AMA honors ACLM govt for meritorious achievement

CHICAGO — The American Medical Association (AMA) honored Susan Benigas, chief govt officer of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), with the Medical Executive Meritorious Achievement Award for her distinctive management and repair in advancing life-style drugs to enhance affected person outcomes. This award honors medical society executives who’ve made excellent contributions to the career of medication by enhancing medical apply, training, or public well being.

“Susan Benigas exemplifies visionary leadership, tirelessly advancing evidence-based approaches that have made a profound impact on the medical profession and the patients we serve,” mentioned AMA Board Chair David H. Aizuss, M.D. “Her commitment to innovation, collaboration, and education has helped bring lifestyle medicine into mainstream health care, empowering physicians to address the causes of chronic disease. Her work exemplifies outstanding medical executive leadership.”

Since becoming a member of ACLM in 2014, Benigas has led the group by means of a interval of extraordinary development—from simply 380 members and one part-time employees member to a thriving 15,000-member skilled society with a 45-member workforce working throughout the United States. Under her course, ACLM has turn into a driving pressure in medical training reform, embedding life-style drugs—together with meals as drugs—into undergraduate, graduate, and persevering with medical training.

In 2016, Benigas co-founded the Lifestyle Medicine Global Alliance (LMGA) below ACLM’s umbrella, increasing the attain of life-style drugs worldwide. What started as a collaboration amongst 5 nationwide societies has grown right into a coalition of 32 life-style drugs medical societies the world over.