WELCOME to the first national medical specialty society for healthcare professionals who utilize lifestyle interventions as the primary therapeutic tool in the treatment and management of disease.

Our members are engaged in practice, teaching, and research on all levels and in various areas of healthcare.  Many are the pioneers and experts in the new field of Lifestyle Medicine.

Specialists in Lifestyle Medicine are knowledgeable and skilled in the evidence-based use of nutrition, exercise, stress management, and other lifestyle modalities in the treatment of medical problems.  The vast majority of the healthcare problems burdening our society today are caused by disease-promoting lifestyles.  The most effective and most rational treatment is to utilize health-promoting lifestyle interventions as primary treatment.

ACLM seeks to get better, more effective healthcare to the millions who so desperately need it by developing the new medical specialty of Lifestyle Medicine.

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Vision Statement

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine provides leadership and assistance, facilitating lifestyle medicine clinicians’ pursuits of continuing medical education, practice knowledge, leadership skills, and research information needed to provide quality patient care and best counsel patients with respect to lifestyle-related diseases.

Mission Statement

The American College of Lifestyle Medicine serves its members by advancing the field of lifestyle medicine, promoting excellence in clinical practice and advocating on behalf of medical and public policy issues related to the practice and promotion of lifestyle medicine.

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T. Colin Campbell, PhD
Co-director & Professor Emeritus,
Cornell-Oxford-China Diet and Health Project,
Cornell University

David Jenkins, MD, PhD, DSc
Professor,
Research Chair, Nutrition and Metabolism,
Director, Risk Factor Modification Centre,
University of Toronto

Dean Ornish, MD
Founder & President,
Preventive Medicine Research Instititute,
Clinical Professor of Medicine,
University of California, San Francisco

James Prochaska, PhD
Director,
Cancer Prevention Research Consortium,
Professor, Clinical and
Health Psychology,
University of Rhode Island

Walter Willett, MD, DrPH
Chair,
Department of Nutrition,
Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology,
Harvard School of Public Health,
Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

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