Brenda Rea

Brenda serves as the Medical Director of Education for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and has over 25 years of knowledge and experience mentoring health professional students, medical students, residents and fellows with a focus on nutrition, lifestyle medicine and whole person care. Brenda completed her education at Loma Linda University (LLU), including physical therapy, nutrition and dietetics, public health and medicine with family, preventive and lifestyle medicine specialties. She remains an affiliated faculty member at LLU and is deeply committed to educating the next generation of physicians and health professionals. Her work emphasizes the use of evidence‑based nutrition and lifestyle interventions to treat, and in many cases reverse, chronic disease. Brenda also strives to personally model the principles of lifestyle medicine in both her professional and personal life.