President

Catherine Collings, MD, FACC, MS, DipABLM

Dr. Collings is Director of Lifestyle Medicine for Silicon Valley Medical Development and El Camino Health Medical Network in the San Francisco Bay Area.  She serves as current President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. 

Dr. Collings has dual board certifications in Cardiology and Lifestyle Medicine.  She holds a graduate degree in exercise physiology, as well as professional culinary and wellness certifications.  She received her education from the University of California, University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University Medical Center.  She is a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha National Medical Honor Society.

She has served in multiple capacities and leadership positions at El Camino Hospital over the past 25 years including Medical Director of the Cardiopulmonary Wellness Center, Women’s Heart Health, and the Heart and Vascular Institute and participates in the American College of Cardiology’s Nutrition and Lifestyle Task Force.  Within ACLM, she co-chaired the initiation of ACLM’s Education Committee and has participated in course reviews.

She now focuses exclusively on Lifestyle Medicine consultations, culinary medicine, and developing clinical Lifestyle Medicine programs that are both tech and human connect-enabled.

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President Elect

Elizabeth P. Frates, MD, FACLM, DipABLM

Beth Frates, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, is lifestyle medicine pioneer, trained in physiatry and health and wellness coaching.  At Harvard Medical School, she created the first Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group in 2008, which is still thriving today. She is an award-winning teacher at Harvard Medical School, where she is an assistant clinical professor, and she developed and taught a college Lifestyle Medicine curriculum at the Harvard Extension School, one of the most popular courses offered at the school. She was voted president of ACLM in August 2020.

Dr. Frates authored a Lifestyle Medicine syllabus, which can be downloaded through the ACLM website, to serve as a template for other instructors and professors. In addition, she co-authored The Lifestyle Medicine Handbook: An Introduction to the Power of Healthy Habits, which was ranked in the top 20 by Book Authority for medical books released in 2018. She also co-created Lifestyle Medicine 101, a curriculum which is free and accessible through the ACLM website.  

As Director of Wellness Programming at the Stroke Institute for Research and Recovery at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, Dr. Frates has created and implemented a 12-step wellness program, PAVING the Path to Wellness™ for patients and providers. She is also Director of Lifestyle Medicine and Wellness for the Department of Surgery at Mass General Hospital, and co-author of the book Life After Stroke: The Guide to Recovering Your Health and Preventing Another Stroke as well as co-author of three chapters on behavior change in different medical textbooks. In addition, Dr. Frates has her own Lifestyle Medicine consulting/coaching practice where she sees patients 1:1 and in groups.

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Past President

Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH, FACLM, DipABLM

Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH, FACLM, DipABLM, is Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer of Community Wellbeing and the Blue Zones Institute for Adventist Health, a faith-based, nonprofit integrated health system serving more than 80 communities on the West Coast and Hawaii. Dr. Shurney is ACLM’s immediate past-president and continues to serve as a board member and leader of the organization’s work to address health disparities.

Previously, he held the position of Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President, Clinical Affairs at Foodsmart by Zipongo; Chief Medical Director / Executive Director for Global Health Benefits and Corporate Wellness for Cummins, Inc.; and Chief Medical Director, Employee Health Plan for Vanderbilt University and Medical Center. At Vanderbilt he also held joint faculty appointments as Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Internal Medicine and Public Health, and Adjunct Faculty, Owens Graduate School of Management, and was appointed to chair the Tennessee Diabetes Prevention and Health Improvement Board.  He is also the former Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of Medical Affairs for Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan, and the most recent chair of the Business Strategies Committee for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)/National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP).

He attended Loma Linda University, and received his medical degree at Howard University College of Medicine. He holds Masters’ Degrees in Business and in Public Health from the University of Detroit/Mercy and the Medical College of Wisconsin, respectively. A fellow in the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, he is board certified in both Preventive Medicine and in Lifestyle Medicine. He serves on numerous other boards including the Bon Secours-Mercy Health Foundation, the Health Enhancement Research Organization (HERO), the National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP), and the Population Health Alliance (PHA). 

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Secretary

Michelle Tollefson, MD, FACOG, DipABLM, FACLM

Michelle Tollefson, MD, FACOG, DipABLM, FACLM, is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Denver, CO, and a Professor in the Health Professions Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver where she created and oversees the Lifestyle Medicine Program and the Wellness Coaching and Lifestyle Medicine Pathway.

Dr. Tollefson is a graduate of Creighton University, where she received both her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees.  She completed an obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, and received her board certification in this specialty. She has also received her board certification from the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and a fellowship in Lifestyle Medicine from ACLM.

As an ACLM member for more than a decade, she founded and co-chairs the Women’s Health Member Interest Group as well as the Pre-Professional Lifestyle Medicine Education Member Interest Group. She serves as the ACLM Board Secretary and serves on the Education and Membership Committees.

She is also a breast cancer survivor and thriver through the power of lifestyle medicine.

