Travis Lane Stork (born March 9, 1972) is an American

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, and

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best known for appearing on '' The Bachelor'' and as the host of the syndicated daytime talk show '' The Doctors'' from 2008 to 2020.

Career

Stork graduated ''

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'' as a member of

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from

Duke University Duke University is a private research university in Durham, North Carolina. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1892. In 1924, tobacco and electric power industrialist Jam ...

, and earned his medical degree with honors from the

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, where he was a member of

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.Staff, Fox News Magazine. June 6, 201
6 Lean Belly Tips from Dr. Stork
/ref> He thereafter began an emergency medicine residency at

Vanderbilt University Medical Center The Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) is a medical provider with multiple hospitals in Nashville, Tennessee, as well as clinics and facilities throughout Middle Tennessee. VUMC is an independent non-profit organization, but maintains acad ...

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.Kate Belz for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, July 25, 2013
Host of 'The Doctors,' formerly of Vanderbilt, coming to She Expo
/ref> During his residency, Stork appeared on Season 8 of '' The Bachelor''. During the season finale of the show, Stork chose schoolteacher Sarah Stone, who coincidentally lived only a few blocks away from his Nashville residence. However, only one week after the show's pre-taped finale aired, the couple announced that their relationship was already over. He completed his residency, then practiced medicine in the

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s at Vanderbilt and a hospital in Colorado. Stork was a host on '' The Doctors'', a

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-based daytime medical/talk show, beginning with its debut in September 2008 and continuing until September 2020 when the show switched to a single-host format. On the show, Stork led a panel of three other physicians from different fields (pediatrics, plastic surgery and obstetrics/gynecology) who discussed health issues and answered audience questions.Patricia Sheridan
Breakfast With ... Dr. Travis Stork
''Pittsburgh Post-Gazette'', May 13, 2013. The idea came from a series of segments that were featured on ''

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'', to which Stork was also a frequent contributor. The show won the

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in 2010. A 2014 study in the ''

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'' determined that "evidence supported 63%, contradicted 14%, and was not found for 24%" of recommendations made by the panel of doctors, and that "the public should be skeptical about recommendations made on medical talk shows." In October 2013, Stork joined telehealth company MDLIVE as chairman of its Medical Advisory Board. As of March 2015, he was no longer affiliated with the company. Stork has published several books for the general public about health, which includes ''The Lean Belly Prescription'' and ''The Doctor's Diet'', and both had made the

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in the "Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous" category.

Personal life

Stork grew up in Missouri and attended Parkway West High School in

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. In an interview with the

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, he said that his parents were Midwestern farmers and that he was the first doctor in his family. He married pediatrician Charlotte Brown on 30 June 2012. They divorced on 25 March 2015. He then married his girlfriend of three years, Parris Bell, on 3 August 2019. On 17 June 2020, Stork and Bell welcomed their first child together, a son.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stork, Travis Lane 1972 births American television talk show hosts Living people American emergency physicians Physicians from Colorado People from Fort Collins, Colorado People from Nashville, Tennessee Duke University alumni University of Virginia School of Medicine alumni People from Los Angeles Bachelor Nation contestants