JACLYN ALBIN, MD, CCMS, DipABLM  launched UT Southwestern’s (UTSW) Culinary Medicine Program and serves as its director, working to teach nutrition through hands-on cooking classes to students, health care professionals, and the community. Dr. Albin developed the first Culinary Medicine (CM) clinical service line, integrating a variety of interprofessional CM consults into patient care. She is an associate professor of internal medicine and pediatrics at UTSW and practices primary care across the lifespan. Dr. Albin also serves as the medical director of food is medicine innovation in the Center for Innovation at Value at Parkland Health. Through partnership with innovation and data science experts, she seeks to collaborate with community organizations to build sustainable strategies promoting food security and health equity. Dr. Albin is board certified in lifestyle medicine (DipABLM) and is a certified culinary medicine specialist (CCMS). She serves on the national Culinary Medicine Specialist Board, is an innovator member of the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative and studies the impact of culinary medicine classes in medical education and patient care. Food is medicine delivers a unique opportunity to integrate the clinical, educational, community, and research aspects of Dr. Albin’s work through the training of future health care professionals, delivery of innovative patient support in lifestyle behavior change, promotion of health equity, and high-quality research. (Dallas, TX)