Padmaja Patel, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, CPE, is a board-certified internist and nationally recognized physician leader specializing in Lifestyle Medicine, Whole-Person Health, and value-based care transformation.

She currently serves as President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and Chief Medical Officer of Nudj Health, an ACLM-certified Lifestyle Treatment Program focused on scalable, evidence-based lifestyle interventions.

Dr. Patel holds multiple leadership and advisory roles at the intersection of clinical care, quality measurement, and health policy. She is President of the Midland Quality Alliance, a physician-led ACO-REACH organization in Midland, Texas, and serves as a consultant to the Texas Medical Association’s Alternative Payment Model Committee.

At the national level, she has served on the National Quality Forum’s Healthcare Professional Advisory Council, the Partnership for Quality Measurement, and the Whole Person Health workgroup of the Primary Care Collaborative. She is also the founding Chair of ACLM’s Clinical Practice and Quality Committee and a member of the Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee, appointed by the Governor of Texas.

A pioneer in the field of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Patel has designed and implemented innovative care delivery models that integrate lifestyle medicine as a therapeutic intervention within health systems. Her work includes developing an office-based intensive cardiac rehabilitation program, serving as Medical Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Center at Midland Health, and leading intensive therapeutic lifestyle change (ITLC) programs that have demonstrated chronic disease remission in both in-person and virtual settings.

She has also served as Lifestyle Medicine Medical Director at Wellvana, a national value-based care organization, and as Vice President of the World Lifestyle Medicine Organization.

Dr. Patel is a leading advocate for embedding lifestyle medicine across the continuum of care, including primary care, specialty care, employee health, and population health, with a focus on improving outcomes while reducing the total cost of care. Her work integrating lifestyle medicine into employee health programs has resulted in meaningful cost savings and improved health outcomes, reinforcing lifestyle medicine as a cornerstone of high-value care.

In recognition of her contributions, Dr. Patel has been named a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and received the 2023 AMWA Inspire Award, honoring her leadership, advocacy, and service to the health care community.

She is a Certified Lifestyle Medicine Intensivist, a designation awarded to clinicians who have demonstrated expertise in using lifestyle medicine to prevent, treat, and reverse chronic disease at individual and population levels. Dr. Patel is also a co-founder of Healthy City, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing community awareness of plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine.

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