Dr Ellen Fallows

Dr Fallows is an obesity and lifestyle medicine expert working as an NHS GP where she has led group consultations to support remission of chronic diseases.

She is passionate about driving healthcare change and bringing medicine back to the root causes of ill health in the consulting room; to focus on real people’s lives and what matters to them. She is medical director of Liva's "NHS Paths to Remission Programme" which supports people to achieve medication free remission of Type-2 diabetes through weight loss and lifestyle changes. She is a Fellow of the British Society of Lifestyle Medicine (www.bslm.org.uk) where she was Vice-President and Trustee and set up their Learning Academy, writing the first foundation course. She teaches Lifestyle Medicine at Oxford University. She is an RCGP Personalised Care Institute Ambassador and Adviser/representative to the RCGP on Obesity and Type-2 diabetes. As a thought-leader she has opinion pieces published in both the Lancet and BMJ on obesity.