Catherine has been a nurse since 2005, where she’s had extensive experience in the ICU nurse and other acute care areas.  As she’s worked with this acutely sick patient population, she realized the growing need and importance for prevention of disease. 
Catherine and Dr Patel partnered in 2020 to start CT Lifestyle Medicine – a practice that focuses on the pillars of Lifestyle Medicine, including a plant-based diet.  The practice also offers primary care and community support.

I am passionate about helping women and their families gain control of their health. I meet you where you are and together we build personalized, integrative plans that focus on building foundations of optimal health. My lifelong interest in promoting and encourgaing healthy lifestyles began as a young gymnast years ago. I competed at the elite level, was a member of the U.S. National Team, and earned a full scholarship to the Stanford University Women’s Gymnastics Team. After four years as a Division I NCAA student-athlete, I began training and racing triathlons while earning my master’s degree. After graduating I helped build sports programs for kids in Japan, organized triathlons and led bike tours in the Southwest, and managed the sports program for Special Olympics Nevada. I then spent three years inspiring audience members performing as a professional acrobat in Cirque du Soleil’s KÀ at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, while also continueing to participate in full-distance triathlons.  I was then introduced to naturopathic medicine during a 4,500-mile, self-supported bicycle trip with my husband where we witnessed the unequivocal interconnectedness of the environment and health. I was motivated to learn more and earned my naturopathic doctorate degree from Bastyr University while growing our family. I now have my own, small private practice in Maple Valley, WA where I encourage, coach, and help patients live their best life in person and via telemedicine. As a mom of three, I understand the juggle of home, work, school, play, self-care, and all the roles that come with being a mother. My passion is helping you navigate your own juggle so that you can optimize both your own and your family’s health. I cannot wait to hear your story!  

I am a plant- based holistic nutriitonist and fitness coach with over a decade of experience. My team and I work with clients globally to help with disease reversal, weight management, holistic nutrition and body transformation. We have worked with national level athletes, celebrities and people from various backgroups, to help them transcition to a holistic plant- based lifestyle for optimal performance. 
My team member’s operate globally and have worked with over 10000 clients in the past decade. We intend to help clients not only follow a ‘diet plan’, but make lifestyle changes that are sustainable and backed by science for optimal performance and health. 

Dr. Leah Macklin has been vegetarian since 2002, and vegan (whole food, plant based, no oil) since 2019. After her father had open heart surgery, she tried Dr. Essylsten’s diet prescription- her cholesterol improved by 100 points, so there was no going back. She certified in Lifestyle Medicine in 2021, and is committed to using it in practice.  She grew up in Dunwoody, Georgia, and obtained her undergraduate and master’s degrees from Georgia State University. She attended medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM-GA), and completed her residency in family medicine in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She is board-certified in Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. She has a passion for nutrition and physical activity as a way to prevent and treat chronic medical conditions.  Ella habla español! She sees patients six years of age and older. She is experienced in many different types of care, including joint injections, skin care, and contraception management. Dr. Macklin likes to spend her free time camping, Jiu Jitsu, wakeboarding, and skiing. She also loves cooking with her husband, and walking her dog, Gogo.

I am a board-certified family physician practicing in Valdez Alaska. I wasn’t happy with the status quo of medicine and went back to further my education by getting a masters degree in Integrative Medicine from George Washington University and becoming board certified by the American Board of Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine. I focus on an integrative and holistic approach to wellness with nutrition education being at the very center of my treatments. My focus is to prevent and reverse metabolic diseases with diet and lifestyle changes and I challenge my patients to focus on these things. 

My name is Kristann and I am a medical doctor (MD) board-certified with the American Academy of Family Medicine and the American Board of Integrative Medicine. I am also a Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner as well as a registered dietician (RD) and a physician acupuncturist.  I did my undergraduate studies at Simmons College, where I earned a bachelor’s degree in nutrition science. After graduating, I completed a dietetic internship and worked as a registered dietician with many community-based nutrition programs. I then completed two Maternal and Child Health Fellowships one in Adolescent Nutrition and the other in Nutrition in Children with Developmental Disabilities.   
 
