This symposium on Lifestyle Medicine will bring together experts to focus on current and progressive advances in lifestyle medicine education, medical practice, and research. The symposium will provide insights on how the overwhelming burden of chronic disease can be prevented, managed, and reversed by using evidence based intensive lifestyle-related therapeutic interventions. It provides an opportunity on how lifestyle medicine is redefining healthcare to promote wellbeing and empower patients and communities to engage in self-care. Overall, the symposium will foster an exchange of ideas and engage in interdisciplinary conversations to advance health and well-being of patients, communities, and populations
.
Identified Practice Gaps/Educational Needs
Despite valid research findings supporting the benefits of lifestyle medicine, healthcare professionals remain unfamiliar and or skeptical about the usefulness of lifestyle medicine in the management and prevention of chronic diseases. Healthcare practitioners who utilize lifestyle medicine in their practice report benefits both for their patients and themselves. Additionally, studies have repeatedly confirmed that patient satisfaction with lifestyle medicine is very high. Gaps related to lifestyle medicine in healthcare are evident and must be addressed to improve patient care and overall patient outcomes.
Overall Learning Objectives
At the end of the symposium, participants will be able to:
- Discuss the role of lifestyle medicine in redefining healthcare
- Describe how the realm of lifestyle medicine promotes wellbeing
- Examine lifestyle medicine advances, challenges, and opportunities
Target Audience
This activity is intended for physicians, nurses, allied health professionals, researchers, educators, public health professionals, dentists, pharmacists, healthcare administrators, and others.
Register NOW
Institute for Population Health