Travis Lane Stork

Travis Lane Stork (born March 9, 1972) is an American television personality and emergency physician best known for appearing on The Bachelor and as the host of the syndicated daytime talk show The Doctors.

Travis Lane Stork
Stork in San Diego in 2008
Born (1972-03-09) March 9, 1972
Alma materDuke University
University of Virginia
OccupationTelevision personality, emergency physician
Height6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)
Spouse(s)
Charlotte Brown
(
m. 20122015)
Parris Bell (m. 2019)
Children1

Career

Stork graduated magna cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society from Duke University, and earned his medical degree with honors from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha.[1][2] He thereafter began an emergency medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.[3]

During his residency, Stork appeared on Season 8 of The Bachelor. During the season finale of the show, Stork chose schoolteacher Sarah Stone, who coincidentally lived only a few blocks away from his Nashville residence. However, only one week after the show's pre-taped finale aired, the couple announced that their relationship was already over.[4] He completed his residency, then practiced medicine in the emergency departments at Vanderbilt and a hospital in Colorado.[2][3]

Stork is a host on The Doctors, a Los Angeles-based daytime medical/talk show, beginning with its debut in September 2008 and continuing into its 10th season (2017–2018). On the show, Stork leads a panel of three other physicians from different fields (pediatrics, plastic surgery and obstetrics/gynecology) who discuss health issues and answer audience questions.[5] The idea came from a series of segments that were featured on Dr. Phil, to which Stork was also a frequent contributor.[1][6][7]

The show won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Informative in 2010.[8]

A 2014 study in the British Medical Journal determined that "evidence supported 63%, contradicted 14%, and was not found for 24%" of recommendations made by the panel of doctors, and that "the public should be skeptical about recommendations made on medical talk shows."[9]

In October 2013, Stork joined telehealth company MDLIVE as chairman of its Medical Advisory Board.[10] As of March 2015, he was no longer affiliated with the company.[11]

Stork has published several books for the general public about health,[12] which includes The Lean Belly Prescription and The Doctor's Diet, and both had made the New York Times Best Seller list in the "Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous" category.[13][14]

Personal life

Stork grew up in Missouri and attended Parkway West High School. He has said that his parents were Midwestern farmers and that he was the first doctor in his family.[5] He married pediatrician Charlotte Brown on 30 June 2012.[15] They divorced less than three years later on 25 March 2015. He then married his girlfriend of three years, Parris Bell, on 3 August 2019.[16] On 17 June 2020, Stork and Bell welcomed their first child together, a son.[17]

gollark: I would probably also drop forms since their functionality is fairly easy to replicate with the scripting capabilities.
gollark: Oh, and in terms of arbitrary preferences, I'd probably make some of the web APIs more functional programming™️ instead of using objects; instead of `URL` objects, you would just have a `parseURL` function returning a table of URL components, and `serializeURL` function... unparsing it.
gollark: Well, also the web is gigantically complicated and there's no hope of dislodging it.
gollark: WebRTC is overcomplicated and no, so an alternative API would... allow you to listen and send on high-numbered TCP/UDP ports, or something? Not sure of the exact implications of that.
gollark: The user agent is stupid and would instead be feature flags.

References

  1. Paige Albiniak (April 29, 2014). "Meet the Original Doctors of 'The Doctors'". Variety. Retrieved 16 March 2016.
  2. Staff, Fox News Magazine. June 6, 2012 6 Lean Belly Tips from Dr. Stork
  3. Kate Belz for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, July 25, 2013. Host of 'The Doctors,' formerly of Vanderbilt, coming to She Expo
  4. Elizabeth Kwiatkowski for Reality TV World. July 5, 2012 Former 'The Bachelor' Star Travis Stork Marries Dr. Charlotte Brown, realitytvworld.com; accessed March 8, 2017.
  5. Patricia Sheridan. Breakfast With ... Dr. Travis Stork, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 13, 2013.
  6. Melinda Carstensen for MediaPlanet: The Future of Healthcare. Making the Rounds with Dr. Travis Stork (page archived May 25, 2015).
  7. Brian Stelter. Grab the Remote, the Doctor's In, nytimes.com; accessed March 8, 2017.
  8. "'As the World Turns' tops Daytime Emmys". The Hollywood Reporter. New York City: Prometheus Global Media. Associated Press. June 27, 2010. Archived from the original on July 28, 2011. Retrieved May 5, 2013.
  9. Koronyk, C.; et al. (December 17, 2014). "Televised medical talk shows—what they recommend and the evidence to support their recommendations: a prospective observational study". The British Medical Journal. 349: g7346. doi:10.1136/bmj.g7346. PMC 4269523. PMID 25520234. Retrieved December 17, 2014.
  10. "Press Release: Dr. Travis Stork, co-host of TV Talk Show The Doctors, Joins Telehealth Leader MDLIVE as Chairman of its Medical Advisory Board". Archived from the original on 2016-05-04.
  11. Web Archive of MDLIVE: Our Advisors Page archived March 2015
  12. WorldCat Stork, Travis Page accessed March 15, 2016
  13. New York Times Best Sellers. February 27, 2011 How to, Miscellaneous
  14. "Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous". The New York Times. January 26, 2014. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  15. The Doctors Star Travis Stork Married to Dr. Charlotte Brown Archived 2012-07-04 at the Wayback Machine
  16. Kile, Meredith B. (January 27, 2016). "EXCLUSIVE: Dr. Travis Stork Reveals the Most Unexpected Part of Being 'The Bachelor'". ET Online. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
  17. "𝐃𝐫. 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐤 on Instagram: "Grayson Lane Stork was born at 1:10am early this morning. He's long at 22 inches and 8 lbs 6 oz. He had some trouble breathing due to…"". Instagram. Retrieved 2020-07-15.
Preceded by
Charlie O'Connell
The Bachelor
Season 8
Succeeded by
Prince Lorenzo Borghese
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