Amy Locke, MD, Named Board Chair of Academic Consortium Integrative Medicine and Health

Announcement provided by the Academic Consortium for Integrative Medicine & Health

Amy Locke, MD, FAAFP, Chief Wellness Officer and Professor of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of Utah was installed as Chair of the Board of Directors for the Academic Consortium during the 2022 International Congress and Members Meeting in Phoenix.  

Board certified in both Family Medicine and Integrative Medicine, she also serves as executive director of the University of Utah Health Resiliency Center, Adjunct Professor of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, and as adjunct faculty in the University of Michigan Integrative Medicine Fellowship. Her research, educational, and clinical interests center around professional well-being, health behavior change, and prevention of disease through lifestyle. 

She helped create a Culinary Medicine Program for health sciences students and a Health Promotion and Integrative Health Pathway of Excellence for medical students. She is the former Director of Integrative Medicine and Integrative Medicine Fellowship Director at the University of Michigan.  She strives to increase education around wellness and integrative health topics both locally and nationally with a goal of increased access to services and a shift towards prevention and integrative health in conventional medicine.

“I am honored to lead the board at such a pivotal time in medicine and healthcare,” Locke said. “We are poised to move conventional healthcare forward in several critical areas including a move towards a whole health paradigm that regularly considers the social determinants of health, consistent inclusion of non-pharmacologic approaches to disease, and consideration of the well-being of healthcare workers.