George E. Guthrie is a board-certified family medicine physician and a member of the academic program at AdventHealth's Centre for Family Medicine in Winter Park, Florida, where he trains medical residents with a focus on community and lifestyle medicine. Dr. Guthrie received his MD degree from Loma Linda University. After completing his family medicine residency, he served on the island of Guam in Micronesia. The high incidence of type 2 diabetes in the population there awakened his interest in the effective treatment of chronic disease through lifestyle change. That experience transformed the focus of his entire medical career. He returned to Loma Linda and earned a master's degree in public health with a focus on nutrition. Dr. Guthrie has helped to spearhead the development of several lifestyle-change programs, including the Complete Health Improvement Project (CHIP), the Wellspring Diabetes Program, and AdventHealth's CREATION Life program. His work in these programs has opened the door for him to lecture on lifestyle medicine to audiences in the United States and around the world, including a healthy living television series entitled Your Life and Health. Dr. Guthrie is a past president and active member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. He maintains certification from the Board for Certification of Nutrition Specialists (BCNS) and is a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE). One of Dr. Guthrie's greatest joys is seeing his patients and community members embrace the principles of whole-food, plant-based eating and watching their health transformations.
