The Preventive Medicine Research Institute (PMRI) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public organization founded in 1984 by Dean Ornish, M.D. It conducts research, education, and service focused on preventive and lifestyle medicine, especially how diet, exercise, stress reduction, and social connection can help prevent, treat, and sometimes reverse chronic disease.
PMRI typically supports policies that advance preventive medicine, lifestyle medicine, chronic disease prevention, evidence-based public health, and broader access to interventions such as nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and cardiac rehabilitation.
Primarily funded by philanthropic donations, grants, and other charitable contributions; it also receives support through research and educational activities.
Dean Ornish, M.D.; Harvard Medical School; University of California, San Francisco; other academic medical institutions and lifestyle medicine partners.
non-profit organization
