David’s award-winning career spans doctor, teacher, researcher and academic. He is recognised internationally as a pioneering leader in health and wellness.
He raised early warnings about the rising tide of today’s pandemics of long-term conditions. He worked to find solutions for people without a straightforward medical drug or surgical fix. He studied the human healing capacity and better ways to protect health and enhance wellbeing. Applying this learning, he built a reputation for his ability to help people’s coping, recovery, wellbeing, health, and flourishing. He then modelled this learning into group work in his WEL Courses, initially for NHS patients, care staff, and then communities. His approach has been shown in research to achieve significant long-term wellness enhancement for people. His pioneering work is credited with modelling the vision for the needed next wave of Public Health. He brings inspiration and leadership to the call for a more humane and healing approach, with fresh ways of addressing the increasing health crises of our era.
You can learn more by watching his General Public TEDx talk: Unlocking Human Healing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUFgxkBPh4Y
Dr David Reilly, MBChB, FRCP, MRCGP, Honorary DSc, is currently focussed on teaching, writing and his WEL Course developments. He is the Director of TheWEL Programmes, The Healing Shift Enquiry, and Founder and Director of TheWEL Foundation Charity.
He was formerly the Lead Consultant Physician at The NHS Centre for Integrative Care in Glasgow, Scotland; Greater Glasgow & Clyde Health Board’s Lead Clinician for people with CFS/ME; Honorary Senior Lecturer in Medicine Glasgow University; Visiting Professor of Medicine, University of Maryland; International Consultant to the Osher Centre, Harvard Medical School, USA; and the Scottish Government’s first National Clinical Lead for Integrative Care.