Elisabeth Fontaine, MD, is the Medical Director of Lifestyle Medicine and RiseVT at Northwestern Medical Center. A founding member of RiseVT, a community-based approach to embracing healthy lifestyles, she is also the Medical Director for RiseVT at the state level with OneCareVT. RiseVt is Community Collaborative to encourage healthy Lifestyle. She opened a Lifestyle Medicine Clinic at Northwestern medical Center in January 2018. Dr. Fontaine is Board Certified in OB GYN with a successful practice for 23 years not only delivering babies and treating women, yet also educating each patient on healthy behaviors. She is Board Certified in Lifestyle Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She has a Master’s Degree in Exercise Physiology and Obesity. She has completed the Duke Leadership program in Integrative Medicine. Her interest as a physician has been in keeping her patients healthy with primary prevention – RiseVT. Her work with physician colleagues has connected this primary prevention approach to primary care as critical to the care continuum. She is dedicated to coaching a village to health. In her leisure time Dr. Fontaine, with family and friends, is very active traveling the world with biking and hiking always a part of her life. She wants everyone to feel as good as she does about living a healthy lifestyle – where healthy living is part of everyone’s life.