Timothy B. McCall

Timothy McCall, M.D. is a board-certified internist, Yoga Journal's Medical Editor since 2002 and the bestselling author of Yoga as Medicine, and his latest, Saving My Neck: A Doctor's East/West Journey Through Cancer. He teaches yoga therapy seminars in the US and around the world. For dates and locations, see www.DrMcCall.com, where you can also access more than 100 archived articles, videos, and interviews.

Timothy is the co-editor of The Principles and Practice of Yoga in Health Care, a professional level medical textbook on yoga therapy, published in 2016. He is also the author of Examining Your Doctor, a critically-acclaimed consumer health guide. His articles have appeared in dozens of publications, including the New England Journal of Medicine, The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), Public Citizen's Health Letter, The Nation, American Health, Redbook (where he was a contributing editor), The Boston Globe, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Los Angeles Times. From 1996-2001 his medical commentaries were featured on the public radio program Marketplace.

He practiced medicine in the Boston area for a dozen years before devoting himself in the late 1990s to yoga therapy. He has studied with many of the world's leading yoga teachers including BKS Iyengar and TKV Desikachar. His primary teachers have been Patricia Walden, Rod Stryker and Donald Moyer. In 2005, he began his studies with a traditional Ayurvedic doctor, Chandukutty Vaidyar, and spent more than a year at his clinic in Kerala, India.

Timothy lives in Burlington, Vermont and lectures and teaches yoga therapy workshops worldwide. DrMcCall.com