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Dr. Darria Long leverages the best of science, to make our lives healthier, better… and easier.
By combining her life’s work as an Emergency Room physician and being a mom of three – Dr. Darria has become the nation’s ‘making life better for women’ doctor by helping individuals pave ways to stay present and remain healthy during times of constant distractions and high stress. With a website devoted to distilling health headlines and creating a thriving lifestyle, Dr. Darria shares simple, evidence-based (from western, eastern, and integrative medicine) advice on physical and mental wellness, and the health guidance you’d expect and trust from a close friend.
A favored national TV contributor and national bestselling author of Mom Hacks, Dr. Darria is also a TED speaker “How to triage your life like an ER doctor,” and Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee. She received her training in emergency medicine at Yale School of Medicine and her MBA from Harvard Business School. A featured regular on CNN, Headline News, NBC, Interview Healthline, Hallmark,Lifetime, Dr. Oz, Thrive Global, Atlanta Small Business Network, Parenting for the future, and many others.
As a Harvard and Yale-trained Emergency physician, Dr. Darria understands having too much to do in the most stressful of situations – and too little time to do it. She quickly learned techniques to save time – and lives. But when she developed autoimmune arthritis, she went from running daily to barely able to walk, and had her own wakeup call to find solutions for her own health challenges. Having turned around her own health, she now brings these same high-yield strategies to her audiences every single day.
But once she had gained back control of her own health, her patients’ confusion with their health questions became even more apparent. What’s more – their pain they felt from widespread health misinformation was a daily reminder that they needed a NEW, trusted source.
Dr. Darria is a national spokesperson for the American College of Emergency Physicians, and now a TV regular across national and international networks.
Dr. Darria is an author in the pre-eminent textbook of emergency medicine, Harwood-Nuss Clinical Practice of Emergency Medicine, as well as author of multiple medical research journal articles.
Dr. Darria earned her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, her residency in emergency medicine from Yale University School of Medicine where she was a Clinical Instructor, and her MBA from Harvard Business School. She later joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School, where she was an Instructor of Medicine.
Dr. Darria resides in Atlanta, GA, with her husband, renowned hand surgeon Dr. Bryce Gillespie, and their three children. She loves hiking with them, impromptu dance parties, and squeezing any snuggle time she can.