Lila Crutchfield

Lila Crutchfield is a nurse practitioner and worked for Dr. Dean Ornish at the Preventive Medicine Research Institute between 1998 and 2005. She received her B.A. in English from Stanford University, her R.N. degree from the University of California at San Francisco, and her nurse practitioner degree from San Jose State University. Prior to working at PMRI, she worked for many years as a clinician providing women’s health care, specializing in the needs of adolescents. During this time she also pursued her life long interest in yoga by becoming certified as an Integral Yoga instructor. She subsequently became active in the Teacher Training Program of the Integral Yoga Institute, and was the primary trainer for new teachers for several years. More recently she has combined her nursing and yoga expertise in the development and implementation of the Anatomy and Physiology portion of teacher training.

At PMRI, Lila worked as Director of Stress Management for the Prostate Cancer Lifestyle Trial, as Project Director and nurse case manager. She lives in San Francisco with her husband and young son.