Padmaja Patel, MD, FACLM DipABLM, has worked as a primary care physician for more than 20 years. She has held the position of Lifestyle Medicine (LM) Medical Director at Wellvana Health, a value-based organization operating nationally, and has also served as the Medical Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Center at Midland Health.

Dr. Patel is the President-Elect of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and Vice President of the World Lifestyle Medicine Organization. She serves as Vice President of Midland Quality Alliance, a clinically integrated network of physicians in Midland, TX. She is the Chair of ACLM's Clinical Practice and Quality Committee and a member of the Endorsement and Maintenance (E&M) committee for Partnership for Quality Measurement. She serves on National Quality Forum’s (NQF) Healthcare Professional Stakeholder Advisory Council and has been a member of the NQF's 2021-2023 Leadership Consortium.

Dr. Patel has delivered innovative Lifestyle Medicine (LM) care delivery models, including a physician office-based intensive cardiac rehabilitation program. She has served as the medical director for the Ornish Program for Reversing Heart Disease and Pritikin Cardiac Rehabilitation at Midland Health. She has developed successful lifestyle medicine based Intensive Therapeutic Lifestyle Change (ITLC) programs for chronic disease remission for employee health and patient care and has delivered these programs in person and through virtual settings. In her role with Wellvana, she designed LM care delivery models to integrate LM within ACOs and Medicare Advantage plans to replicate her success in the FFS models and achieve the quintuple aim of healthcare.