I went on to receive my medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and completed my family medicine residency at Lehigh Valley Health Network. During this time, I began studying other forms of healing, such as acupuncture, medical group education, homeopathy, herbal medicine and functional medicine. My research focus during residency was integrating these modalities into a primary care setting for which I was given the Family Medicine Resident Award for Scholarship.  After completing my residency, I worked as an integrative family doctor in Pennsylvania and New Jersey for many years, where I provided primary care and nutrition services for families as well as educational programs for the community.  I established my own practice, Red Hill Medical+Wellness, in 2015. 

I count myself amongst the lucky ones. In contrast, to most medical school educations, I had the privilege of spending hundreds of hours in nutrition during my doctorate at Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and it was there that I first became exposed to the likes of Ornish, Esselstyn, Campbell, Goldhamer and others, to name a few. The underlying tenants that I practice, embrace a philosophy of health and wellness rooted in prevention. To this end, nutrition is central to all health and a Whole Food Plant Based orientation is quite simply, the best way to accomplish this task.    I remember an instance several years ago when my son, Silas, came home from school, recounting a story of one of his 6-year old classmates, who brought not one, but two cans of Mountain Dew in his packed lunch. As I sighed and braced myself for the inevitable, why-can’t-I-have-soda-in-my-lunch question, I pondered how best to answer his concerns. But, he never asked that question. Instead he stated with some level of resignation in his voice, “Well, mom, I guess that’s what we should expect from some kids, after all, his mom isn’t a Naturopathic doctor.”   In my mind, that moment crystallizes a couple of principles that seem to characterize the WFPB lifestyle and my own core values. (1) Practice what you preach and be the change you wish to see in the world. (2) Change is often caught rather than taught, often when we least expect it, even though it can seem difficult or even insurmountable.  

Dr. Sheline is a family physician who switched to doing strictly lifestyle medicine consults in 2017 after over 30 years of writing lots of prescriptions. He recommends whole foods plant-based (WFPB) nutrition to all his patients, but recognizes that changing behaviors like eating and exercising is not easy, and will provide patients with resources to make changes at their own pace.  Dr. Sheline switched to a WFPB diet in 2015, and both he and his patients have been very successful in using healthy nutrition to treat various problems including high cholesterol, high blood pressure, diabetes and pre-diabetes, overweight and obesity, reflux, kidney stones, coronary artery disease, and depression and anxiety. Our bodies can heal themselves, usually without the need for medication!

Marla Friedman Ph.D. (Psychology) is NYS licensed and Nationally Certified in Clinical Mental Health Couseling with over thirty years in practice. She is a Certified Nutritionist, an Associate of the Viktor Frankl Institure for Meaning Centered Therapy, a Certified Trauma Professional trained in EMDR, an Advanced Fellow and Board Certified in Anti-Aging, Regenerative and Functional Medicine (ABAAHP),  holds a Certification from the Institute for Functional Medicine in Applying Functional Medicine in Clinical Practice, and is Certified in Plant-Based Nutrition from eCornell. Dr. Friedman offers individual, couples, and group psychotherapy integrating the benefits of in-depth emotional and nutritional helaing. 

Dr. Peacock is a chiropractor and online health coach located in Orange County, CA. Her passion is helping people fit a plant based diet to adhere to whatever goals they have. She’s a former US Olympic team alternate and national champion in swimming. Her specialty aligns with helping her clients create a plan that allows them to optimally use a plant based diet to meet their exercise needs. Dr. Peacock creates indvidualized meal plans to fit your goals and goes in depth on how to meal plan and prepare for it. She also specializes in low toxin living, and has created a step by step process in decreasing environmental toxins in everyday life.       
 
Stephanie attained her Doctorate in Chiropractic from Southern California University of Health Sciences. She sees clients local to the Orange County area via mobile chiropractic to their home. Her treatment involves soft tissue work, adjustments, and mobilizations. Stephanie did her residency at TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, CA, medically supervising water fasting patients. She does online consults for fasting along with the nutrition and low toxin program. 

I have personally followed a whole food, plant-based diet for the last two decades and have over time gotten most of my family to follow along most of the time.  I have helped many patients improve and sometimes reverse their diabetes, atherosclerosis, arthritis, cancers and mood disorders by adopting an anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, high fiber, high nutrition density, low calorie density, whole food, plant based diet.
As the founding Program Director for the DeTar/Texas A&M Family Medicine Residency program, I train 24 soon to be Board Certified Family Medicine specialists to understand the primacy of patient lifestyle choices in managing and reversing the majority of ailments that plague Americans today.