May National Call

Frances Stewart, M.D. is a psychiatrist, integrative health coach, and retired U.S. Navy Captain. She has been a practicing physician for 38 years. She graduated from the West Virginia University School of Medicine and did her post-doctoral training at WVU and the University of Vermont. She has served on the faculty at the University of Vermont and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

She retired from her position at the National Intrepid Center of Excellence in Bethesda, MD in 2018 and continues to serve as a volunteer physician with the American Red Cross and the Maryland Medical Reserve Corps. She is continuing in her research work in collaboration with investigators from the Uniformed Services Universit, Harvard University, and Emory University.

She also serves as a Climate Ambassador for Physicians for Social Responsibility and a Climate for Health Ambassador for ecoAmerica. She is an active member of Elders Climate Action and several other organizations working to solve the climate crisis.