About
The Lifestyle Medicine Global Alliance (LMGA) represents the convergence of national Lifestyle Medicine professional associations from around the world, uniting under one banner for the purpose of collaboration, shared knowledge and best practices, and to more compellingly convey the power of the lifestyle medicine story—a story of health, hope and healing for one and all. Lifestyle Medicine leaders of all nations are working together to decrease the global pandemic of non-communicable disease.
Vision
A world without non-communicable disease.
Mission
LMGA seeks to unite national Lifestyle Medicine medical professional associations from around the world, with the goal of reining in the alarming rise in global obesity and lifestyle-related chronic disease trends. Identifying and eradicating the cause of disease is our mission.
Background
LMGA was initiated by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) in 2015 in response to the increasing need for Lifestyle Medicine solutions in low and middle-income countries and for communication and coordination between Lifestyle Medicine medical professional organizations around the world.
LMGA is taking the lead in uniting the national Lifestyle Medicine sister organizations that are now present on virtually every continent, creating cohesiveness, enabling global sharing of best practices and educational resources, leveraging public relations efforts, and developing opportunities for synergistic collaboration. In the knowledge and belief that Lifestyle Medicine offers affordable, sustainable solutions to the global pandemic of non-communicable disease, LMGA is committed to championing the cause around the world.
Lifestyle Medicine Global Alliance/International Board of Lifestyle Medicine Advisory Board
Sivaneswaran Poobalasingam, MD(Mal), DipIBLM
Chair, Advisory Board
Dr. Poobalasingam was appointed as the Lifestyle Medicine Expert Consultant with the World Health Organization for the Lifestyle Medicine For Diabetes Remission Project (WHO-MOH). This pilot project was implemented at a public primary health care facility in
Negeri Sembilan in collaboration with the Ministry of Health Malaysia. Dr. Sivaneswaran is the
Founder and President of the Malaysian Society of Lifestyle Medicine. He is on the Advisory
Board of the International Journal for Disease Reversal and Prevention and is a member of the
C20 Working Group for Integrated Holistic Health(NCDS). Dr. Sivaneswaran also sits on the US
based True Health Initiative Council, the Global Positive Health Institute’s Advisory Council and
the National Coalition for Mental Wellness in Malaysia. He is an Exam Question Writer for the
Lifestyle Medicine Board Certification examination.
Ravinder Mamtani, MD, FACPM, FACOEM, FACLM
Vice-Chair, Advisory Board
Ravinder Mamtani, MD is a specialist in preventive medicine, occupational medicine, public health and lifestyle medicine. He is a Professor of Population Health Sciences and Professor of Medicine (Centre for Global Health), at Weill Cornell Medicine, New York (WCM). At WCM’s international campus in Qatar (WCM-Q), he serves as Vice-Dean for Population Health and Lifestyle Medicine, and provides leadership to the Institute for Population Health overseeing all its education, research and community engagement programs and activities. Prior to joining WCM-Q in 2007, Dr. Mamtani was a Professor of Clinical Community and Preventive Medicine, and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at New York Medical College; and an occupational medicine physician and section chief of complementary medicine at Westchester Medical Centre in Valhalla, New York. He has several years of clinical experience in utilizing lifestyle and integrative medicine in the treatment of chronic diseases such as chronic pain, arthritis, obesity, metabolic conditions, mental health conditions and gastrointestinal problems.
A keen researcher, Dr. Mamtani has published extensively on various public health, lifestyle medicine, complementary medicine, and infectious disease topics. He has also written newspaper columns on contemporary health issues such as lifestyle medicine, mind-body medicine and emerging face of health care and population health and their challenges. Dr. Mamtani serves or has served on many government, professional, hospital, and medical school committees in USA and Qatar. He is a member of the prestigious New York State Board for Professional Medical Conduct; Vice Chair, Lifestyle Medicine Global Alliance and International Board of Lifestyle Medicine Advisory Board, and past chair of the Global Educational Exchange in Medicine (GEMx) Advisory Committee of Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG), US.
Members of the Advisory Board
Amy Mechley – USA, for North America
Shireen Kassam – UK, for Europe
Luke Wilson – New Zealand, for Oceania
David Glass – South Africa, for Africa
Silvia Lagrotta – Brazil, for South America
Agnese Lapsa-Lešinske, RD, BSc (Econ)
Executive Director, LMGA