Jaclyn Albin
Physician Innovator, Scientist, & Educator * Culinary Medicine Expert * Food as Medicine Enthusiast * Lover of Eating with Friends
- Role
- Medical Director, Food is Medicine Innovation at Parkland Health
- Location
- Dallas, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Jaclyn Albin
Dr. Jaclyn Albin launched UT Southwestern’s Culinary Medicine Program and serves as its Director, working to teach nutrition and innovation in care through hands-on cooking classes to students, health care professionals, and community. She developed the first Culinary Medicine (CM) Clinical Service Line, integrating a variety of interprofessional CM consults into patient care through insurance reimbursement and meaningful community partnership. She is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Public Health and spent the first 10 years of her post-training career practicing primary care across the lifespan. Dr. Albin invests in medical education and is the founding Associate Program Director for the combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program and leads nutrition and culinary medicine education efforts at UTSW. Dr. Albin also serves as the Medical Director of Food is Medicine Innovation in the Center for Innovation at Value at Parkland Health. Through partnership with innovation and data science experts, she collaborates with community organizations to build sustainable strategies promoting food security and health transformation.Dr. Albin is board certified in pediatrics, internal medicine, and lifestyle medicine (DipABLM) and is a certified culinary medicine specialist (CCMS). She serves as an advisory board member for the American College of Culinary Medicine and the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, and she studies the impact of culinary medicine and food as medicine in medical education and health system strategy. As of December 2025, Dr. Albin was appointed to the new statewide Texas Nutrition Advisory Committee (TNAC, established by SB25) and elected Chair. The TNAC will set recommendations for nutrition education beginning in primary schools through medical education.She is passionate about food, lifestyle, and environmental influences on health, and she seeks to drive positive change at a population health level by starting with pragmatic, grassroots programs that actually work and can sustainably scale.The granddaughter of farmers, she loves the magic of growing vegetables and herbs in her backyard. She experiments with globally inspired recipes in her own kitchen, always striving to get her adolescent children to believe that nourishing food tastes delicious!
Experience
Medical Director, Food is Medicine Innovation
Jul 2023 — Present · Dallas, TX, US
Education
Baylor University
B.A., Religion
2001 — 2005
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
M.D., Medicine
2005 — 2009
Skills
- Chronic Illness
- Graduate Medical Education
- Medicine
- Clinical Nutrition
- Healthcare Management
- Internal Medicine
- Nutritional Counseling
- Nutrition Education
- Leadership
- Transition Planning
- Clinical Research
- Public Speaking
- Pediatrics
- Adolescents
- Medical Education
- Healthcare
- Public Health
- Board Certified
- Hospitals
- Foster Care
- Culinary Medicine
- Research
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