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Mechelle A. Palma, MD, MMHA, DipIBLM, FACLM

President
Philippine College of Lifestyle Medicine
Iloilo City, Iloilo, Philippines

Dr. Mechelle Acero Palma is a Certified Family Physician and a Fellow of both the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and the Philippine College of Lifestyle Medicine. She now serves her second term as the president of the Philippine College of Lifestyle Medicine, the executive secretary of the Asian Lifestyle Medicine Council, a member of the World Lifestyle Medicine Development Taskforce, the president of Remnant Institute Inc., the founding President of the Lifestyle Medicine Solutions Co., and a founding board member of the International Federation of Lifestyle Medicine Practitioners. Dr. Palma is also one of the founding directors of the Philippine Society of Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine, which is a Subspecialty Society under the Philippine Academy of Family Phicians. She also spearheaded the founding of the Lifestyle Medicine Department of the Antique Medical Center and Bacolod Adventist Medical Center. She worked with colleagues to design the curriculum for Lifestyle Medicine Education at Adventist University of the Philippines' College of Public Health. In addition, she founded the Asian Institute of Culinary Medicine, which debuted in 2016 as CulinaryMD with programs currently used in the curriculum for medical, public health, and health coaching education programs. Dr. Palma has been active as a resource person and training program developer for various private and public organizations advocating healthy lifestyle since 2008. As one of the pioneering certified lifestyle medicine physicians in the country, she focused on the advancement of lifestyle medicine by developing the Competency Course and Specialty Board Examination, reorganizing the Lifestyle Medicine Society in the Philippines, and ultimately led Society’s accreditation as an Affiliate Specialty Society of the Philippine Medical Association under the division of the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians. Dr. Palma believes that integrating lifestyle medicine education in the medical and interprofessional curriculum is the key to advance the practice of lifestyle medicine and address the burden of chronic disease in the country. Her passion is to provide education platforms and develop training programs for health care providers. She is currently an adjunct professor at the Adventist University of the Philippines College of Medicine and College of Health, the Director of the Philippine Specialty Board of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Palma is the head faculty of the Philippine Lifestyle Medicine Competency Course, she also served the American College of Lifestyle Medicine as a member of the review team for the Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies, and Lifestyle Medicine Intensivist Competencies.

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