Rallie McAllister
Founder of Performax, The Wellness Company, a family and corporate medicine practice emphasizing nutrition, weight management, and disease prevention.
Author: Healthy Lunchbox: The Working Mom's Guide to Keeping You and Your Kids Trim (Lifeline Press, 2003), The Busy Couples Guide to Great Sex, (Running Press, 2004), and Weight Loss 101: What Your Doctor Didn't Tell You, (Robral Publishers, 1986).
Syndicated Columnist: Creators Syndicate, Los Angeles, CA. Your Health by Dr. Rallie McAllister runs weekly in U.S. and Canadian newspapers, and on dozens of health-related web sites. Doctor to Doctor by Rallie McAllister, M.D. appears monthly in the physicians' journal M.D. News.
Media: Host of Rallie on Health, a weekly regional health magazine on WJHL News Channel 11 with over one million viewers in a five-state area, and former host of No Bones About It, a weekly radio talk show. Interviews featured in USA Today, Better Homes and Gardens, Parents Magazine, Family Circle, Red Book, Glamour, Energy Times, WebMd, and numerous other publications throughout the U.S.
Speaker and Educator: National Board of Speakers for Roche Laboratories, Wyeth Ayerst, Knoll Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, and Abbot Laboratories. Guest lecturer for Claire Boothe Luce Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., East Tennessee State University Medical School, Habitat for Humanity, American Dietetic Association, Wellmont Health Systems, and numerous corporations, churches, school systems, and children's groups.
Education: Board Certified Family Physician since 1998 and a Diplomat of the American Academy of Family Physicians. McAllister earned her Doctor of Medicine degree at James H. Quillen College of Medicine at East Tennessee State University in 1995, and completed her residency training in Family Medicine in 1997. McAllister also holds the following degrees: Master of Public Health, Master of Science in Environmental Health, and Bachelor of Science in Agriculture.
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