In Memory of Baxter Montgomery, MD FACC
Baxter Montgomery, MD FACC was a cardiologist and chronic disease interventionist physician who passionately and vigorously implemented nutritional lifestyle interventions based upon the most-minimally-processed end of the plant-based foods spectrum. He developed, and used for many years, a novel food classification and prescription system that facilitates potential reversal of conditions such as cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and diabetes, with the prospect of avoiding future surgeries, prolonged medication and their typical side-effects. Our Plant-based Prevention Of Disease nonprofit knew him very well because he had presented at our first P-POD Conference in 2014 and four others, including as a keynote speaker, and all of us are stunned and profoundly saddened by his untimely passing.
Dr. Montgomery was an original thinker and visionary who was deeply devoted to the service and empowerment of his patients, and he has inspired many other practitioners to imagine greater possibilities in the mobilization of lifestyle changes for altering the future course of lives. Many in society applaud theoretically the nutritional value of foods like vegetables and fruits, while many disparage theoretically the possible detrimental effects of heavily processed foods and the most familiar animal products, but here was someone who constructed cohesive comprehensive real-life medical therapies around all these parameters and carried patients through them with strong clinical follow-up. Those who long knew his his and his staff's hands-on accomplishments in his urban Houston community, and we far-away healthcare practitioners who bore witness to his influence, have suffered a great loss. Peace be with Dr. Montgomery, his family members and his colleagues, and we offer our gratitude for his legacy.
Baxter Montgomery, MD FACC
Founder and Medical Director, Montgomery Heart and Wellness, Houston TX
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of Texas Health Sciences Center
Attending physician at Memorial Hermann Hospital, The Texas Medical Center
Honored as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology
Board certified in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology
Author, The Food Prescription for Better Health
Honored as one of America's Top Physicians in 2007, and as a recipient of the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine in 2010
Executive Director of the nonprofit The Johnsie and Aubary Montgomery Institute of Medical Education and Research
Baxter Montgomery, MD FACC received his Doctorate in Medicine from The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston TX, is board certified in Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology, and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. He has served as Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center since 1996, and for many years was President of Houston Associates of Cardiovascular Medicine. He is the founder and Medical Director of Montgomery Heart and Wellness, a cardiology practice and wellness center in Houston that offers a comprehensive approach to help patients progress from conditions of sickness to wellness and eventually optimal health. He is also an attending physician at Memorial Hermann Hospital of The Texas Medical Center, and its Heart and Vascular Institute, and he serves as Executive Director of the nonprofit organization The Johnsie and Aubary Montgomery Institute of Medical Education and Research.
Dr. Montgomery's primary clinical interest, about which he has written and lectured extensively, is: nutritional lifestyle interventions for the management of chronic illnesses, including, but not limited to, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension and diabetes. He has developed, and used for many years, a novel food classification and prescription system that facilitates potential reversal of conditions such as these without medication or surgeries. This was covered thoroughly in his book The Food Prescription for Better Health, a clinicians' comprehensive guide for reversing chronic illnesses. He was a long-time member of the Advisory Board for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and was named as one of America's Top Physicians in 2007, and received the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine in 2010.