2011 ACLM Officers

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President, Liana Lianov, MD, MPH, FACPM

Dr. Liana Lianov serves as the President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the General Preventive Medicine/Public Health Regent on the board of the American College of Preventive Medicine. She is Professor in the Departments of Public Health Sciences and Internal Medicine at the University of California Davis.

Her company, HealthTypeTM, offers consulting services and develops innovative interventions, including mobile technologies, for helping patients make sustainable health behavior changes. She also coordinates the health and wellness special interest group of the Association of Psychological Type International.

Her previous roles include Vice President of Clinical Operations at Berkeley HeartLab-- where she directed a national cardiovascular disease and lifestyle management program, Director of the Healthy Lifestyles Division at the American Medical Association, and chief of the California Heart Disease and Stroke Prevention Program and women’s cancer screening programs at the California Department of Health Services.

She is board certified in both preventive medicine/public health and internal medicine and has completed a psychiatry fellowship.



President Elect, David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP

Dr. David L. Katz is the founding director of Yale University’s Prevention Research Center. He received his BA from Dartmouth College (1984; Magna Cum Laude); his MD from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine (1988); and his MPH from the Yale University School of Public Health (1993). Katz is Director and founder of the Integrative Medicine Center at Griffin Hospital (2000) in Derby, CT, and founder and president of the non-profit Turn the Tide Foundation.

Known internationally for expertise in nutrition, weight management, and chronic disease prevention, as well as integrative care and patient-centered care models, Katz is active in patient care, research, teaching, and public health practice. He established and formerly directed one of the nation’s first combined residency programs in Internal Medicine and Preventive Medicine, and served as Director of Medical Studies in Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine for 8 years.

Dr. Katz is a prominent voice in health & medicine in the media.  He has published scientific articles, textbook chapters, newspaper columns and 12 books to date. He has consulted on obesity control and chronic disease prevention and is a peer reviewer for numerous leading medical journals. 


Past 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.

Executive Director, 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).