Mayo Faculty

Dawn Mussallem, DO - Dr. Mussallem is a consultant in the Division of Hematology Oncology at Mayo Clinic and Assistant Professor of Medicine. She is a board-certified lifestyle medicine breast specialist at The Jacoby Center for Breast Health. Dr. Mussallem serves as chair for Mayo Clinic Florida Employee Wellbeing, Medical Director for Humanities in Medicine, and is councilor at large for Officers & Councilors of Mayo Clinic staff. She has over 25 years of patient-centered clinical wellness experience and is internationally recognized in breast medicine, lifestyle medicine, integrative oncology, and cancer survivorship. Dr. Mussallem has a unique personal connection to her work as a stage IV cancer patient diagnosed 3 months into medical school and in 2021, she became a heart transplant recipient. She shares that her journey as a patient cultivated her boundless energy and deep purpose to help patients flourish during and after adversity.

Amy Rabatin, MD - Dr. Rabatin is board certified in PMR, Pediatric Rehabilitation Medicine, Sports Medicine, and Lifestyle Medicine. She is lead faculty for the LMRC for the PMR residents, co-lead faculty for the enterprise wide LMRC, PD for the PRM Fellowship, co-lead faculty for the PMR Clinical Educator Course, co-medical director for the Pediatric PRC, and a Mayo Clinic Trained Wellness Coach. Practice interests include adaptive sports, pediatric physical activity, lifestyle medicine and medical education.

Jen Drost, MS, PA-C - Jen graduated from Yale University and is a Physician Assistant at Mayo Clinic Arizona. She has been at the Mayo Clinic for over 20 years and was first author of a study looking at the effect of a whole food plant-based diet on diabetes for patients undergoing surgery.  Besides her medical certification, Jen is a Mayo Certified Health coach. For over a decade, she facilitated CHIP (the Complete Health Improvement Program) which helps people achieve lifestyle changes.  She is a certified Lifestyle Medicine professional through the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and she enjoys discussing and teaching Lifestyle Medicine. One of Jen’s highlights on her healthy lifestyle journey was helping edit Dr. Michael Greger's New York Times bestselling book, How Not to Die.

Joseph Gonzales, RDN, LD - Joseph has spent many years working in clinical research, helping publish multiple studies looking at how plant-based diets may help reduce chronic disease. Joseph has also taken part of a large clinical trial designed by the Integrative Medicine Program at MD Anderson - University of Texas, observing how a plant-centered diet may help improve breast cancer survivorship. Joseph has experience in clinical nutrition, specifically, working with oncology patients during and after their cancer treatments. 

Guest Faculty

Eddie Phillips, MD - Edward M. Phillips, MD, Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and Director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Spaulding Rehab has run 27 live CME programs attended by >25,000 clinicians from 115 countries. He is guiding a broad-based effort to reduce lifestyle-related death, disease, and costs through clinician directed interventions. He has ~100 scientific publications and >4.5 million downloads of his podcast “Food, We Need to Talk”.