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/ 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.
Immediate Past President, John H. Kelley, Jr., MD, MPH
Dr. Kelly is the founding President of ACLM. He is also the founding President of Lifestyle Health Education, Inc, a non-profit Lifestyle Medicine Center. He served as an Assistant Research Professor in the Nutrition Department for the Lifestyle Research Initiative at Loma Linda University, where he conducted a multi-center outcomes analysis of lifestyle centers in the U.S. and is now using randomized studies to investigate the use of therapeutic lifestyle interventions in the treatment and management of type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome and related diseases. He is currently involved in a number of trials in the U.S. and abroad. In 2004 he received an AMA Excellence in Medicine Award for his work in starting ACLM. He is board certified in Preventive Medicine/Public Health. Secretary, David Ferriss, MD, MPH
Dr. Ferriss is a Vice President and Medical Officer for Clinical Program Development for CIGNA HealthCare. Dr. Ferriss provides physician leadership to the development of new clinical programs that further CIGNA's health advocacy strategy. During his fifteen year tenure with CIGNA, Dr. Ferriss has served as Medical Director for CIGNA HealthCare of Colorado, Associate National Medical Director for CIGNA HealthCare, as the Specialty Medical Director responsible for CIGNA's disease management, transplant management, and health facilitation programs, and as a National Accounts Sales Medical Executive. He is board-certified in preventive medicine.