2025 Recipient:
Qadira Ali, MD, MPH, DipABLM, FAAP, FACLMRead Bio ▾
Dr. Qadira Ali, MD, MPH, FAAP, DipABLM, FACLM, is a board-certified pediatrician, certified lifestyle medicine physician, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences. She serves as an Attending Physician at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, DC, where she provides community-focused primary care and currently leads efforts to enhance provider well-being as the Well-Being Initiative Director for the Goldberg Center primary care division. Dr. Ali will be serving as one of the incoming Children’s National Medical Staff Wellbeing co-chairs.
Dr. Ali is the co-Principal Investigator and medical director for the Family Lifestyle Program Produce Prescription Initiative (FLiPRx) at Children’s National Hospital, working to address food insecurity and nutrition-related health inequities among families and structurally marginalized communities. Her professional expertise centers on promoting holistic well-being through a health equity-driven lens, integrating lifestyle medicine to empower families and healthcare providers alike.
A passionate advocate for healthcare provider wellness, Dr. Ali develops and supports programs that foster resilience, psychological safety, and systemic support for healthcare teams. She also serves as Co-Chair of the Health Equity Achieved through Lifestyle Medicine (HEAL) Initiative within the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, advancing initiatives that prioritize health equity and provider sustainability.
Through her thoughtful leadership, scholarly contributions, and dedication to mentoring future healthcare professionals, Dr. Ali strives to create a culture of care that supports the well-being of providers, patients, and communities.
2024 Recipient:
Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH, DipABLM, FACLMRead Bio ▾
Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH, DipABLM, FACLM, dedicated his time and expertise to transforming health, lives, systems, and communities, helping to build a more just and equitable society for all. During his ACLM presidency, he supported ACLM’s LM in the Community Member Interest Group, which soon thereafter evolved into ACLM’s Health Equity Achieved through Lifestyle Medicine (HEAL) Initiative. His visionary leadership and relentless commitment to advancing health equity through lifestyle medicine inspired over 500 ACLM members to join the HEAL Initiative.
As a population health innovator and lifestyle medicine leader, Dr. Shurney made significant strides in addressing health disparities by promoting lifestyle medicine intervention for disease prevention, treatment, and reversal, relentlessly striving for equitable care.
His extensive leadership experience, included roles at Blue Cross/Blue Shield, Vanderbilt University, Healthways, Cummins Corporation, Adventist Health, and Blue Zones, LLC, as well as non-profit leadership with ACLM, HERO, Population Health Alliance and National Alliance of Healthcare Purchaser Coalitions, just to name a few, underscored his dedication to improving health outcomes for all.
Dr. Shurney passed away in 2025. His emphasis on health equity in lifestyle medicine left a lasting legacy.