About LMEd
Lifestyle Medicine Education
Healthcare professionals are uniquely positioned to stem the tide of chronic disease through patient education. In order to be effective, our nation’s clinicians must understand the vital roles exercise, nutrition, sleep, social connectivity, health behavior change, tobacco cessation and responsible alcohol use and other lifestyle interventions play in preventing, treating and managing disease. Through training, clinicians will be poised to treat and prevent the current pandemic of chronic disease and reduce unsustainable healthcare costs.
Jennifer Trilk, Ph.D, FACSM, DipACLM
Dr. Trilk is a professor of Physiology and Exercise Science at University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and is committed to incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into all four years of the medical school curriculum and at the Greenville Health System, Greenville, SC.
Dr. Trilk has presented at national and international conferences on exercise physiology and has published several articles that include examining the effects of exercise on lipid metabolism and the cardiovascular system in adults, promoting physical activity in adolescents in school and community, and investigating international policies to increase physical activity in children and youth. She serves as the Chair of the ACSM Medical Education Curriculum Committee.
Additionally, Dr. Trilk was an invited panelist for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s, “Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity in Medical School: Training Doctors for Prevention-Oriented Care.”
LMEd was born out of a small but mighty group of collaborators who had a passion to provide Lifestyle Medicine evidence-based curricula, networking, and support to medical educators. We aspired to teach future doctors how to prevent, treat, and reverse lifestyle-related chronic diseases. LMEd reached over 140 medical and osteopathic schools with that goal. We now are thrilled to offer LMEd to the medical educator community to fulfill these goals.
Our Mission
LMEd provides open access, evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine curricular resources to build knowledge, skills and advocacy in clinicians for the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related chronic disease.
Our Vision
All clinical students will receive education in lifestyle medicine to prevent and treat lifestyle-related chronic disease.
Nation’s first lifestyle medicine-certified medical school dean appointed at University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
The path Phyllis MacGilvray, MD, DipABLM, took to become the first lifestyle medicine board-certified medical school dean in the country started with her commitment to patients, medical education, research and a passion for advancing evidence-based lifestyle interventions to treat, reverse and prevent chronic diseases.
In July, Dr. MacGilvray was appointed dean of the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville (SOMG), which is one of only two American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) Platinum Plus-certified medical schools in the U.S. Her career spans more than 20 years as a family medicine physician. During that time, she has helped many patients transform their health through lifestyle medicine.
Patients with heart disease, dangerously high cholesterol levels, diabetes, sleep issues and obesity-related conditions like joint pain have seen positive outcomes under Dr. MacGilvray’s care by applying the six pillars of lifestyle medicine— a whole food, plant-predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, positive social connections and avoidance of risky substances.
As dean, MacGilvray’s mission is to promote health for individuals, communities and populations, and to inspire and equip the next generation of physicians to do the same. She is passionate about advancing the field of lifestyle medicine and is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and collaborative culture at the school.