About the Team
Jaclyn Albin, M.D., CCMS
Dr. Albin launched UT Southwestern’s Culinary Medicine Program and serves as its Director, working to teach nutrition through hands-on cooking classes to students, health care professionals, and the community. She is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and practices primary care across the lifespan. She also serves as the founding Associate Program Director for the combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program.
Dr. Albin is trained in lifestyle medicine and is a certified culinary medicine specialist (CCMS). She serves on the national advisory board for the CCMS program and on the research and curriculum committees of the organization Health meets Food. Dr. Albin studies the impact of culinary medicine classes in medical education and patient care.
She is passionate about nutrition, lifestyle, and environmental influences on health, and she seeks to drive positive change at a population health level. Food as medicine delivers a unique opportunity to integrate the clinical, educational, and research aspects of this work through the training of future health care professionals, delivery of innovative patient support in lifestyle behavior change, and high-quality research.
Milette Siler, RD, LD, CCMS
Ms. Siler has been involved with culinary medicine since 2014, when a collaboration between Moncrief Cancer Institute and Texas Christian University first brought the program to North Texas.
Her career is focused on advancing culinary medicine in both a professional student and community setting. In the professional student arena, Ms. Siler serves as Lead Dietetic Instructor for UT Southwestern Medical School, bringing enhanced nutrition education to medical students, residents, and other health professionals.
In the community setting, she teaches hands-on cooking classes for cancer survivor patients at Moncrief. Additionally, she networks with local food pantries and other organizations to bring culinary medicine to underserved populations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.