May 16, 2024 12:00 pm Central
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Guest Panelists:
Kathy Pollard, MS, American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Host: Paul Terry, PhD, HERO
Lifestyle medicine is an emerging field of healthcare in which practitioners use evidence-based lifestyle interventions to treat chronic conditions. Lifestyle medicine addresses the root causes of disease and incorporates behavioral medicine across six domains of health behavior as treatment: a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, risky substance avoidance, and positive social connections. Research indicates that practitioners experience less burnout by implementing a greater proportion of lifestyle medicine. A recent paper published in the American Journal of Health Promotion offers results of a self-reported survey of practitioners on lifestyle medicine and a review of physician burnout as it relates to its practice.
In this webinar, we will review the findings of a mixed methods study indicating the merits of practicing lifestyle medicine, what this practice is, and what the healthcare practitioners who implement lifestyle medicine sufficiently into their practice report about it. Kathryn Pollard, Research Projects Manager for the certifying body, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and lead author of the paper reporting on the study, is our guest.
Speaker: Kathryn J. Pollard, MS, is the Research Projects Manager for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) and also serves as the administrating officer of the ACLM Global Sustainability Committee. As a trained nutritionist, she is an adjunct instructor for the University of New England graduate clinical nutrition program. Kathryn’s 2023 book, Eating Does It: Healing Our World and Our Planet with Food, serves as a guidebook for addressing our most pressing global challenges: climate change and epidemic chronic disease.
Host: Paul Terry, PhD, is a Senior Fellow at HERO where he leads our learning agenda. Paul is also Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Health Promotion. His prior positions were president and CEO at HERO, president and CEO at StayWell Health Management, and president and CEO at The Park Nicollet Institute. Paul is the author of four books and over 200 research and professional papers. A study he led won the C. Everett Koop National Health Award. He was awarded two Fulbright Senior Scholarships and served on advisory councils for The National Academy of Sciences, the American Heart Association, the CDC, the University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.