Dr Malcolm Mackay – General medical practice and lifestyle medicine

Dr Malcolm Mackay is a General Practitioner with more than 35 years of experience in medical practice. He has a broad range of skills across the full spectrum of general practice and lifestyle medicine. Dr Mackay has a special interest in preventing, treating and reversing chronic disease with whole foods plant-based nutrition and other evidence-based lifestyle interventions. He provides Lifestyle Medicine and Telehealth consultations for patients across Australia. He works with patients who wish to take a nutrition and lifestyle approach to optimise their health

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Malcolm and his nutritionist partner Jenny maintain a website of information and resources for plant-based nutrition and provide seminars and webinars. Malcolm and his team run a lifestyle medicine program, available as a 7-day Immersion retreat.

Future events:

  • Plant-based nutrition webinar series: 4 sessions over 2 1/2 weeks, next series starts 7th April 2024. Registrations are now open for this webinar series.
  • 7-day Lifestyle Medicine immersion retreat – 10th to 17th March 2024 (also 8th-15th September).

Services

Medical: 
  • Consultations (in person)
  • Telehealth consultations (within Australia)

Educational:

  • Nutrition one-day seminars
  • Nutrition & lifestyle immersion retreats
  • Workplace nutrition programs
  • Webinars
  • Available for speaking events

Qualifications & Training

Medical degree

  • BMBS – Flinders University (1984)

Additional training

  • Graduate Diploma in Human Nutrition – Deakin University (1993)
  • Board Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician (IBLM)
  • Plant Based Nutrition Certificate – eCornell
  • Certificate of Sports Medicine (ASMF/RACGP)

Professional affiliations

  • Fellow of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine
  • Doctors for Nutrition – GP Resources Advisor
  • GP Affiliate, Monash University

Melbourne Lifestyle MedicineVisit our new Lifestyle Medicine website

Recent conferences

  • International Plant-Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference USA September 2023
  • Doctors For Nutrition Conference, Melbourne, February 2023
  • Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine Conference, Cairns, July 2022

Presenter

  • Doctors For Nutrition Conference, Melbourne, February 2023
  • Doctors For Nutrition Conference, Melbourne, February 2019 (workshop presenter)
  • Veg and Vines Lifestyle Medicine Conference, Gisbourne NZ, January 2019 (conference presenter)
Speaker and host:
  • 7-day Immersion retreats in the Yarra Valley, Victoria:
    Next one: March 2024

Podcasts & interviews

For more information about whole foods plant based nutrition, visit my other website and associated Facebook page:

1 week ago

Plant Based Health Australia
As the evidence for whole food plant-based nutrition grows, so does the pushback. We’ll discuss our observations on this, including looking at some of the new scientific evidence that continues to show health benefits from plant-based diets (including the twin study). Apologies for not being live at the advertised time on Sunday 3rd March. We have tested new software and are confident that our next live stream will work! ... See MoreSee Less
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