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Ted D. Barnett, MD, DipABLM, FACLM

President
Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute
Rush, New York, United States

Dr. Barnett, the “High-Tech Doctor with Low-Tech Solutions,” is the president and board chair of Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute (RLMI), which he founded in 2015. He is an interventional radiologist, mammographer, body imager, and senior partner with Borg and Ide Imaging in Rochester, N.Y., where he has practiced since 1986. Like any good parents, Ted and his wife, Carol, performed an experiment on their children in 1991; they became vegan (after reading the works of Drs. Michael Klaper, John McDougall and Dean Ornish). The experiment worked! All three children are now remarkably healthy and charming adult vegans (and their youngest even won a Grammy)! As a fellow and former board member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), Dr. Barnett is dedicated to transforming the practice of medicine using the principles of plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine. Dr. Barnett received his undergraduate degree in 1976 from Yale and his medical degree in 1980 from Tufts, where he also completed his diagnostic imaging residency and became board-certified in 1984. Eleven years later, in 1995, he became one of the first physicians board-certified in vascular and interventional radiology after passing the inaugural examination given by the American Board of Radiology. Twenty-two years later, in 2017, he became one of the first 204 physicians board-certified in lifestyle medicine after passing the inaugural examination of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Barnett has spoken at many national conferences and appears frequently on webinars, podcasts, and radio. RLMI’s 15-Day Whole-Food Plant-Based Jumpstart is one of only a few programs certified by ACLM. In conjunction with the University of Rochester Department of Nephrology, the RLMI team recently completed a randomized controlled trial of chronic kidney disease patients using Jumpstart. In March 2020, adapting to the realities of the pandemic, RLMI began delivering Jumpstart using Zoom and the Google Classroom. Recently, this was moved to an online learning management system at PaleBlue.Community, a platform created by RLMI. As of June 2024, more than 300 clinicians have referred patients to the monthly program, which has reached over 2,500 people in 44 states and nine countries.

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