Meet the RLMI Team

Ted Barnett, MD, FACLM

Founding President and Board Chair

Full-time unpaid volunteer

• Dr. Barnett is the “High-Tech Doctor with Low-Tech Solutions”
• BS from Yale University, MD from Tufts University
• Board Certified in Diagnostic Imaging (1984) and Vascular and Interventional Radiology (inaugural exam 1995) and has practiced Radiology in the Rochester area since 1986.
• Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine, having passed the inaugural examination given by the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine in October 2017.
• Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (FACLM) and former board member.
• Partner, Borg and Ide Imaging, Rochester, NY
• Lead lecturer for “Jumpstarting Health,”  a 24 CME Lifestyle Medicine and plant-based nutrition course
• He, his wife and three children have thrived on an exclusively plant-based diet since 1991.

Susan Friedman, MD, MPH, FACLM

Director of Clinical Studies and Board Vice Chair

• Trained at Northwestern and Johns Hopkins Universities
• Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester
• Board certified internist and geriatrician
• Lead author of the White Paper on Healthy Aging published in 2018 by the American Geriatrics Society.
• Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine, having passed the inaugural examination given by the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine in October 2017.
• Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (FACLM)
• Completed eCornell Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate at T. Collin Campbell Center for Nutritition Studies.
• Special interest in healthy aging
• Recipient of numerous research grants
• At home, she is happy to find new plant-based recipes for her husband, and 3 boys.

Carol H. Barnett, PhD, JD

Content Expert and Board Secretary/Treasurer

Full-time unpaid volunteer

• BA from St. Bonaventure University (class Valedictorian); PhD in English Language and Literature from Yale University; Law degree (JD) from Yale Law School
• Co-Coordinator with husband Ted D. Barnett, MD of the Rochester Area Vegan Society since 1995
• Vegan since 1991; raised three vegan children
• Curriculum development for 15-Day Whole-Food Plant-Based Jumpstart Program
• Curriculum development for CME program “Jumpstarting Health”
• Curriculum development for alumni program “Plant-Based Together.”
• Involved in town governance and green space protection, most recently as a founding member of the Rush Recreation and Park Association