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Meagan L. Grega, MD, FACLM, is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Kellyn Foundation (www.kellyn.org<\/a>), a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice.\u00a0 Kellyn provides school-based healthy lifestyle education and \u201cGarden as a Classroom\u201d programs; supports access to nutrient-dense produce and delicious plant-powered prepared meals via the Eat Real Food Mobile Market; engages participants in hands-on, plant-based cooking classes in community settings and offers intensive therapeutic lifestyle change interventions for individuals and families.\u00a0 She is a summa cum laude<\/em> graduate of Bucknell University with a B.S. in Biochemistry\/Cell Biology and earned her MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.<\/p>\n

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 (www.llantrisantretreat.com<\/a>), the home of Kellyn Foundation. \u00a0She has been a featured speaker at American College of Lifestyle Medicine Annual Conferences 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.\u00a0 She is honored to serve as faculty for the St. Luke\u2019s 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 faculty advisor for the LKSOM\/SLUHN medical student Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group (LMIG).\u00a0 She is a member of the True Health Initiative Council of Directors, the current conference chair for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Annual Meeting and serves as a member of several national task force groups dedicated to the expansion of evidence-based lifestyle medicine services.\u00a0 Dr. Grega is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, serves on the governing Board of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine, and is board certified in both Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":16175,"menu_order":4,"template":"","aclm-role":[78,131],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nMeagan Grega, MD, FACLM, DipABLM - American College of Lifestyle Medicine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/lifestylemedicine.org\/aclm-people\/meagan-grega-md-faclm-dipablm\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Meagan Grega, MD, FACLM, DipABLM - American College of Lifestyle Medicine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Meagan L. 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