Lifestyle Medicine, and Obesity & Weight Management

Dr. Arlington Lightbourne is a Bahamian General Practice and Emergency Physician with advanced training in Nutrition, Lifestyle Medicine, and Obesity & Weight Management. Dr. Lightbourne served 5 years in the Accident & Emergency and also the Anesthesia and Critical Care Departments of Princess Margaret Hospital.

He resigned from PMH in 2014 and has since served at The Medi-Center Prince Charles, The Walk-in Clinics and still serves as a part-time ER Physician at both Doctors Hospital and the Bahamas Medical Center. Dr. Lightbourne believes that everyone can live a life free of preventable diseases. That’s why he has decided to dedicate his life to researching and teaching the truth about what makes us sick, what makes us fat, the role of the environment in disease, the study of food as medicine and the science of creating health.

Dr. Lightbourne is a recognized leader, speaker, educator, advocate and soon to be author in the field of disease prevention. He is the founder and president of Bahamas Wellness Clinic, whose mission is to reduce lifestyle-related death and disease in the Bahamas through physician-directed interventions with patients.Dr. Lightbourne and his team have had tremendous success in its medical weight loss and diabetes reversal programs which have become its signatures services. He is married to Nurse Lori Lightbourne and they have two kids.