Taking Lifestyle Medicine Into The Community | Chef AJ LIVE! with Dr. Meagan Grega - Video

Meagan L. Grega, MD, FACLM, is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Kellyn Foundation (https://www.kellyn.org/), a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice. Kellyn provides school-based healthy lifestyle education and “Garden as a Classroom” programs; supports access to nutrient-dense produce and prepared Lifestyle Medicine Meals via the Eat Real Food Mobile Market (healthy food.kellyn.org); engages participants in hands-on, plant-based cooking classes in community settings and offers intensive therapeutic lifestyle change interventions for individuals and families.

She is a summa cum laude graduate of Bucknell University with a B.S. in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and earned her MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.

Dr. Grega spent several years as a medical officer in the United States Navy, attaining the rank of Lieutenant Commander before resigning from active-duty service. She has been a staff Family Physician at Hunterdon Medical Center, the Director of Women's Health Services at Lafayette College and is currently the Managing Director of Llantrisant Retreat and Wellness Center (https://www.llantrisantretreat.com/), the home of Kellyn Foundation. She is a member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Speakers Bureau and frequently lectures on the topics of Lifestyle Medicine at colleges, universities, hospital Grand Rounds, medical residency programs and community forums. Mentoring residents, medical, dietician and nursing students is one of her passions. She is honored to serve as adjunct faculty for the St. Luke’s University Health Network Anderson Campus Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Residency programs, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine for the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and as a faculty advisor for the LKSOM/SLUHN medical student Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group (LMIG). She is a member of the True Health Initiative Council of Directors and serves as a member of several national task force groups dedicated to the expansion of evidence-based lifestyle medicine services. Dr. Grega is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and is board certified in both Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.
Child/Family health in general, and the obesity epidemic in particular, are issues in which Dr. Grega has had a long-standing interest. She believes the benefits of regular exercise, adequate sleep, supportive social connections, healthy food choices and the art of balance are the keys to improving our children’s future, as well as our own. Towards that end, she is committed to finding practical solutions that can be implemented by families and communities to strengthen each other physically, emotionally and spiritually.

Join Dr. Grega and Kellyn Foundation as we host a fabulous celebration of amazingly delicious food, phenomenal music and lots of family-friendly fun! Lehigh Valley VegStock 2021 (https://www.lvvegstock.org) will focus on healthy living, vegetarian, plant-based & vegan foods, local musicians, community involvement, and family engagement on Oct. 9th, 2021 alongside the beautiful Bushkill Creek in Tatamy, PA. All proceeds of the event will benefit Kellyn Schools Healthy Lifestyle presentations and "Garden as a Classroom" programs in 38 local elementary schools, as well as Kellyn Food Access programs like the Eat Real Food Mobile Market that are dedicated to making the healthy choice, the easy choice throughout our community. Hope to see you there!