Boards

Board of Directors

  • Ted D. Barnett, MD, FACLM

    Board Chair
    RLMI Founding President
    Partner Borg and Ide Imaging

  • Susan Friedman, MD, MPH, FACLM

    Board Vice-Chair
    RLMI Director of Clinical Studies
    Professor Dept of Medicine URMC

  • Carol Barnett, PhD, JD

    Board Secretary/Treasurer

  • Joel Elliot

    Board Member

  • Robert Breakey, MD

    Board Member

Scientific Advisory Board

Neal Barnard, MD
Founding President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

Robert Breakey, MD
Medical Director IHA’s William J. Fileti Center for Lifestyle Medicine, Chair of IHA’s Governing Board, Ann Arbor, MI

Brenda Davis, RD
Best-selling author, Lead Nutritionist, Diabetes Wellness Research Project, Marshall Islands

Marsha-Gail Davis, MD, MPH
Primary Care Internist and Preventionist; Board member, American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Caldwell Esselstyn
Director, Cardiovascular Disease Prevention and Reversal Program, Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute

Michael Greger, MD
Best-selling author of How Not to Diet and How Not to Diet Cookbook
Founder, nutritionfacts.org 

Micaela Karlsen, PhD, MSPH
Director, Lifestyle Medicine Economic Research Consortium, American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Michael Klaper, MD
Vegan nutrition author
Graduate Medical Education Consultant

John McDougall, MD
Best-selling author; Co-Founder of the McDougall Program; recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine 

Milton Mills, MD
Critical Care Physician, Inova Fairfax Hospital

Darren Morton, PhD
Creator of The Lift Project 

Jeff Novick, MS, RDN
Director of Nutrition: The McDougall Program and The Pritikin Longevity Center

Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH, FACLM, DipABLM
Former President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Community Wellbeing and the Blue Zones Institute for Adventist Health,

Professional Advisory Board

Dilip Barman, MS, ScM
Jill Brooks, RN, DC
Jane Dorsey, MSN 
Kerry Graff, MD
Rosalind Hayes, MD 
Brian Justice, DC 
Cheryl Kelley, DMD 
Scott E. Liebman, MD 
Russell Maggio, MD
Neal Martin
Steve Melcher 
Rebeca Monk, MD 
Robert Paine 
Thomas Roberts, MD 
Sandra Sarnoski-Roberts, MD
Joan Vezelis