Bringing disease prevention into the heart of healthcare through clinical programs, research, and physician education.
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Lifestyle Health Collaborative is a nonprofit initiative advancing a healthcare model that makes disease prevention a shared priority.
Our mission is to advance sustainable, prevention-focused healthcare through physician and clinical faculty education, research, and innovative clinical programs. We support patient-centered, whole-person care that brings together lifestyle modification, food as medicine, functional medicine, and individualized clinical assessment through collaborative and adjunctive care.
Through philanthropy, institutional partnerships, research, and physician training, we aim to expand the knowledge and services that help people live healthier, longer lives.
Promoting lifestyle, functional, and culinary medicine clinical services within healthcare institutions.
Supporting research that connects prevention strategies with meaningful clinical outcomes.
Expanding opportunities for physicians and clinical faculty to pursue advanced education and certification.
Culinary medicine connects nutrition science with practical skills. We promote programs that help clinicians and patients turn evidence into everyday meals and lasting health habits.
Support prevention-focused careAdvanced education can change how clinicians practice—and how institutions approach prevention.
Our scholarship focus includes physicians and clinical faculty seeking education or certification in lifestyle, functional, culinary, or integrative medicine.
Physicians and clinical faculty whose training aligns with disease prevention and sustainable clinical programs.
Advanced education and certification in lifestyle, functional, culinary, and integrative medicine. Eligible programs will be defined as scholarship opportunities are established.
Application dates, award amounts, and selection criteria will be published when scholarship opportunities are available.
Founder · Lifestyle Health Collaborative
A physician and clinical leader dedicated to bringing disease prevention into everyday healthcare.
Dr. Swenor brings more than 23 years of clinical experience in family, lifestyle, and functional medicine. A board-certified family physician, she has pursued advanced fellowships and certifications in lifestyle, functional, metabolic, and regenerative medicine, alongside training in plant-based nutrition and culinary medicine.
As the founder and former Medical Director of Henry Ford Health’s Department of Lifestyle, Integrative, and Functional Medicine, she helped build collaborative services integrating nutrition, lifestyle medicine, culinary education, and adjunctive care.
Her national speaking, clinical teaching, and leadership inform the Collaborative’s commitment to physician education, research, and sustainable health system programs.
Meaningful change takes clinical leadership, educational opportunity, research, and philanthropic commitment.
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Partnership inquiries, giving information, and scholarship announcements will be available here as programs launch.