Dr. Holick has made numerous contributions to the field of the biochemistry, physiology, metabolism, and photobiology of vitamin D for human nutrition. Dr. Holick has established global recommendations advising sunlight exposure as an integral source of vitamin D. He has helped increase awareness in the pediatric and medical communities regarding vitamin D deficiency pandemic, and its role in causing not only metabolic bone disease, and osteoporosis in adults, but increasing risk of children and adults developing preeclampsia, common deadly cancers, schizophrenia, infectious diseases including TB and influenza, autoimmune diseases including type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, type 2 diabetes, stroke and heart disease.
Dr. Holick is a Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, and a member of the American Association of Physicians. He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the General Clinical Research Centers Program Award for Excellence in Clinical Research from NIH, American College of Nutrition’s Communication Media Award, Best Docs in America, the Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award from the Institute for Functional Medicine and the Linus Pauling Prize for Human Nutrition. Dr. Holick serves on a number of national committees and editorial boards and has organized and/or co-chaired several international symposia. He served as the chair for the Endocrine Society’s Practice Guidelines on Vitamin D. He has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed publications, and written more than 200 review articles, as well as numerous book chapters. He has acted as editor and/or co-editor on 13 books, and has written The UV Advantage in 2004 and The Vitamin D Solution in 2010 and helped develop the dminder.info app.
Professor
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics
Member
Boston University
Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research
Graduate Faculty (Primary Mentor of Grad Students)
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, Graduate Medical Sciences
Director
Boston University Medical Campus
General Clinical Research Unit
Director
Boston Medical Center
Bone Health Care Clinic
Director of the Vitamin D, Skin and Bone Research Laboratory
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Medicine
Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition & Weight Management
2020 Boston Magazine :
Boston’s Magazine Top Doc – Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Weight Management
2019 Expertscape #1 Worldwide Expert in Vitamin D Deficiency
2019 American Journal of Epidemiology & Society for Epidemiologic Research 2018 Article of the Year: “Di
2019 Expertscape #1 Worldwide Expert in Sunlight
2019 Orthomolecular Medicine Hall of Fame
2019 Fellow American Society of Clinical Nutrition
2017 PLOS ONE top 25% most cited article “Temporal relationship between vitamin D status and PTH in the
2017 PLOS ONE top 10% most cited article “Influence of Vitamin D Status and Vitamin D3 Supplementation
2016-2019 Americas Top Doctors:
America's Top Doctors
2016 American Registry “Best of the Best”
2015 EVIDAS:
Honorary Award for the Outstanding Contribution to the Development of Knowledge and Dissemination of
2014 Boston University School of Medicine:
Educator of the Year in Graduate Medical Sciences, Master’s Degree Programs
2014 America’s Top Physicians Award
2014 Thomas Reuters World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds, Clinical Medicine
2014 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research :
Louis Avioli Award
2014 American Association of Clinical Chemistry’s Outstanding Speaker Award
2012 Boston University Admissions Committee:
Distinguished Service Award
2011 Boston Magazine :
Top Docs in Endocrinology
2011 Clark T. Sawin Memorial Lecture, The Endocrine Society:
Delbert A. Fisher Research Scholar
2011 American College of Nutrition’s Communication Media Award
2011-2015 Castle Connolly :
Best Doctors in America
2010 The Chester S. Keefer MD Society
2010 AACC New York Metro Section:
2010 Van Slyke Award
2010 AACC Outstanding Speaker Award for 2010
2009 The Linus Pauling Institute 2009 Diet & Optimum Health Conference Portland OR:
Linus Pauling Prize and Lecture: A D-Lightful Vitamin for Health
2009 The North American Menopause Society:
NAMS/Upsher-Smith Laboratories, Inc. Vitamin D Research Award
2009 19th International Congress of Nutrition, Bangkok, Thailand:
DSM Innovation in Nutrition Award
2009 AACC Outstanding Speaker Award for 2009
2008 24th Annual Rheumatology on the Beach, San Destin FL:
Outstanding Speaker Award Arthritis Foundation (AL Chapter) Featured Speaker
2007 The Institute for Functional Medicine:
Linus Pauling Functional Medicine Award
2007 CSEM Eli Lilly Award Lecture
2006 Annual General Clinical Research Centers Program Award for Excellence in Clinical Research
2006-2016 Boston’s Magazine Top Doc – Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Weight Management
2003 American Society for Clinical Nutrition:
Robert H. Herman Memorial Award in Clinical Nutrition
2002 American College of Nutrition:
ACN Award
2001 Boston Magazine:
Top Docs for Women
2000 American Skin Associations:
Psoriasis Research Achievement Award
1994 American Society for Clinical Nutrition:
McCollum Award
1991 Osborne and Mendel Award
1989 Arnold-Rickle Prize for Research in UV Radiation and Vitamin D Metabolism
1986 Seton Hall University:
Stanley S. Bergen Award for Excellence in the Medical Field
1986 National Institutes of Health:
Merit Award
1985 Pisa Medallion for Excellence in Science
1983 American Institute of Nutrition:
Mead Johnson Award
1981 Ten Outstanding Young Leaders Award
1980 Fuller Albright Young Investigator Award
1974 University of Wisconsin, Madison WI:
Charles Busch Award
1972 M.D. Anderson Hospital:
Wilson S. Stone Memorial Award
1971 American Oil Chemists Society:
Honored Student Award