Dr. April Wilson is Chairwoman of the Preventive Medicine Department at Loma Linda University Health. Lifestyle Medicine became an integral part of her life when she saw the power it had to change the trajectory of her patient’s health for the better as a senior medical student leading a community-based intensive therapeutic lifestyle change program. This experience led her to choose training in preventive medicine, with a clinical focus on lifestyle medicine. Dr. Wilson completed both medical school and residency training at Loma Linda University Health and she became a faculty member upon completion of residency. In her early career, she focused on medical student education in motivational interviewing, whole person care and clinical primary care and lifestyle medicine. Then she took a few years off to enjoy being a Mom to her 3 lovely children. In 2017, she returned to work full time as the program director of the LLUH Preventive Medicine Residency. Dr. Wilson piloted and initiated a novel inpatient Lifestyle Medicine service line at LLUH and became a core faculty member in the new Lifestyle Medicine fellowship program. In 2018, Dr. Wilson was among the inaugural ABLM diplomates and in the same year was appointed Chairwoman of her department. In this new leadership role, she has worked to connect and grow the LLUH lifestyle medicine presence in multiple arenas (medical student education, resident and fellow education, clinical medicine and research). She is a member of the ACLM Undergraduate Medical Education Taskforce. She greatly enjoys public speaking on lifestyle and preventions topics at her home institution, across the USA and internationally. In her free time, Dr. Wilson relaxes by reading historical fiction, wakeboarding and extending hospitality through good food and conversation.