About
Certified September 14, 2020.
Dr. Jaclyn Albin launched UT Southwestern’s Culinary Medicine Program and serves as its Director, working to teach nutrition and innovation in care through hands-on cooking classes to students, health care professionals, and community. She 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, 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.
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 transformation.
Dr. Albin is board certified in pediatrics, internal medicine, and lifestyle medicine (DipABLM) and is a certified culinary medicine specialist (CCMS). She serves as an advisory board member for the American College of Culinary Medicine, and she studies the impact of culinary medicine and food as medicine in medical education and health system strategy.
She is passionate about food, lifestyle, and environmental influences on health, and she seeks to drive positive change at a population health level by starting with pragmatic, grassroots programs that actually work and can sustainably scale.
