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ACLM is the nation’s medical professional society advancing lifestyle medicine as the foundation for a redesigned, high-value and equitable healthcare delivery system, leading to whole-person health. ACLM educates, equips, empowers and supports its members through quality, evidence-based education, certification, research and practice support to identify and eradicate the root cause of chronic disease, with a clinical outcome goal of health restoration as opposed to disease management.

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The Uncomfortable Truth MAHA Is Exposing About U.S. Healthcare

Forbes: Dr. Sachin Jain writes about the contradiction in health care when it comes to prevention lifestyle interventions and payment.

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Why Readiness Is Not a Prerequisite for Lifestyle Change

Medscape: ACLM President Padmaja Patel makes the case that motivation and engagement are not static traits to merely screen for at the beginning of a patient encounter. They represent a mindset that clinicians can actively build by educating, empowering, and supporting individuals through the full activation arc:

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How lifestyle interventions reverse type 2 diabetes

KevinMD: Dr. Mahima Gulati shares a patient story in this column on why it is time to change the clinical goal of type 2 diabetes treatment from managing disease to actively pursuing remission whenever possible.

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Your Doctor Might Be Able to Take You Off Diabetes Meds

Epoch Times: An ACLM study suggests that reducing or stopping diabetes medications in some patients with Type 2 diabetes can be both safe and achievable.

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16,000 members and counting

ACLM is uniting clinicians, educators, health systems, organizations and policy leaders to build a future where evidence-based lifestyle medicine forms the foundation of healthcare.

Join our 16,000+ members helping to advance real, lasting change. With members like you, we’re creating a new healthcare paradigm that empowers clinicians, supports patients, and enables communities to thrive.

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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) today announced the launch of Project Remission, a call to action to shift the goal of chronic disease care from symptom management to the possibility of achieving remission and health restoration.

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Previously, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine partnered with accredited institutions to offer CME/CE credit for its courses. Joint accreditation allows the organization to accredit its own interprofessional continuing education (IPCE) activities, enhancing its ability to deliver high-quality, team-based training that improves care and patient outcomes.

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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) is the recipient of the 2026 American Association of Medical Society Executives (AAMSE) Profiles of Excellence Award in the Education Category, Large Organization Division, for its Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum (LMRC). The award recognizes medical professional societies that advance the field of organized medicine and improve the lives of physicians and the patients they serve.

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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) welcomes the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Physician Fee Schedule proposed rule announced yesterday, which includes long-awaited provisions that can provide greater access to lifestyle medicine for Medicare beneficiaries and improve clinician payment for lifestyle medicine’s team-based, whole-person care delivery.

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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) today announced the release of a new resource designed to help employers improve health outcomes, strengthen workforce performance and manage rising healthcare costs.

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Dr. John Findley, a lifestyle medicine innovator and physician executive with more than 20 years of experience advancing value-based and whole-person care, will lead ACLM into its next phase of growth and impact.

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The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) today announced that Susan Benigas will transition from her role as chief executive officer to CEO emeritus and senior advisor after more than 12 years of transformative leadership for the medical professional society.

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A lifestyle medicine payment breakthrough in 2026

Lifestyle medicine is moving from the margins of the payment system into the mainstream architecture of federal healthcare transformation.

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Advocacy & Policy

Shaping national conversations: ACLM’s journey with AMA

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Clinical & Community Integration

Transforming menopause care through shared medical appointments

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Membership

A conversation with new ACLM CEO Dr. John Findley 

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