Michael F. Holick MD, PhD

Professor, Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition & Weight Management

Professor, Pharmacology, Physiology & Biophysics

85 E. Newton St | (617) 638-4546
Michael Holick
Sections

Endocrinology, Diabetes, Nutrition & Weight Management

Centers

Evans Center for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research

Biography

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.

Other Positions

Education

MD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison

MS, University of Wisconsin-Madison

BS, Seton Hall University

Publications

Published on 1/1/2025

Uçar N, Deeney JT, Pickering RT, Fan TY, Loo R, Mueller PM, Holick MF. Interaction of Vitamin D-BODIPY With Fat Cells and the Link to Obesity-associated Vitamin D Deficiency. Anticancer Res. 2025 Jan; 45(1):55-63. PMID: 39740852.

Published on 10/30/2024

Holick MF. Revisiting Vitamin D Guidelines: A Critical Appraisal of the Literature. Endocr Pract. 2024 Dec; 30(12):1227-1241. PMID: 39486479.

Published on 10/17/2024

Shirvani P, Shirvani A, Holick MF. Decoding the Genetic Basis of Mast Cell Hypersensitivity and Infection Risk in Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Curr Issues Mol Biol. 2024 Oct 17; 46(10):11613-11629. PMID: 39451569.

Published on 9/27/2024

Brust LA, Linxweiler M, Schnatmann J, Kühn JP, Knebel M, Braun FL, Wemmert S, Menger MD, Schick B, Holick MF, Kuo F, Morris LGT, Körner S. Effects of Vitamin D on tumor cell proliferation and migration, tumor initiation and anti-tumor immune response in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. Biomed Pharmacother. 2024 Nov; 180:117497. PMID: 39341078.

Published on 8/3/2024

Pludowski P, Marcinowska-Suchowierska E, Togizbayev G, Belaya Z, Grant WB, Pilz S, Holick MF. Daily and Weekly "High Doses" of Cholecalciferol for the Prevention and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency for Obese or Multi-Morbidity and Multi-Treatment Patients Requiring Multi-Drugs-A Narrative Review. Nutrients. 2024 Aug 03; 16(15). PMID: 39125420.

Published on 6/11/2024

Das L, Sachdeva N, Holick MF, Devnani M, Dutta P, Marwaha RK. Impact of BMI on serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D with calcifediol supplementation in young adults: a longitudinal study. Endocrine. 2024 Oct; 86(1):391-399. PMID: 38861119.

Published on 5/16/2024

Holick MF. Vitamin D and bone health: What vitamin D can and cannot do. Adv Food Nutr Res. 2024; 109:43-66. PMID: 38777417.

Published on 4/30/2024

Kim TK, Slominski RM, Pyza E, Kleszczynski K, Tuckey RC, Reiter RJ, Holick MF, Slominski AT. Evolutionary formation of melatonin and vitamin D in early life forms: insects take centre stage. Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc. 2024 Oct; 99(5):1772-1790. PMID: 38686544.

Published on 10/4/2023

Slominski AT, Tuckey RC, Jetten AM, Holick MF. Recent Advances in Vitamin D Biology: Something New under the Sun. J Invest Dermatol. 2023 Dec; 143(12):2340-2342. PMID: 37791933.

Published on 8/1/2023

Holick MF. The Death D-Fying Vitamin D3 for Digestive Tract Cancers-The p53 Antibody Connection. JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Aug 01; 6(8):e2328883. PMID: 37606930.

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