Merging medicine with the arts | Dr. Marsha-Gail Davis

Healthy For My Purpose

Sersie and Gigi sit down with a rockstar in the lifestyle medicine space. Dr. Marsha-Gail Davis is a mover-and-shaker empowering patients with lifestyle medicine. Get healthy plant-based recipes at danielsplate.com. Connect and follow Dr. Davis on IG @mgdthedoc. Check out the full version of her Wack rap video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/cPsSGLY2VZw?si=xw4W5ZHlNmmYQSx2 Health care, not sick care article: https://lifestylemedicine.org/articles/health-care-not-sick-care/ About Dr. Marsha Gail Davis: Dr. Davis is a primary care internist and preventionist with an interest in working at the intersection of primary care, lifestyle medicine, public health, and health equity. She completed her medical training at Yale and UCSD in internal medicine and preventive medicine. She is quadruple-board certified in Internal Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and Obesity Medicine and has a Masters in Public Health. She currently practices as a primary physician at Piedmont Healthcare, served as the Young Director on the Board of Directors of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), and is the former Co-chair of ACLM’s HEAL (Health Equity Achieved Through Lifestyle Medicine) Initiative. She also serves as Medical Lead for the student-led health initiative Big Picture Living, created in collaboration with Big Picture Learning, FableVision and ACLM. She is committed to helping her patients and her community live healthy and dignified lives through the prevention and effective treatment of preventable chronic diseases using the full spectrum of clinical medicine (where lifestyle medicine is foundational) to reduce morbidity and mortality caused by preventable diseases and the disparities that exacerbate them. She is an artist and seeks to use her creativity to develop innovative public health solutions to make prevention the priority and to make it popular.