Dr. Lisa Smith Kilpela is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatrics, Gerontology, and Palliative Medicine at UT Health San Antonio, with a cross-appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. She serves as Associate Director of the Center for Research to Advance Community Health (ReACH Center), Director of the UT Health SA Dialectical Behavior Therapy program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, and she is a faculty member within the Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies. Dr. Smith Kilpela is a licensed clinical psychologist and implementation scientist working to reduce health disparities through community-engaged research. Much of her career has involved community-based participatory research methods in the domain of increasing scalability and sustainable delivery of evidence-based interventions into communities. This work is rooted in considerations of contextual factors that impact intervention delivery and aims to improve health disparities. She is a 2019 Beeson Emerging Leaders Scholar from the NIH/AFAR, and her research has been supported by funding from the NIH/NIA, AHRQ, Texas DSHS, VA, ARPA, and HRSA. Also, Dr. Smith Kilpela has contributed to the Body Project for nearly 25 years, including serving as a master trainer for much of this time. She co-developed with Dr. Becker the peer-facilitator model used in the Body Project and its various iterations. Dr. Smith Kilpela is dedicated to challenging the eating disorders stereotype by engaging historically understudied communities and making strides toward improving mental health equity among underrepresented and underserved populations.