Alex Lickerman, MD

Alex Lickerman is a direct primary care physician and founder of ImagineMD in Chicago. He spent his first 20 years in medicine at the University of Chicago, where he ran primary care for seven years and taught generations of today's medical leaders, earning a reputation as a doctor's doctor who could untangle cases that stumped other physicians.

A nationally recognized speaker on resilience, his book The Undefeated Mind lays out evidence-based steps for building resilience and became the basis for the Resilience Project he founded at the University of Chicago. A second book, The Ten Worlds, explores what makes happiness last, and he counts tenacity in preventive care, chronic disease management, and accurate diagnosis among his strengths.

Lickerman lives in Chicago with his wife and son, spending free time exercising, reading, writing, and in good conversation. He once wrote a television pilot optioned by DreamWorks, along with several movie screenplays, including an adaptation of Milton's Paradise Lost.