Katrina Monti Email & Phone Number

I was certified as a physician assistant (PA) in 2009. I completed 23 years of active military service and 11 years as a PA in operational units with multiple operational and combat deployments. Dissatisfied with the current approach in the military health system, which primarily focuses on acute disease management, I earned certification in Lifestyle Medicine in 2019. As I expanded my knowledge in lifestyle medicine and health policy, I became increasingly aware that all the behavior change support in the world cannot overcome the social influencers of health and resulting inequities that deeply affect communities that have been historically disenfranchised. I am passionate about lifestyle medicine to achieve health equity for the benefit of all people, particularly historically marginalized communities. I continue to integrate lifestyle medicine into the Military Health System as the Digital Communications and Membership Data Management Lead, a professional volunteer position, and as a lecturer in the Air Force's Military Lifestyle & Performance Medicine Working Group chartered by the Defense Health Agency. I am passionate about educating patients and the medical community on evidence-based lifestyle medicine and empowering people to make sustainable healthy lifestyle changes to achieve their health goals. I volunteer as a member of the Health Equity Achieved through Lifestyle Medicine (HEAL) Initiative with the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM). I graduated from the Plant-Based Nutrition certificate program through the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies in 2021.I am experienced as a site principal investigator in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (2017-2020) in military concussion research. The results from our research study supported the Traumatic Brain Injury Center of Excellence (TBICoE, formerly Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center's [DVBIC]) adoption of the Vestibular-Ocular Motor Screening Tool into the Military Acute Concussion Evaluation, 2nd version. This experience cultivated a deep value for scientific evidence in policy and clinical practice change. I conducted original research evaluating the knowledge and attitudes of lifestyle medicine-based care in a military community, as well as served as a co-investigator for other research studies. I currently work with the DHA TBICoE as a Research Scientist conducting military concussion-related research.I live on Pacific Coast Salish lands, specifically of the Puyallup Tribe, now called Tacoma, Washington.

Listed skills include Leadership, Wellness, Team Building, Public Speaking, and 40 others.