American College of Lifestyle Medicine Announcements

ACLM Conference Press Release

Kathy Cater — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 03:01:45 GMT

Please use this link to share information about our conference, Lifestyle Medicine 2012.

Link to Press Release: www.prlog.org/11929360-american-college-of-lifestyle-medicine-to-hold-2012-conference.html

Lifestyle Medicine Conference June Registration Bonus

Kathy Cater — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:18:26 GMT

June Registration BONUS! A $300 value.
Receive 7 hours of BONUS online Category 1 CME when you register in June for the Clinical or Full Lifestyle Medicine 2012 Conference
For Details, go to conference listing

Act Fast! Early Bird Registration for Lifestyle Medicine 2012

Kathy Cater — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:42:41 GMT

Register In April & receive Early Bird pricing!

During the month of April, ACLM is offering the first 25 registrants an entire conference package for $990.

This includes the Annual Conference (9/30-10/2)

& Practice Management Workshop (10/3).

That's up to $300 in savings!

Register NOW

ACLM welcomes new advisor: Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS

Kathy Cater — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:29:58 GMT

ACLM welcomes Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH, FACS, 17th Surgeon General of the United States and Distinguished Professor, University of Arizona, as a member on our Advisory Board. Dr. Carmona applauds the efforts of all health professionals in addressing lifestyle as a key component of pursuing optimal health and wellness through prevention strategies.

We are grateful for Dr. Carmona's acceptance, and look forward to benefiting from his expertise.

Lifestyle Medicine Conference Sunday, September 30 – Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Kathy Cater — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 17:59:36 GMT

Save the date!
American College of Lifestyle Medicine

2012 Annual Conference

Sunday, September 30 – Wednesday, October 3, 2012

The Inverness Hotel and Conference Center

Englewood, Co

More info coming soon!

Lifestyle Medicine in the News

Kathy Cater — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 04:12:38 GMT

New article on Lifestyle Medicine:
"Doctors Who Actually Tackle Your Unhealthy Lifestyle"

published by NPR, featuring ACLM member Damian Folch, MD, and ACLM member and Advisor Edward Phillips, MD, FACSM, FAAPMR.

Latest CHIP Program report published in the January 2012 issue of American Journal of Cardiology

Kathy Cater — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 23:58:04 GMT

“Effectiveness of a Volunteer-Delivered Lifestyle Modification Program for Reducing Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors” is a report on the short term clinical results of a large 5,070 free-living cohort in North America yielding some of the most impressive recorded clinical changes ever in the literature.
The results were achieved by volunteers, making this a most cost effective model for combating chronic disease.

To read the entire article, take this link: http://www.chiphealth.com/about_chip/scientific_articles.php

ACLM President-Elect Liana Lianov, MD, MPH invited to speak in South Korea and receives enthusiastic welcome.

Kathy Cater — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 04:08:03 GMT

ACLM President-Elect Liana Lianov, MD, MPH spoke at Chonbuk National University in Jeonju, the first institution in Korea to start a lifestyle medicine program. This was their first Lifestyle Medicine Symposium, and the emphasis of Dr. Lianov's talk was on the incorporation of LM into practice.

For more about this experience, look for the article in the coming January issue of our e-newsletter, "Lifestyle Medicine in Action".

ACLM Encourages All to Express Concern Over Pizza in School Lunches

Kathy Cater — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 07:22:11 GMT

ACLM encourages its members to participate in this advocacy effort.

CSPI (Center for Science in the Public Interest) has provided a convenient way for anyone to voice their concern over the decision in congress regarding pizza and french fries in school lunches.

Please take this link to use CSPI's online form.

Lifestyle Medicine Webinar sponsored by the AMA: October 27, December 8

Kathy Cater — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 22:52:43 GMT

6 p.m. Eastern time Oct. 27 (3 p.m. Pacific Time)

sponsored by the AMA in collaboration with the ACLM leadership

"Lifestyle Medicine and How It Is Relevant to Your Practice"

CLICK HERE for registration and more information

Earn AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ by participating in a two-part webinar series from the AMA that helps physicians address clinical gaps in preventive medicine. The first webinar will cover physician competencies, including scientific evidence for clinical interventions to improve patients' lifestyles, physician responsibilities and community support. The second webinar will take place at 11 a.m. Eastern time Dec. 8 and examine preventable health risks among patients, prescribing appropriate recommendations and patient follow-up.

