Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics & Public Health, Director of Culinary Medicine
University of Texas Southwestern
Dallas, Texas, United States
Jaclyn Lewis Albin, MD, CCMS, DipABLM is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Public Health and founding Director of the Culinary Medicine program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.
Dr. Albin is board certified in lifestyle medicine and is a certified culinary medicine specialist (CCMS). She developed the first Culinary Medicine (CM) Clinical Service Line in the United States, integrating a variety of interprofessional CM consults into patient care in partnership with a culinary registered dietitian. She also serves as the founding Associate Program Director for the combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program and remains dedicated to educational innovation in a variety of domains.
Dr. Albin serves as the inaugural Medical Director of Food is Medicine Innovation in the Center for Innovation at Value at Parkland Health. Through partnership with colleagues in the O’Donnell School of Public Health, she builds creative collaboratives between health systems and community organizations to advance sustainable strategies promoting food security and health equity.
Dr. Albin serves on the national advisory boards for the American College of Culinary Medicine and the international Teaching Kitchen Collaborative and studies the impact of culinary medicine in medical education, community settings, and patient care. Dr. Albin is a sought-after speaker, media source, and scientific voice in Culinary Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and food is medicine spaces. She is passionate about disruptive innovation within healthcare to promote multisector collaboration and drive positive change at a population health level. In her free time, she loves to travel, read, garden, and cook delicious, nourishing food that her adolescent children will actually eat!
Planted to Plated: A Lifestyle Medicine Culinary Experience
Tuesday, November 18, 2025
7:15 PM - 9:15 PM CT