Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change

Evidence-Based Approaches to Help Patients Initiate and Sustain Healthy Behaviors

Lifestyle Medicine will be held online this year, using live streaming, electronic Q&A, and other remote learning technologies. 

Overview

This immersive two-day course offers state-of-the-art strategies to guide patients to healthier lives. Education includes evidence-based strategies, tools, and techniques to effect healthier changes in patients (and ourselves), including weight loss, exercise, sleep, stress management, nutrition, mental health, and health/wellness coaching. 

Past participants report a renewed passion for practicing medicine and reduced personal stress as they learn to enhance their own health and to serve as role models for their patients.

Reasons to Attend in 2025
Our daily work as healthcare professionals increasingly involves caring for patients with diseases that are ultimately caused by or exacerbated by poor diet, lack of exercise, stress, and inadequate sleep. Yet professional training does not sufficiently prepare us to leverage our position of trust to help patients initiate health-promoting behaviors. At the same time, we are seeing payment structures rapidly evolve to reward clinicians based upon our patients’ health behaviors and health outcomes. These factors have given rise to an overwhelming demand for evidence-based lifestyle medicine practices that have been shown to prevent, treat, and even reverse chronic diseases. That is precisely what is offered at Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change.

Highlights of the 2025 program include:

• Obesity medicine: strategies for daily practice
• Stress, mindfulness, and meditation
• Advising patients on nutrition in 2025
• Lifestyle medicine for underserved populations
• Culinary medicine
• Health and wellness coaching in day-to-day practice
• Exercise is medicine
• Exercise prescription and new data on the benefits of resistance training
• Brain energy: lifestyle and metabolic interventions for mental health
• Sleep problems: effective interventions
• Perspectives on clinician self-care in 2025: what it is and why it matters
• Transforming knowledge into action