Practice Management Workshop a Great Success, Online CME is NOW AVAILABLE

Kathy Cater — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 16:04:57 GMT

ACLM thanks the many attendees and speakers who made our first ever Practice Management Workshop such a wonderful experience, and have expressed their enthusiasm for this event.

Now we are pleased to announce that the workshop was professionally VIDEO recorded, and

Online, On-Demand Version with CME is NOW AVAILABLE!

ACLM members enjoy a substantial discount. (Those who attended the workshop in person have free online access.)

Nutrition Facts Videos on a Consumer Friendly Website

Kathy Cater — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 20:07:27 GMT

NUTRITIONFACTS.ORG

is brought to you by the Jesse & Julie Rasch Foundation in partnership with Michael Greger, M.D.
Dr. Greger scours the world of nutrition-related research, as published in scientific journals, and brings that information to you in short, easy to understand video segments.
We also provide links to the original journal articles whenever possible so that you can source the information directly, if you so desire.

Lifestyle Medicine CME Article Published in Medscape

Kathy Cater — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 16:08:35 GMT

Dr. Liana Lianov, the ACLM President-Elect,
has just published a CME article about the lifestyle medicine competencies in primary care.

This article continues the discussion of the July 14, 2010 JAMA commentary that introduced lifestyle medicine competencies for primary care physicians. The competencies were developed by a blue ribbon consensus panel. The new CME Medscape article discusses some ongoing barriers and solutions for incorporating lifestyle medicine into primary care practice.

Here is a link to the article:

http://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/747743

Lifestyle Medicine Practice Management Workshop

Kathleen Jones — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:10:06 GMT

What is the ultimate event that would bring together and provide practitioners with what they most need and want for Lifestyle Medicine practice success? This is the question we started with. This is what we’ve put together for you.

THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE in partnership with THE INSTITUTE OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE offers:

Realizing the Dream: Lifestyle Medicine Practice Management Workshop

Convening top expertise and proven systems for profitable Lifestyle Medicine practice, this intensive training will walk you through leading-edge strategies designed for YOUR practice success.

September 25^th-28^th 2011, Columbia Gorge National Scenic Area

Be appropriately and consistently reimbursed for Lifestyle Medicine services
Leverage internet technologies to strengthen your Lifestyle Medicine practice
Recognize opportunities in Health Care Reform
Receive individualized practice recommendations
Avoid costly and time-consuming mistakes
Network with other Lifestyle Medicine practitioners

The American College of Preventive Medicine designates this course for a maximum of 20 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) ™

To register, or for more information, click here

Lifestyle Medicine Article published in Journal of Managed Care Medicine

Kathy Cater — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:32:08 GMT

ACLM Director, Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH authored

"Bringing Lifestyle into the Equation"
published in the current issue of the Journal of Managed Care Medicine. With the Journal's permission, here is a link to the article PDF.

http://www.namcp.org/journals/jmcm/articles/14-2/BringingLifestyle.pdf

ACLM Officially Accepted as an Academy of ACPM

Kathy Cater — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 15:34:33 GMT

A significant action taken at the Preventive Medicine/Lifestyle Medicine Conference in San Antonio was for ACPM to formally accept ACLM's request to become one of its academies.

This action does not change the day-to-day functioning of ACLM in any way; ACLM remains an autonomous organization with its own governance, decisions, and finances.

We are confident that the formalized association will help the two organizations collaborate more closely in promoting Lifestyle Medicine and provide future opportunities. Importantly, it will keep the two professional organizations with a Lifestyle Medicine focus working collaboratively, not competitively. We all need to pull together to really bring Lifestyle Medicine into the prominence that it deserves.

The American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine to become official journal of ACLM.

Marc Braman — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 17:35:54 GMT

ACLM has reached an agreement with Sage Publications, publisher of the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine (AJLM), for AJLM to become the official journal of ACLM. ACLM members will receive the every-other-month journal as a member benefit starting in 2011. The journal will carry the ACLM logo on the front cover, but will continue to be owned by Sage publishing and edited by James Rippe, author of the text “Lifestyle Medicine.” Dexter Shurney, MD, MBA, MPH, member of the ACLM board of directors and Medical Director of the employee health plan for Vanderbilt University and Medical Center, will serve on the AJLM editorial board as ACLM’s representative.

