JACLYN ALBIN, MD, CCMS, DipABLM launched the University of Texas Southwestern’s Culinary Medicine Program and serves as its director. She developed the first Culinary Medicine (CM) Clinical Service Line, integrating a variety of interprofessional CM consults and shared medical appointments into patient care through insurance reimbursement and meaningful community partnerships. She is an associate professor of Mnternal medicine, Pediatrics, and Public Health and spent the first 10 years of her post-training career practicing primary care across the lifespan. Dr. Albin invests in medical education and is the founding associate program director for the combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program and leads nutrition and culinary medicine education efforts at UTSW. Additionally, Dr. Albin is the medical director of Food is Medicine Innovation in the Center for Innovation at Value at Parkland Health. She also serves as an advisory board member for the American College of Culinary Medicine and the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, and she studies the impact of culinary medicine and food as medicine in medical education and health system strategy. The granddaughter of farmers, she loves the magic of growing vegetables and herbs in her backyard. She experiments with globally inspired recipes in her own kitchen, always striving to get her adolescent children to believe that nourishing food tastes delicious! (Dallas, TX)