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Treasurer

Koushik R. Reddy, MD, DipABLM, FACLM

Koushik Reddy, MD, DipABLM, FACLM, is Director of Interventional Cardiology at the James A. Haley Veteran’s Hospital in Tampa, FL. He graduated from Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, India in 2006, completed residency at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Queens, NY, and has been in practice for 12 years. 

After being involved with cardiovascular care and advanced cardiac interventions for years with the Veterans’ Administration, he established a cardiology-based lifestyle clinic called Cardiology HEAL – Healthy Eating and Living. In addition, Dr. Reddy integrated Lifestyle Medicine and whole food plant-based nutrition into the core curriculum of the cardiology fellowship at the Tampa VA. Recently, he founded the Plant Based Nutrition Movement, a community-based nonprofit organization that is working to take the power of plant-based nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine to the grassroots level.

Dr. Reddy is currently ACLM Board Treasurer as well as founder and co-chair of the ACLM Armed Forces/Veteran Health Administration/Department of Defense Member Interest Group.

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Young Director 

Marsha-Gail Davis, MD

Marsha-Gail Davis, MD, is a primary care internist and preventionist. Originally from the island of Jamaica, she received her MD from the University of California, San Diego, and completed her residency in the Yale Primary Care Residency Program. She is currently completing additional training in the UCSD Preventive Medicine Residency Program while serving in the role of Chief Resident. At ACLM, in addition to serving on the Board as Young Director, Dr. Davis is a leader of the Health Equity Through Lifestyle Medicine (HEAL) Initiative.

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Director 

Melissa Mondala, MD, MHA, MS

Melissa Mondala, MD, MHA, MS, DipABLM, is a triple-board-certified specialist in family medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and primary care psychiatry. She is one of the youngest Lifestyle Medicine fellows in the nation and is a strong community health advocate. She is the co-owner of Dr. Lifestyle Direct Primary Care Clinic in Newport Beach, CA. She serves as faculty at Loma Linda University Preventive/Lifestyle Medicine Department. 

Dr. Mondala obtained her medical degree as well as her Masters of Health Administration degree from Chicago Medical School, and completed her family medicine residency and the first Lifestyle Medicine Fellowship at Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA.

To augment her training, she completed observerships at Weimar Institute’s NEWSTART; TrueNorth; and St. Helena’s TakeTEN, three intensive lifestyle change programs. She also has served the underserved in California, China, Guam and the Philippines. Dr. Mondala has planted seeds of change in the community through medical school, veg fest, and virtual summit lectures. She is a motivational speaker and has been featured in popular media.  

In addition to her board role with ACLM, she contributed to ACLM’s Lifestyle Medicine Residency curriculum. She served as President (2018-2019) and Secretary (2017-2018) for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Professionals in Training (PiT) Division, now known as the ACLM-Trainees division. She carried out PiT’s mission to expand PiT nationally and globally through Lifestyle Medicine Interest Groups (LMIGs), social media campaigns, and personally inspiring a neighboring medical school.

Director

Theresa Stone, MD, FACP

Theresa Stone, MD, FACP, is a practicing Internist in Washington, DC. Dr. Stone graduated from Georgetown University School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine residency at Washington Hospital. She is the Medical Director and cofounder of the Fresh & Savory Culinary and Lifestyle Medicine Shared Medical Appointment Program, a pop-up teaching kitchen at Medstar Health. 

At MedStar Institute for Innovation, Dr. Stone headed a taskforce to bring wellness initiatives to the large 10- hospital system and has had the opportunity to work with colleagues on multiple Lifestyle Medicine initiatives. These initiatives include: a Georgetown School of Medicine Mind Body Medicine Elective; “Mindfulness Mondays, “a relaxation technique introduction for several Georgetown University Hospital Nursing Units; the Physician Wellbeing Taskforce; and “Wellness Wagon,” a program designed to promote healthy lifestyle interventions and build connectedness for Medstar Health associates in several multi-specialty outpatient ambulatory centers. 

Terri is a board member and serves on the Wellness Committee of the Medical Society of District of Columbia. She serves on the Culinary Advisory Board at AARP. In addition to her board role with ACLM, she is co-chair of the Health Equity Achieved Through Lifestyle Medicine (HEAL) Initiative and serves on the ACLM Health Disparities Solution Summit Leadership Team.

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Director of Allied Health

Kelly Freeman, RN

Kelly Freeman is the ACLM director representing allied health members. She is faculty at Indiana University School of Nursing in Indianapolis, IN, and also runs a CDC-recognized Diabetes Prevention Program through Profound Health Solutions LLC. 

She attended the University of Nebraska as an undergraduate and received a Masters’ degree as a primary care geriatric nurse practitioner at Indiana University.  She also holds two post-graduate certificates, public health and nursing education, both from Indiana University and is currently studying Health Policy and Management through IU Fairbanks School of Public Health as a PhD student. 

Kelly became an active member of ACLM in 2013 and founded the RN/APRN Member Interest Group.  She serves many roles in her own community, including advocacy and leadership, working toward a statewide broader recognition of Lifestyle Medicine among health care professionals, legislators, payer sources, health systems, schools, and the public.   

