- Chaired committees that developed the original and updated lifestyle medicine competencies for health professionals (Lianov L, et al, 2010, 2022)
- Served as lead faculty for the first lifestyle medicine competencies training program on behalf of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM)
- Originated a framework that combines health behavior change stages with personality-based preferences for greater lifestyle change success and increased sustainability (included as the foundation of the My Happy Avatar app series – myhappyavatar.com)
- Originated a framework to support health coaches based on their strengths and personality (in My Happy Avatar Coach app – myhappyavatar.com)
- Developed a positive health expansion of lifestyle medicine competencies (in Roots of Positive Change and Lifestyle Medicine From the Inside Out books)
- Created clinical processes for integrating positive health and positive psychology into lifestyle medicine and health care more broadly (introduced in the Roots of Positive Change book)
- Served as the lead organizer for the inaugural Summit on Happiness Science in Health Care on behalf of ACLM
- Created a model for planning positive health interventions based on person-activity fit that aligns with an individual’s brain strengths and personality-based preferences