Associate Professor, Medicine
UConn Health School of Medicine
Farmington, Connecticut, United States
Dr Mahima Gulati is a triple board-certified physician: certified in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and
Metabolism; as well as Internal Medicine and Board-certified Diplomate of the American Board of
Lifestyle Medicine.
She is a visiting Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes
and Metabolism at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut, as
well as adjunct Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Frank H. Netter School of Medicine,
Quinnipiac University, North Haven, Connecticut.
She founded the service line of Lifestyle Medicine at Middlesex Health, Middletown, Connecticut and
served as the medical director of Lifestyle Medicine there until summer 2023. Since moving to University
of Connecticut School of Medicine in 2024, she is now directing novel Lifestyle Medicine endocrinology
service line including Lifestyle Medicine Shared medical appointments, as well as serving as the chief
clinical Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group faculty advisor for medical students and director of the
Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum for endocrinology fellows at UConn Health.
She was elected to the Board of Directors at American College of Lifestyle Medicine in November 2022
and currently serves as director-at-large. She was the following chair of the endocrinology member
interest group at American College of lifestyle medicine, and now co-chairs the group. She was
appointed by the ACLM President to serve on ACLM's Executive Committee from 2022-2023. She
also serves on ACLM's research committee, GLP-1 National task force, as well as the nutrition
messaging task force.
She was awarded the prestigious Fellowship of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine in
October 2021 and has been a Fellow of the American College of Endocrinology since 2017.
Dr. Gulati is one of the leading voices and pioneers in the field of evidence-based lifestyle medicine in
endocrinology, type 2 diabetes remission and obesity. She has been an invited speaker at over 50 regional,
national, international conferences, as well as published several journal articles and textbook chapters on
both endocrine and lifestyle medicine topics. She is the corresponding author of the American College of
Lifestyle Medicine’s multidisciplinary comprehensive clinical practice guidelines on “Lifestyle
Interventions for Treatment and Remission of Type 2 Diabetes and Prediabetes in Adults” released in
June 2025, and coauthored the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s expert consensus statement on
“Dietary interventions for type 2 diabetes remission” published in 2022. She also serves on the American
Association of Clinical Endocrinology (AACE)'s clinical practice guidelines oversight committee.
Saturday, November 15, 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM CT