Our Mission is to establish Lifestyle Medicine, especially the adoption of Whole-Food Plant-Based nutrition, as the foundation for health and the healthcare system.

We envision a world where Lifestyle Medicine is the standard of care within the healthcare system, and where people are empowered to make lifestyle behavior changes based on the tenets of Lifestyle Medicine.

Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Board of Directors

Carol H. Barnett, PhD, JD
Board Secretary/Treasurer

Scientific Advisory Board

Neal Barnard, MD

Founding President, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine

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, MD

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,

Advisory Board

Simone Bailey-Brown, MD 

Dilip Barman, MS, ScM

Jill Brooks, RN, DC 

Jane Dorsey, MSN 

Kerry Graff, MD 

Rosalind Hayes, MD 

Brian Justice, DC 

Cheryl Kelley, DMD 

Stefenie King, MD 

Scott E. Liebman, MD 

Russell Maggio, MD 

Steve Melcher 

Rebeca Monk, MD 

Robert Paine 

Thomas Roberts, MD 

Sandra Sarnoski-Roberts, MD

Joan Vezelis

Cathleen Wells