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.
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.