Director of Medical Education and Community Engagement at the nonprofit Ethos Farm to Health

Conductor of a pilot pragmatic randomized control trial of an academic-community lifestyle medicine program with additional partnering of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, the Urban Agriculture Cooperative and Greater Newark Conservancy

Former Marketing Committee Chair and Executive Board member, Lifestyle Medicine Pre-Professional Working Group for American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Former Founder/President, Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School

Former Project Principal Investigator at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School:  Impact of Student-led Lifestyle Medicine Programs on Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviors of Medical Students

Honored as a Tillmann Scholar by the Pat Tillmann Foundation, and recipient of the Trailblazer Award from the Student National Medical Association and New Jersey Medical School, and the Donald A. Pegg Lifestyle Medicine Student Leadership Award from ACLM

Staff Sergeant and Combat Medic for 6 years, New Jersey Army National Guard

Saul Bautista, MD MPH received his Doctorate in Medicine from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School after earning a Master of Public Health degree at Rutgers School of Public Health and a Bachelor's in Biology at Rutgers University - Newark.  He had previously served as a Staff Sergeant and Combat Medic for six years at the New Jersey Army National Guard and he went on to pursue post-graduate training in internal medicine, pediatrics, and family medicine.   Along the way, he was honored as a Tillmann Scholar by the Pat Tillmann Foundation, and received the Trailblazer Award from the Student National Medical Association and New Jersey Medical School, and the Donald A. Pegg Lifestyle Medicine Student Leadership Award from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

Dr. Bautista has since the beginnings of his medical career advocated vigorously for establishment of key roles for lifestyle medicine within medical education.  At Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, he founded and served as President of the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group, under the mentorship of Drs. Saray Stancic and Ronald Weiss, and served as Project Principal Investigator for the study "Impact of Student-led Lifestyle Medicine Programs on Physical Activity and Dietary Behaviors of Medical Students".  He also served as Marketing Committee Chair and an Executive Board member for the Lifestyle Medicine Pre-Professional Working Group of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and his long-range vision is the blending of clinical preventive medicine and lifestyle medicine.

Dr. Bautista currently serves as Director of Medical Education and Community Engagement at Ethos Farm to Health, pioneering nonprofit that merges healthcare with regenerative farming to educate physicians and farmers while addressing climate change.  He is there piloting a pragmatic randomized control trial of an academic-community lifestyle medicine program with additional collaboration of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences, and community partnership of the Urban Agriculture Cooperative and Greater Newark Conservancy.  He intends, at the community level, to build a culture of health that mitigates and prevents chronic disease by empowering people with the skills needed to be active stewards of their health, thus addressing lifestyle, health-related social needs and social determinants of health.