This agreement is the result of a relationship that has been developing for close to two years. Both organizations are pleased with the agreement and believe it will help foster the development of the field of Lifestyle Medicine.

ACLM's next annual conference announced - "Lifestyle Medicine 2011"

Marc Braman — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:49:08 GMT

ACLM has just completed an agreement with the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) to convene its annual conference with ACPM's Preventive Medicine 2011 in San Antonio, Texas, February 16-19, 2011. We are very appreciative to ACPM for our ongoing collaboration, and this represents an advance step in combined efforts.

SAVE THE DATES for Lifestyle Medicine 2011.

JAMA Publishes Recommended Competencies in Lifestyle Medicine

Marc Braman — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:44:07 GMT

Today JAMA published the culmination of a project ACLM initiated over 2 years ago. In pursuing the creation of standards and guidelines in Lifestyle Medicine, ACLM sought funding and collaborators toward these ends. As the project progressed, ACPM took over the lead role and hosted the convening of a Blue Ribbon Panel in July of 2009 in Washington, DC. This project has resulted in the first consensus recommendations for competencies in Lifestyle Medicine for primary care providers, and is therefore a major milestone for American health care, for Lifestyle Medicine, and for ACLM.

Click here for 'pdf' of press release.

Text of press release:

JAMA RELEASES RESULTS OF BLUE RIBBON PANEL RECOMMENDATION OF PHYSICIAN COMPETENCIES FOR LIFESTYLE MEDICINE
JAMA. 2010;304(2):202-203 (doi:10.1001/jama.2010.903)

Panel addresses competencies for prescribing lifestyle medicine as a recognized gap in physician practice.

Woodburn, OR – The American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), the leading national specialty society for clinicians emphasizing the use of lifestyle interventions in the treatment and management of disease, is pleased to announce the publication of a competencies in Lifestyle Medicine article in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Lifestyle medicine, defined as “the evidence-based practice of helping individuals and families adopt and sustain healthy behaviors that affect health and quality of life”, is the recommended first line approach for chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, high cholesterol and high blood pressure affecting millions of Americans. ACLM recognizes that current medical education and practice focuses on the use of medications and procedures for most health care. While these modalities do have significant value, a Lifestyle Medicine focus on more natural, wholistic methods of achieving health will go a long way towards improving quality and patient satisfaction and decreasing health care costs. “These recommendations acknowledge what ACLM has been advocating for years,” said Wayne Dysinger, President of ACLM. “Physicians now have credible recommendations that suggest practical competency in the areas of nutrition, stress management,and exercise should be a part of their everyday practice. The scientific evidence is overwhelming that Lifestyle Medicine is a foundational element of treating patients.”

An accepted set of competencies in Lifestyle Medicine for all primary care practitioners is a major step forward in the implementation of lifestyle approaches to disease prevention as well as treatment. “Patients have long sought remedies to their ailments that treat the cause of their problem, not the symptoms with the prescriptions of more and more pills,” said Dysinger.

ACLM is pleased to have partnered with the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM) and other medical specialties in the development of these competencies. We are also grateful to Lifestyle Center of America and Procter & Gamble for providing support for this initiative.

About ACLM:
ACLM is the professional society for physicians and health care practitioners passionate about Lifestyle Medicine. We provide a regular newsletter, continuing medical education, and forums for ongoing discussion and policy development/implementation in Lifestyle Medicine and other member benefits. ACLM and ACPM will jointly convene the annual meetings of the two associations – Lifestyle Medicine 2011 and Preventive Medicine 2011 – February 16-19, 2011 in San Antonio, Texas. For more information on joining or supporting ACLM please contact us at www.lifestylemedicine.org.

Major Publisher Seeks Lifestyle Medicine Book

Marc Braman — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:40:04 GMT

ACLM has been contacted by a major medical publisher regarding the production of a book on Lifestyle Medicine for primary care providers. A more detailed announcement will be forthcoming as we move from the planning to the production phase. This will be a significant boon to the advancement of Lifestyle Medicine in practice.