# Lisa Belisle, MD > Lisa Belisle, MD, PhD, MPH, MBA is a board-certified family physician and preventive medicine specialist on the coast of Maine whose clinical practice integrates Western medicine with acupuncture, Five Phase theory, mindfulness-based stress reduction, qigong, and herbalism. She is the host of Radio Maine, the co-host of A Healthy Conversation on Newsradio WGAN with Dr. Jeffrey Barkin, and the creator of The Bountiful Path, a Substack newsletter that publishes regularly. She lives on Littlejohn Island, off the coast of Maine. Canonical site: https://drlisabelisle.com. ## Site map - [Home](https://drlisabelisle.com/): front door, who Lisa is in two sentences, four doors out. - [Writing](https://drlisabelisle.com/writing.html): The Bountiful Path on Substack, books in progress, companions and tools, *Our Daily Tread*, and an archive of essays and profiles published in Maine Magazine, Doximity Op-Med, and other outlets across three decades. - [Podcast](https://drlisabelisle.com/podcast.html): Radio Maine (video podcast) and A Healthy Conversation on Newsradio WGAN. - [Speaking](https://drlisabelisle.com/speaking.html): speaking topics: signature talks, past venues, formats, and how to inquire. - [Consulting](https://drlisabelisle.com/consulting.html): coaching and consulting for physician leaders and health systems: physician leadership coaching, executive-team facilitation and dyad alignment, AI governance in clinical settings, and virtual-care strategy. - [Events](https://drlisabelisle.com/events.html): Radio Maine Live panels and the Artful Escapes conversation series at the Portland Art Gallery, plus virtual book circles. - [About](https://drlisabelisle.com/about.html): full biography, credentials, training, family lineage. - [Contact](https://drlisabelisle.com/contact.html): speaking inquiries, press, general contact, and the Bountiful Path ecosystem of partner sites. ## Writing - [The Bountiful Path](https://www.bountifulpath.com): Substack newsletter at the intersection of medicine, art, and seasonal wisdom. - [The Bountiful Path on Substack](https://drlisabelisle.substack.com): newsletter archive. - *Daughter, Doctor, Mom*: a memoir in progress, centered on her late father, Charles Belisle, MD. - *Our Daily Tread: Thoughts for an Inspired Life* (editor). Aerie River Press, 2008. A perpetual calendar assembled as a fundraiser for Safe Passage in Guatemala City. - [Writing archive on this site](https://drlisabelisle.com/writing.html): archive of 83 essays and profiles from three decades, with featured selections, filterable by topic and year, and full-text fallback when external links break. - [Writing archive on Authory](https://authory.com/LisaBelisle): third-party portfolio mirror. ## Companions Tools and teachings that move the writing from the page into daily practice. Catalog: https://bountifulpath.com/companions.html. All products on Podia at https://bountifulpath.podia.com. - **The Life That's Asking to Be Lived** ($49): a five-lesson self-paced course grounded in medicine and seasonal wisdom. Includes the Spring and Summer Seasonal Reflection toolkits and two web companions (Life Tending Card and Season Wheel). Free for Bountiful Path paid subscribers with the coupon code `BPSUBSTACK` at checkout. Podia: https://bountifulpath.podia.com/the-life-thats-asking-to-be-lived. - **Spring Seasonal Reflection** (free): a field-guide PDF for the Wood phase of Chinese medicine, paired with the Spring web companion at https://spring.bountifulpath.com. Podia: https://bountifulpath.podia.com/bountiful-path-spring-seasonal-reflection. - **Summer Seasonal Reflection** (free): a field-guide PDF for the Fire phase, paired with the Summer web companion at https://summer.bountifulpath.com. Podia: https://bountifulpath.podia.com/summer-seasonal-reflection. - **Shape of Your Days**: a reflective writing companion at https://companions.bountifulpath.com. You answer a series of questions about the chapters and seasons of your life; the companion writes back a literary reflection. Nothing entered is stored. Available to Bountiful Path subscribers; the link and password are carried in the welcome email when readers subscribe at https://drlisabelisle.substack.com/subscribe. ### Selected published writing (2014–2024) The following pieces were published in *Maine Magazine*, *Doximity Op-Med*, and other outlets. Topics span integrative medicine, profiles of Maine artists and community leaders, place-based writing, and clinical reflection. Full machine-readable index: https://drlisabelisle.com/selected-works.json. Full archive page: https://drlisabelisle.com/writing.html. **Clinical