Lisa Belisle works at the intersection of medicine and the human spirit: in the clinic, on the air, on the page, and in conversation with artists, healers, and thinkers who believe that how we live matters as much as how long we live. Lisa is the host of Radio Maine, creator of The Bountiful Path, and a board-certified family physician whose practice integrates Western medicine with acupuncture and Five Phase theory. She lives and works off the coast of Maine.
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“How we live matters as much as how long we live.”The Bountiful Path
Lisa has presented at national medical conferences and cultural gatherings on the intersections of medicine, creativity, leadership, and seasonal wellbeing. Her talks draw on more than three decades of clinical experience, Five Phase theory, and the stories that emerge when medicine and art share a room.
Lisa Belisle is a board-certified family physician and preventive medicine specialist whose clinical work integrates Western medicine with acupuncture, Five Phase theory, mindfulness-based stress reduction, qigong, and herbalism. Across more than three decades of practice, she has understood health as something that unfolds within relationships, rhythms, and time.
Lisa's career has never moved in a single direction. Alongside clinical practice, she has served in medical executive and advisory roles within health systems, founded and led her own practice, directed digital health initiatives, and taught in residency and medical education for more than a decade. Simultaneously, she built a parallel career in media, working as a wellness editor and editor in chief for a regional publication.
Lisa is the host of Radio Maine, a video podcast exploring creativity and the human spirit. She co-hosts A Healthy Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Barkin on WGAN. She publishes The Bountiful Path, a weekly Substack newsletter at the intersection of medicine, art, and seasonal wisdom.
A Healthy Conversation with Dr. Jeffrey Barkin. Listen on WGAN →
Lisa is a collaborator with The Portland Art Gallery in Portland, Maine, where the Radio Maine Live panel series and the Artful Escapes conversation series take place.
Lisa holds a PhD in Community Leadership from the University of Central Arkansas. She is working on a memoir, Daughter, Doctor, Mom, centered on her relationship with her late father, Charles Belisle, MD, a family physician who practiced for nearly fifty years at Maine Medical Center’s Family Medicine Residency Program. She and her husband have six children between them. They live on Littlejohn Island, off the coast of Maine.
This perpetual calendar of quotations, essays, and photographs was born from a friendship. Hanley Denning, a Bowdoin classmate and Maine native, moved to Guatemala City and founded Safe Passage, a nonprofit dedicated to serving children and families living beside the city garbage dump. Her life’s work there became the foundation for this project.
Lisa brought together a community of supporters, gathering images, words, and stories to create a book that could serve as a fundraiser for Safe Passage. The result was a collection that reflected the breadth of people moved by Hanley’s mission. Safe Passage continues that work today.