Jaclyn Albin, MD, CCMS, DipABLM is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and founding Director of the Culinary Medicine program at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. She serves as the founding associate program director of the combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program. Dr. Albin is board certified in pediatrics, internal medicine, and lifestyle medicine and is a certified culinary medicine specialist (CCMS). Dr. Albin studies the impact of Culinary Medicine classes on a variety of disease states and seeks to drive positive change at a population health level through interprofessional teams and community co-leadership. She believes food is medicine delivers a unique opportunity to integrate the clinical, educational, research, and public health work through the training of future healthcare professionals, high quality research, and delivery of innovative patient care.