Project Description

Co-Founder, Chief Medical Officer, Kellyn Foundation

Dr. Meagan Grega, MD, FACLM, DipABLM, DipABFM is the Co-Founder and Chief Medical Officer of Kellyn Foundation (www.kellyn.org), a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice. Through the “Healthy Neighborhood Immersion Strategy”, Kellyn provides school-based healthy lifestyle education and “Garden as a Classroom” programs; supports access to nutrient-dense produce 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 families, employers and community groups. She is a summa cum laude graduate of Bucknell University with a B.S. in Biochemistry/Cell Biology and earned her MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School.

Dr. Grega spent several years as a medical officer in the United States Navy and is currently the Managing Director of Llantrisant Retreat and Wellness Center (www.llantrisantretreat.com). She is honored to serve as faculty for the St. Luke’s University Health Network Anderson Campus Family Medicine and Internal Medicine Residency programs, Clinical Assistant Professor for the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and as the faculty advisor for the LKSOM/SLUHN medical student Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group. Dr. Grega 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 a member of several national task force groups dedicated to the expansion of evidence-based lifestyle medicine services. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, a Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, serves on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and as Secretary of the Board of Directors for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Grega is board certified in both Family Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine.