Dr Malcolm Mackay – General medical practice and lifestyle medicine
Dr Malcolm Mackay is a General Practitioner with 30 years of experience in medical practice.
He has a broad range of skills across the full spectrum of general practice. His practice is based at Clinicare, Fitzroy, Melbourne. He also provides Skype consultations for patients from other regions of Australia.
Dr Mackay has a special interest in preventing and managing chronic disease with whole foods plant-based nutrition. He is co-author of a website providing information and resources for those interested in this approach and is active in social media. Malcolm and his nutritionist
partner Jenny host seminars and webinars and often speak at public and private events.
Expertise
Dr Mackay is experienced in all areas of
general practice including expertise in:
- Nutrition
- Lifestyle medicine
- Diabetes management
- Weight management
- Travel medicine
- Sports injuries
- Skin conditions
- Implanon
Qualifications & Training
Education
- BMBS – Flinders University (1984)
- Graduate Diploma in Human Nutrition – Deakin University (1993)
Additional training
- Board Certified Lifestyle Medicine Physician (IBLM)
- Plant Based Nutrition Certificate – eCornell
- Certificate of Sports Medicine
- Hyperbaric Medicine Certificate
- Certificate of Family Planning
Affiliations / Memberships
- Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine
- American College of Lifestyle Medicine
- Australian Medical Association
- GP Affiliate, Monash University
- Doctors For Nutrition
Recent conferences attended
- International Plant-Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference USA, September 2018
- Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine Conference Melbourne, August 2018
Recent presentations and interviews
- Dr Malcolm Mackay Gives Us The Plant Based Low Down – interview with Corinne Nijjer, February 2018
- Is a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet The Answer to Chronic Disease? 2017 Documentary – interview with four plant-based doctors, including Dr Malcolm Mackay, July 2017
- Dr Malcolm Mackay on practicing lifestyle medicine, fitness and supervising me! interview with Andrew ‘Spud Fit’ Taylor, May 2017
For more information about whole foods plant based nutrition, visit my other website and associated Facebook page:
This case study published yesterday demonstrates reversal of disease with a whole food plant-based diet. We listened to a fabulous talk on lifestyle medicine and the evidence for the efficacy of parachutes by Darren Morton in the closing session of the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine Conference in New Zealand at the weekend. This case study uses a large parachute, fit for the task and successfully deployed. The problem with modern medicine when lifestyle measures are suggested is that they only offer small parachutes which don’t save many people. A whole food plant-based diet is a very large parachute and it works a treat every time it is deployed.
www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00082/full
#WFPBworks #TestimonialTuesday (missed it this week so sneaking it in on Thursday)
Heart Failure and a Plant-Based Diet. A Case-Report and Literature Review
frontiersin.org
A 54-year-old female with grade 3 obesity (BMI 45.2 kg/m2) and type II diabetes (hemoglobin A1c 8.1%) presented to her primary care physician in May 2017 with a chief complaint of left lower extremity edema. Work-up revealed heart failure with depressed left ventricular systolic function. Upon diagn...