Marie Savard

Marie Savard, MD is one of the most trusted voices on women’s health, wellness, and patient empowerment. Dr. Savard is an accomplished author having penned several books including Apples & Pears: the Body Shape Solution for Weight Loss and Wellness, How to Save Your Own Life: The Savard System for Managing – and Controlling – Your Health Care, and The Savard Health Record. Her most recent book, Ask Dr. Marie: Straight Talk and Reassuring Answers to Your Most Private Questions, provides frank, honest answers to the intimate questions that many women are afraid to discuss. The book topped Wall Street Journal’s 2009 List of Recommended Reading for a Healthy New Year.

Dr. Savard is a frequent speaker and spokesperson on behalf of a wide array of women’s health issues, featured in print, radio, and television. She was recently named as a medical contributor to ABC News, and she has also appeared on The Today Show, The Early Show, and Good Morning America.

In addition to providing commentary on the latest women’s health information through her website and newsletters, she is beginning a regular blog and periodic podcast titled, Ask Dr. Marie…and take charge of your health, to answer questions and reach out to the thousands of women she connects with on a regular basis. She has been asked hundreds of questions from women in the past years on a wide array of topics of impact and interest to most women. It is her comprehensive, compassionate, and sometimes humorous responses to these universal questions that are the subject of her current book project. Her responses not only inform, they challenge women to take charge of their health and make the best decisions for themselves and for their family.

Dr. Savard earned both a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing and a medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the former director of the Center for Women’s Health and associate professor at the Medical College of Pennsylvania. She was technical advisor to the United Nations’ Fourth World Conference on Women (Beijing, 1995) and served on the American Board of Internal Medicine’s Subcommittee on Clinical Competency in Women’s Health. She was also a health columnist for Woman’s Day magazine and senior medical consultant to Lifetime Television’s Strong Medicine.

Dr. Savard is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania and of the Board of Overseers of its School of Nursing. She is a member of the public policy advisory board of the Susan B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, Trustee of the College of Physicians, chair the PhyillyHealthInfo.org Advisory Board, and member of the Family Circle and Popsmear.org Advisory Board.