Emilia Vuorisalmi


Emilia Vuorisalmi is a medical doctor, TV personality and an entrepreneur from Helsinki, Finland.

Medical work

Vuorisalmi holds a medical doctor degree from Helsinki University and is as of 2014 a private practitioner. She is also the team doctor for the Finnish basketball league team Helsinki Seagulls.

Television work

In 2014, Vuorisalmi hosted together with Kiti Kokkonen and Elina Tanskanen the newly launched TV show Hehku. Hehku is a weekly prime time chronicle airing on the Finnish National Television channel YLE 2. The topics dealt with range from health and beauty treatments, sports and well-being activities to overall issues that concern modern day Finnish women and girls.
She owns and runs a media production company called Med&More which specialises in developing health and well-being related TV and transmedia concepts.

Writing

In August 2015, Vuorisalmi published her first book Sekaisin LOVEsta which is a scientific exploration of the issues of falling in love and being in a relationship. In it, she discusses the effects of hormones and stress on maintaining a successful relationship as well as attempts to answer why we fall in love in the first place and why we break-up. The book is published by Otava Publishing Company Ltd from Finland.

Speaker

Vuorisalmi also works as a speaker and lecturer through Speakers Forum Finland.

Personal life

Vuorisalmi was married to actor Mikko Leppilampi from 2006 to 2010. The two have a daughter, Lilia.