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Director

Craig McDougall, MD

Craig McDougall, MD, DipABLM, is an internist in Beaverton, OR, and is affiliated with Oregon Health and Science University Hospital. He received his medical degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine, did his residency at Oregon Health & Science University and has been in practice 10 years.

Before joining OHSU’s faculty, Dr. McDougall worked as a primary care physician and was the physician lead of a Lifestyle Medicine consult clinic at Kaiser Permanente in its Northwest Region. Most recently, he was at ZOOM+Care helping develop an adult primary care practice emphasizing food and movement as medicine.

The last two years, Dr. McDougall has been working at Oregon Health and Science University as the medical director of a primary care clinic. 

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Director

Ted Barnett, MD, FACLM, DipABLM

Having practiced Radiology in the Rochester, NY, area since 2006, Ted Barnett, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, is the founder and president of Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute (RLMI) and the founder and CEO of Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Group (RLMG).

Dr. Barnett received a BS in Biology from Yale University in 1976 and went on to earn his MD from Tufts University School of Medicine, followed by internship at Framingham Union Hospital, and Diagnostic Radiology residency at Tufts-New England Medical Center and the Boston VA. Known as the “high-tech doctor with low-tech solutions,” he is board certified in Diagnostic Imaging, Vascular & Interventional Radiology, and Lifestyle Medicine.

In the age of COVID, his six-week, 12-CME, in-person plant-based nutrition course, which has been given 20 times and reached over 900 people, has been adapted to a remote-learning format which now includes 10 hours of live interaction with patients in RLMI’s 15-Day Whole-Food Plant-Based Jumpstart.

In addition to being a member of ACLM’s T2D Expert Statement Consensus Panel, Dr. Barnett is the chair of the T2D Remission Task Force and is incredibly proud of ACLM’s recently issued Type 2 Diabetes Bill of Rights!

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Director

MIchelle McMacken, MD, DipABLM

Michelle McMacken, MD, DipABLM, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. An honors graduate of Yale University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. McMacken practices internal medicine in the Adult Primary Care Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, part of the largest safety-net health care system in the United States. She also directs Bellevue's Adult Weight Management Program and Plant-Based Lifestyle Medicine Program. 

Through a 2014 NYU Merrin Fellowship grant, Dr. McMacken studied evidence-based nutrition and developed a nutrition curriculum for her internal medicine faculty colleagues. She has received the NYU Department of Medicine faculty “Teacher of the Year” award three times for her work with physician trainees and has presented on nutrition at the American College of Physicians, the American Diabetes Association, and other national academic conferences. 

In addition to her ACLM Board role, she has been featured in several documentary films and popular nutrition-related websites and podcasts. 

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Director

Neha Pathak, MD, DipABLM

Neha Pathak, MD, DipABLM, is an honors graduate of Harvard College and Weill Medical College of Cornell University and currently serves as Medical Editor and writer for WebMD and Medscape. Board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine, she began practicing lifestyle medicine within the Department of Veterans Affairs as part of the VA’s Whole Health program to bring access to whole health care to vulnerable veterans. Currently, she is a member of ACLM's Women's Health Member Interest Group (MIG) and co-editor of a textbook volume focused on Lifestyle Medicine and women's health.

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Director

Padmaja Patel, MD, DipABLM

Padmaja Patel, MD, DipABLM, has been a practicing internist in Midland, TX, for nearly two decades. She completed her E.N.T. training at M.S. University in Baroda, India and her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Missouri, Columbia. She currently serves as the Medical Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Center at Midland Health and has been an advocate for offering a variety of comprehensive lifestyle intervention programs under physician supervision. In her private practice, she strives to offer high-quality, evidence-based care that incorporates the core principles of Lifestyle Medicine. 

Dr. Patel co-founded Healthy City, a non-profit organization, to raise awareness of the benefits of plant-based nutrition within her community. She also serves as Vice President of the Midland Quality Alliance, a clinically integrated network of physicians, and is on the Health and Wellness committee of Priority Midland, a local community initiative

Director

Jessica Matthews, DBH, MS, NBC-HWC

Jessica Matthews, DBH, MS, NBC-HWC, DipACLM, is assistant professor and program director in the College of Health Sciences at Point Loma Nazarene University, San Diego, CA, where she has developed and implemented a graduate degree program in addition to creating and teaching courses in Lifestyle Medicine and health and wellness coaching. She also serves as director of integrative health coaching at UC San Diego Health in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, where she leads the development, delivery and management of health coaching within clinical practice and research, to include overseeing a team of coaches within the Centers for Integrative Health. 

Dr. Matthews received her doctorate in behavioral health with a focus in clinical integrated care from Arizona State University and she holds numerous professional certifications including as a national board-certified health and wellness coach. With a background in exercise science, she has served as a consultant and senior advisor for leading fitness and wellness organizations and has regularly contributed to numerous national media outlets. 

Dr. Matthews serves as lead faculty in the area of health behavior change for the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum and as founding chair of the Health and Wellness Coaches Member Interest Group. Additionally, she serves on the board of directors for the National Board for Health and Wellness Coaching.

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