Announcements

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

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

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).

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!

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.

“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 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".

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.

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.