Polina Sayess MD, FAAFP, DipABFM, DipABLM

Dr. Polina Sayess is dual Board Certified in Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine with over 14-years-experience. She has worked as a primary care and urgent care physician at the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, New Hampshire. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine.

Dr. Polina Sayess has given multiple presentations and workshops covering healthy lifestyles and physician well-being at local, national, and international levels, including at the AAFP Physician Health and Wellbeing Conference, the AAFP Women’s Health Conference, and the AAFP Rural Health Conference.

Dr. Sayess is a co-founder and a Chair of the AAFP Lifestyle Medicine Member Interest Group. In 2020-2021 she served on the AAFP Lifestyle Medicine Advisory Panel. As part of the panel, she co-authored the AAFP Lifestyle Medicine Implementation Guide and Resources and the AAFP Lifestyle Medicine CME webinar Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into Everyday Practice. She has served on the Board of the New Hampshire Academy of Family Physicians since 2015.