Health Meets Food: The Culinary Medicine Conference 2018
Jennifer Trilk,, PhD, FACSM, is an assistant professor at University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and director of the Lifestyle Medicine curriculum (e.g. training in nutrition, physical activity/exercise, behavior change, student/patient self-care, and resiliency) for the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and various forms of cancer.
She is co-founder and co-director of the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LLMEd), which provides leadership,, guidance and resources to medical schools and across the globe. She also is program director of Exercise is Medicine Greenville®, the first physician-referred, community-based, clinical exercise and lifestyle behavior intervention program in the U.S. to partner a medical school, health care system, and fitness organization together to improve population health. In 2014, Jennifer was awarded the U..S. President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition Community Leadership Award and in 2013 she was an invited speaker for Bipartisan Policy Center’s forum, "Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity in Medical School: Training Doctors for Prevention-Oriented Care."
Dr. Trilk completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health and earned her PhD in exercise physiology from the University of Georgia. Jennifer is an American College of Sports Medici ne and Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow.