Dr. Li's Background
Bio
Dr. William W. Li is an international expert on health and disease fighting based on diet, lifestyle, and treatments that keep the body’s blood vessels in balance. As President and founder of the Angiogenesis Foundation, he is leading a worldwide effort to bring forth revolutionary health improvement emerging from cutting edge medical research.
Dr. Li’s expertise extends across many health arenas including cancer, diabetes, blindness, heart disease, wound healing, and more than 70 other disease conditions. His work has been published in Science, The New England Journal of Medicine, and The Lancet. He is a highly sought international lecturer and advisor, and is known for his ability to predict medical breakthroughs often years before they become realized. His work has been recognized by O Magazine, The Atlantic, USA Today, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, Wall Street Journal, and CNN, as well as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.
Dr. Li is one of Dr. Oz’s diet and disease prevention experts. He created the “Eat to Defeat Cancer” program (www.eattodefeat.org), a healthy eating campaign which now has spread to more than 40 countries.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dr. Li received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, and his medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He completed his clinical training in Internal Medicine at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.