ASLM Founding Director, RN, and Discipline Lead for Lifestyle Medicine at Southern Cross University
Specialty: Family Medicine
John Stevens RN, PhD, FACN, FASLM, currently leads the discipline of Lifestyle Medicine at Southern Cross University. He is a Medical Sociologist, a 40-year Registered Nurse and works as a consultant to industry on the implementation of models of care that improve the prevention, management and reversal of lifestyle-related chronic illness by supporting healthcare workers to integrate lifestyle medicine into practice. John is a founder and director of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM), which he and his colleagues officially established in 2008. John has been pioneering Shared Medical Appointments (aka Group Consultations and Medical Yarn Ups) in Australia and New Zealand and has been acknowledged by his peers with a Lifestyle Medicine, Outstanding Achievement Award for his contribution to the well-being of the community through this work. John has over 100 published articles in matters relating to Lifestyle Medicine and is regularly invited to speak at conferences and public events. He lives and thrives in the rural town of Mullumbimby, NSW, Australia, with his wife and five children.