Nantucket Cottage Hospital Adds New Primary Care Physician

Nantucket Cottage Hospital announced Monday that David Lieberman has joined its internal medicine primary care team as a year-round physician specializing in adult primary care.

Dr. Lieberman was previously living and practicing in Tucson, Arizona, where he was an assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics, General Internal Medicine and Palliative Medicine.

Dr. Lieberman said he and his wife were looking to return to the New England area to be closer to family.

“It is shaping up to be exactly what we wanted, with a beautiful natural family-friendly environment, diverse patient population, and room for creativity around primary care,” said Dr. Lieberman.

Dr. Lieberman’s path to becoming a medical doctor was not a traditional one. He was a political science major at Yale University, where he also started sharing his love of cooking on a public-access television show called “Campus Cuisine.” The show featured "sophisticated, yet accessible cooking," designed to inspire college students. The New York Times featured the show on the cover of its In Dining section, and that was the beginning of Lieberman's successful run as a television cooking show host on the Food Network and a New York Times bestselling author.

“Good Deal with Dave Lieberman” premiered on Food Network in the United States and Canada in April 2005, focusing on affordable gourmet-quality recipes. In 2006, he launched a web-exclusive series with Food Network called “Eat This with Dave Lieberman,” where he visited various cities, uncovering trends and crazes in cuisine.

While he was making his mark on television, he was also writing cookbooks. Dr. Lieberman's first book, “Young & Hungry,” was published in 2005. He followed that up in 2006 with a second, titled “Dave's Dinners: A Fresh Approach to Home-Cooked Meals.”

In 2009, Dr. Lieberman worked with a New York Times health reporter to publish “The 10 Things You Need to Eat,” which made The New York Times bestseller list that year. The book revolves around ingredients that have scientific evidence supporting their health benefits, and it was this project that started him down his journey to becoming a physician.

Eight years after graduating from Yale, Dr. Lieberman went back to school to complete his medical school prerequisites at Columbia University, before attending medical school at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University, followed by an Internal Medicine residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.