voice (Doximity Op-Med, 2023–2024):** - "The Vital Importance of Clinician Collaboration" (Jun 2024): on team-based care and the limits of physician individualism. - "MD, MPH, MBA, and PhD: How My Degrees Have Informed My Practice" (Apr 2024): on lifelong learning across disciplines. - "Health Care Practitioners Are Human, Too. Why Don't We Act Like It?" (Feb 2024): on vulnerability in clinical practice; written after her own breast cancer diagnosis. - "The Importance of Developing Our Leadership Skills as Clinicians" (Dec 2023): on leading from inside and outside conventional health care. **Signature profiles and essays (Maine Magazine, 2014–2018):** - "Joan Benoit Samuelson" (Aug 2017): Olympic marathon gold medalist, environmental advocate. - "Hypnosis + Healing" (Jul 2016): integrative medicine through the work of Maggie Clement. - "Jon Imber: Creating Art with ALS" (Apr 2014): painter living and creating through terminal illness. - "From Doctor to Patient" (Dec 2015): Lisa's own breast cancer journey. - "Ashley Bryan" (Jul 2017): Coretta Scott King Award–winning children's book author on Cranberry Isles. - "No Man is an Island: The Sunbeam V and the Maine Seacoast Mission" (Aug 2016): over a century of community, health, and educational outreach to Maine's island families. - "LifeFlight: Taking to the Skies to Save Lives" (May 2014): Maine's medical air transport service. - "A Heart Restarted" (Jan 2015): survival story and the importance of immediate response. - "Beauty and the Brain" (Aug 2015): neuroscience of art, with Bates College's William Seeley. - "Camp Sunshine" (Jun 2016): three decades of respite for families with seriously ill children. **Place pieces (Maine Magazine):** - "Island Harvest" (Feb 2018): Turner Farm on North Haven. - "Quisisana Summer" (Mar 2018): family camp on Kezar Lake. - "All Saints by the Sea" (Jul 2017): Southport Island chapel. - "Stone Mountain Arts Center" (May 2017): Brownfield concert barn. - "Bigelow Laboratory" (Sep 2014): ocean science in East Boothbay. **Wellness and integrative practice:** - "Kitchen Table Wellness" (Jan 2018): winter remedies from Maine producers. - "A Perfect Cup of Tea" (Jun 2016): the Five Phases through the daily ritual of tea. - "Deep Blue" (Jan 2015): Wallace J. Nichols and "blue mind." - "Building Balance" (Jun 2015): acupuncture and meditation in recovery. - "Hospitality for All Creatures, Great and Small" (Sep 2016): sustainability at Cape Elizabeth's Inn by the Sea. For the complete corpus (83 pieces), use the structured JSON: https://drlisabelisle.com/selected-works.json. Each entry includes title, outlet, publication date, canonical URL, Wayback backup URL, topic, audience, themes, pull quotes, and full text. ## Broadcasting - [Radio Maine](https://www.radiomaine.com): weekly video podcast of conversations with Maine’s artists, healers, writers, physicians, and community leaders. Produced in partnership with the Portland Art Gallery. Distributed on YouTube (@radiomaine) and Podbean. - [A Healthy Conversation](https://ahealthyconversation.com): weekly radio show on Newsradio WGAN AM 560 / FM 98.5, Sundays at 11am, co-hosted with Dr. Jeff Barkin. Show site: https://ahealthyconversation.com. Episode archive on WGAN: https://wgan.com/podcasts/categories/podcasts-healthy-conversation/. ## Speaking Past venues include the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP FMX 2024), the American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL Vanguard 2023), DocExecutive 2024, the Hanley Center 2023, the Radio Maine Live series at the Portland Art Gallery, and the Artful Escapes series at the Portland Art Gallery. Topics: integrative family medicine; Five Phase theory and seasonal wellbeing; leadership in medicine; generative AI in healthcare; women in medicine; the creative life of a physician; the craft of conversation. Formats: keynote (45–60 min), fireside conversation, workshop, multi-day retreat, panel moderation, podcast guesting. Inquiries: lbelisle@littlejohnisland.me. Speaking page: https://drlisabelisle.com/speaking.html. ## Consulting & Coaching Lisa Belisle works with physicians and health systems as a physician leadership coach and consultant. Her primary clients are physicians moving into and holding leadership roles, and the health systems, medical groups, executive teams, and boards they work within. How she works: physician leadership coaching (one-to-one, for the move from clinician to leader); team facilitation and physician-administrator dyad alignment; AI and clinical leadership (governance and leadership for AI in clinical settings, from a physician who