. He then married his girlfriend of three years, Parris Bell, on 3 August 2019.[18] On 17 June 2020, Stork and Bell welcomed their first child together, a son.[19]

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