VIRTUAL: The Practice and Teaching of Lifestyle Medicine Across Canada
When:
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Where:
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Description:
Please join us for the second Healthy People, Healthy Planet Speaker Series! This virtual series will focus on promoting healthy behaviour with a focus on the intersection of lifestyle interventions and planetary health to achieve optimal wellbeing.
Panelists:
Dr. Jasdeep Saluja
Dr. Brendan Byrne
Dr. Jules Cormier
Dr. Rikin Patel
Dr. Caroline Rhéaume
Dr. Maria Theodorou
Objectives:
- To discuss different care delivery models for Lifestyle Medicine in Canada.
- To discuss paradigm shift in medical practice such that emphasis is placed on prevention and reversal of chronic disease through intensive lifestyle intervention. i.e. treating the root cause of disease rather than symptom management.
- To review continuing medical education opportunities for physicians and allied health care professions to improve competence and/or to become certified in Lifestyle Medicine.
- To discuss initiatives for inclusion of Lifestyle Medicine in the teaching curricula for both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education.
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Free
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