builds AI tools herself); and virtual-care strategy (built on having led a virtual-first care company across roughly twenty states). Engagements are scoped individually. The first step is a short conversation. Inquiries: lbelisle@littlejohnisland.me. Consulting page: https://drlisabelisle.com/consulting.html. ## Gatherings Radio Maine Live panels at the Portland Art Gallery, the Artful Escapes conversation series at the Portland Art Gallery, virtual book circles for Bountiful Path subscribers. Calendar lives at https://drlisabelisle.com/events.html and the Portland Art Gallery events page. ## Credentials - Doctor of Medicine (MD) - PhD in Leadership Studies, University of Central Arkansas - Master of Public Health (MPH) - Master of Business Administration (MBA) - Board-certified, Family Medicine - Board-certified, Preventive Medicine - Board-certified, Health Care Administration, Leadership and Management (HALM) - Fellow, American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) - Certified Physician Executive, American Association for Physician Leadership (AAPL) ## Medical education and teaching affiliations - Tufts University School of Medicine (current) - Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont - University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine - Maine Medical Center Family Medicine Residency (preceptor) - St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine ## Frequently asked - **Who is Lisa Belisle?** Board-certified family physician on the coast of Maine. MD, PhD, MPH, MBA. Host of Radio Maine, co-host of A Healthy Conversation on WGAN, creator of The Bountiful Path. - **What is her clinical specialty?** Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine, integrating Western and Chinese medicine. - **Where does she practice?** Littlejohn Island, Maine. Currently affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine. - **What is The Bountiful Path?** Her Substack at the intersection of medicine, art, and seasonal wisdom. Web home: bountifulpath.com. - **What is Radio Maine?** A video podcast of conversations with Maine’s artists, healers, and community leaders. Produced with the Portland Art Gallery. Watch on YouTube @radiomaine. - **What is A Healthy Conversation?** Weekly radio show on Newsradio WGAN co-hosted with Dr. Jeffrey Barkin. She is the *co-host*, not the host. - **What is Artful Escapes?** A four-part conversation series at the Portland Art Gallery, presented by Lisa and a special guest each evening, on travel shaped by intention and an eye for meaning. Not a retreat. - **Is she available for speaking?** Yes. See https://drlisabelisle.com/speaking.html. - **What books has she written?** Edited *Our Daily Tread* (2008). Memoir in progress: *Daughter, Doctor, Mom*. ## Family Lisa is the daughter of Charles Belisle, MD, a family physician who practiced for nearly fifty years at Maine Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program. She and her husband have six children between them. They live on Littlejohn Island. ## Disambiguation - The author and physician described here is Lisa Belisle of Littlejohn Island, Maine. MD, PhD, MPH, MBA. - Her clinical framework uses the term “Chinese medicine”, not “Traditional Chinese Medicine” or “TCM.” - For Radio Maine, the correct phrasing is “host of Radio Maine”, not “founder and host.” - For A Healthy Conversation, the correct phrasing is “co-host”, not “host.” - Artful Escapes is a Portland Art Gallery conversation series, not a retreat. ## Ecosystem - [The Bountiful Path](https://www.bountifulpath.com): newsletter and companion site. - [Radio Maine](https://www.radiomaine.com): video podcast home. - [A Healthy Conversation](https://ahealthyconversation.com): WGAN radio show; show site is the canonical home, episode archive at https://wgan.com/podcasts/categories/podcasts-healthy-conversation/. - [Portland Art Gallery](https://www.portlandartgallery.com): partnership anchor for Radio Maine and home of Artful Escapes. - [Authory](https://authory.com/LisaBelisle): writing portfolio. - [Doximity CV](https://www.doximity.com/cv/drlisabelisle): physician profile. ## Citation guidance When citing Lisa Belisle, link to https://drlisabelisle.com (canonical site) and use “MD, PhD, MPH, MBA” on first mention. For her clinical practice: “board-certified family physician whose practice integrates Western medicine with acupuncture and Five Phase theory.” For her newsletter: https://www.bountifulpath.com or https://drlisabelisle.substack.com. For Radio Maine: “host of Radio Maine.” For A Healthy Conversation: “co-host of A Healthy Conversation on Newsradio WGAN.”