Yale Cardiovascular Medicine Grand Rounds: "Plant-Based Nutrition for Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction"

Michelle McMacken, MD, DipABLM is an Associate Professor of Medicine at NYU Grossman School of Medicine. An honors graduate of Yale University and Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Dr. McMacken practices internal medicine in the Adult Primary Care Center at NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue, part of the largest safety-net health care system in the United States. She also directs Bellevue's Adult Weight Management Program and Plant-Based Lifestyle Medicine Program. Through a 2014 NYU Merrin Fellowship grant, Dr. McMacken studied evidence-based nutrition and developed a nutrition curriculum for her internal medicine faculty colleagues. She has received the faculty ‘Teacher of the Year’ award three times for her work with physician trainees and has presented on nutrition at the American College of Physicians, the American Diabetes Association, and other national academic conferences. Dr. McMacken serves on the board of directors for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and is committed to teaching and practicing evidence-based lifestyle as medicine.