President, Wayne Dysinger, MD, MPH
Dr.
Dysinger currently serves as Director of the Lifestyle Medicine
Institute, Chair of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Director
of the Lifestyle Medicine Track of the Family and Preventive Medicine
Residency at Loma Linda University. He actively practices, teaches and
performs research around a variety of Lifestyle Medicine topics. He is
a member of the AMA's Health Lifestyles Advisory Group, and is a board
member of Lifestyle Center of America. He is Chair of the Graduate
Medical Education Committee and member of the Lifestyle Medicine
Taskforce for the American College of Preventive Medicine. Dr.
Dysinger has served as co-director of the Dartmouth Hitchcock
Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency, director of the Division of
Preventive and Community Medicine, and Medical Director for the Capital
Region Family Health Center. He is board certified in Preventive
Medicine/Public Health, and in Family Practice.
President Elect, Liana Lianov, MD, MPH, FACPM
Dr. Lianov is Vice President of Clinical Operations at Berkeley HeartLab and Assistant Professor at the University of California Davis Health System. She previously served as the Chief Medical Officer for Quality Improvement at the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and as Director of the Healthy Lifestyles and the Medicine and Public Health Divisions at the American Medical Association. Much of her career has been dedicated to directing the cancer and cardiovascular disease prevention programs at the California state level. She currently serves on the Board of the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and chairs the ACPM Lifestyle Medicine Task Force. Her professional passions include creating clinical and public health supports for sustainable health behavior change; promoting physician/health care worker health; and implementing the principles positive psychology for improved health outcomes. Dr. Lianov is board-certified in Preventive Medicine/Public Health and in Internal Medicine and completed a psychiatry fellowship focused in cognitive behavioral therapy. Executive Director/ Past President,
Marc Braman, MD, MPH
Dr. Braman is a founding member of ACLM, and has served as Chair of the Committee on Practice and in the office of Secretary. His passion is building better healthcare that will get better treatment to those who need it. To accomplish this Dr. Braman has focused on building the infrastructure of ACLM for long term success as well as building collaborative relationships with other organizations and key individuals in healthcare today. Dr. Braman has developed and implemented Lifestyle Medicine services in private practice, group practice, and hospital affiliated settings, and is currently in private practice in Oregon. He is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at Loma Linda University (LLU) and is board certified in Preventive Medicine/Public Health and in Occupational Medicine.
Secretary, George Guthrie, MD, MPH, CDE, CNS
Dr Guthrie serves as Assistant director of the family medicine residency at Florida Hospital in Orlando, Florida. His focus is on teaching lifestyle medicine perspectives and directing the orthopedic learning experiences to the residents. In the last few years Dr Guthrie has had the privilege of being involved in the development of several lifestyle change programs including the Coronary Health Improvement Project (CHIP), The Wellspring Diabetes Program, and the CREATION Health program. This has led to the opportunity to speak on lifestyle medicine around the United States and other English speaking countries for a variety of audiences. Dr Guthrie has sought to maintain excellence in nutritional knowledge and its application to the treatment of disease. This led him to obtain and maintain certification from the Certification Board of Nutrition Specialists (CBNS) and as a Certified Diabetic Educator (CDE).