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Monique Tello, MD, MPH
Contributor
Dr. Monique Tello is a practicing physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, director of research and academic affairs for the MGH DGM Healthy Lifestyle Program, clinical instructor at Harvard Medical School, and author of the evidence-based lifestyle change guide Healthy Habits for Your Heart. She completed a combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency training program at Yale/New Haven Hospital. After residency, she earned a master’s in public health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and fellowship in general internal medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital. She is half Latina, speaks Spanish, and maintains a close relationship with her extended family in Guatemala. She is married to local sports broadcaster Bob Socci, and they have two young children, one with autism. She writes a popular blog, www.DrMoniqueTello.com, about achieving balance, health, and wellness from the perspective of doctor and mother.
Posts by Monique Tello, MD, MPH

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
Self-care: 4 ways to nourish body and soul

Exercise & Fitness
Fitting in fitness for busy people

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
Urinary incontinence: Common and manageable

Nutrition
A doctor’s recipe for a healthy breakfast

Exercise & Fitness
Diabetes: Adding lifestyle changes to medication can deliver a knockout punch

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
Patient-Centered Medical Home: A new model for medical care

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
Intensive lifestyle change: It works, and it's more than diet and exercise

Exercise & Fitness
Mind over matter? How fit you think you are versus actual fitness

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
The best place to launch a healthy lifestyle? Your kitchen

Exercise & Fitness
Exercise today, look better tomorrow (really)

Exercise & Fitness
More evidence that exercise helps keep your brain fit

Exercise & Fitness
Lifestyle change: “I know what to do, I just need to do it…but how?”

Exercise & Fitness
Exercise versus caffeine: Which is your best ally to fight fatigue?

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
Eat only every other day and lose weight?

Exercise & Fitness
Run for your (long) life

Heart Health
Over-the-counter pain relievers and your heart

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
Taking medicines like you’re supposed to: Why is it so hard?

Child & Teen Health
A strengths-based approach to autism

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
If you have low back pain try these steps first

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
What’s the evidence for evidence-based medicine?

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
The tricky thing about asthma

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
A primary care doctor delves into the opioid epidemic

Monique Tello, MD, MPH
When a nasty stomach virus strikes…

Exercise & Fitness