Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency
Jaclyn Albin, M.D., CCMS, DipABLM, is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatric, and Public Health in the UT Southwestern School of Medicine and O'Donnell School of Public Health. She specializes in internal medicine, pediatrics, lifestyle medicine, and culinary medicine. Dr. Albin treats patients of all ages, and she also serves as the founding Associate Program Director for the combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program.
Dr. Albin earned her medical degree from George Washington University and completed a residency in combined internal medicine and pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, where she served as Chief Resident of Pediatrics. She is certified by the American Boards of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, as well as the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
In 2017, Dr. Albin launched UT Southwestern’s Culinary Medicine Program and serves as Director of the program’s education, research, clinical, and equity missions. She also serves as the inaugural Medical Director of Food is Medicine Innovation in the Center for Innovation and Value at Parkland Health. Through partnership with colleagues in the O’Donnell School of Public Health, she builds creative collaboratives between health systems and community organizations to advance sustainable strategies promoting food security and health equity.
Nationally, Dr. Albin serves on the American College of Culinary Medicine Advisory Board and is an organization member of the international Teaching Kitchen Collaborative. In 2025, she was appointed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbot to a four-year term on the the state's Nutrition Advisory Committee, which was established to develop nutritional guidelines for the residents of Texas. She is passionate about disruptive innovation within healthcare to promote multisector collaboration and drive positive change at a population health level. In her free time, she loves to travel, read, garden, and cook delicious, nourishing food that her adolescent children will actually eat!
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