Our Story
The Arizona Lifestyle Medicine Institute (AZLM) grew out of a simple frustration: after years of practicing direct primary care, Dr. Kendrick Johnson kept running into the limits of what a single office visit — or a single practice — can do for a patient's long-term health. Treating what shows up in the exam room wasn't enough. The bigger opportunity was further upstream: helping people change the behaviors that lead to disease in the first place, and building a better system for training the physicians who will help them do it. AZLM is that upstream effort — research, training, and tools built to reach people and providers far beyond any one practice.
Our Mission
To empower health and happiness — by helping people change the behaviors that shape their health, and by training the physicians and students who will help them do it.
