Michelle Hauser, MD, MS, MPA, FACP, FACLM, DipABLM, Chef, is President-elect of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine where she is also Obesity Medicine Director of the Stanford Lifestyle and Weight Management Center. She created the Medgroup (Lifestyle Medicine & Obesity Medicine) Program and successfully implemented it 2 health care systems as a series of shared/group medical appointments and 1:1 patient visits to help adults with obesity lose weight and prevent and treat obesity-related comorbidities. She has led over 1,500 group medical appointments in her career and continues conducting 2-4 each week. Dr. Hauser also led the creation and implementation of a lifestyle-only program at Stanford which is conducted as a series of 12 weekly, 45-minute, group visits covering healthy lifestyle changes for adults with overweight and obesity.
Dr. Hauser is Course Director for the Stanford Culinary Medicine (Teaching Kitchen) Elective—a quarter-long, hands on, Culinary Medicine/Lifestyle Medicine (LM) course at Stanford currently in its 8th year. The popular Culinary Medicine Curriculum (CMC) she published with ACLM in 2019 is based on this course. The CMC has been downloaded >10,000 times and used in >100 countries for health professional education and patient care. In 2025, the second edition of the CMC will be published along with >100 educational videos (all freely available), further reducing barriers to dietary changes that are as delicious as they are healthful. A 20-hour Stanford CME/CE Culinary Medicine/LM course for MDs/DOs, RNs, PAs, and RDNs will also be launched in 2025. She is also actively engaged in other aspects of medical education at the student, resident, fellow, and attending levels. She is a member of the Stanford Lifestyle Medicine Program team and participates in multidisciplinary, LM collaborations at Stanford.
Dr. Hauser is a prevention researcher. She combines her skills to help patients move away from lifestyles that lead to chronic disease and toward those that promote health and well-being. She has served as Study Physician for 4 randomized controlled trials (RCTs). She is currently Co-Investigator on a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute RCT investigating the effects of co-treatment of food insecurity and obesity among Spanish-speaking Latina women on weight loss and cardiovascular disease outcomes. The study
intervention utilizes LM group visits conducted in Spanish as part of the protocol. Her academic publications include high-impact, original research (top 1% of citations in Clinical Medicine by Web of Science) in major medical (JAMA) and nutrition (AJCN) journals. Overall, she has 25 peer-reviewed publications and 30 peer-reviewed oral and poster presentations.
Dr. Hauser is a Fellow of the ACLM, ABLM Diplomate, and previously served on the ACLM Board of Directors (2015-2018) before becoming the current President-elect and returning to the Board. She is an invited fellow of the American College of Physicians. She completed her medical degree, residency, the Zuckerman Fellows Program in Leadership & Public Service and a Master of Public Policy and Administration degree at Harvard. She also completed a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Clinical Research degree and the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Stanford.