Stork graduated magna cum laude as a member of Phi Beta Kappa Society from Duke University, and earned his medical degree with honors from the University of Virginia, where he was a member of Alpha Omega Alpha. He thereafter began an emergency medicine residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee. 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 emergency departments at Vanderbilt and a hospital in Colorado. Stork is a host on The Doctors, a Los Angeles-based daytime medical/talk show, beginning with its debut in September 2008 and continuing into its 10th season. On the show, Stork leads a panel of three other physicians from different fields who discuss health issues and answer audience questions. The idea came from a series of segments that were featured on Dr. Phil, to which Stork was also a frequent contributor. The show won the Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Informative in 2010. A 2014 study in the British Medical Journal 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 New York Times Best Seller list in the "Advice, How-to & Miscellaneous" category.
Personal life
Stork grew up in Missouri and attended Parkway West High School. He has 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 less than three years later 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.
