The Brain Health Revolution: Transformative Strategies for Cognitive Resilience

This session is a recorded presentation from ACLM’s LM2024 Annual Conference, featuring leading experts and timely, clinically relevant content in lifestyle medicine.

Join us for an interactive and a compelling keynote speech by Dean and Ayesha Sherzai, MD, as we delve into the groundbreaking strategies that revolutionize brain health. This presentation will explore cutting-edge research and practical approaches to enhancing cognitive resilience through lifestyle. Discover how integrating comprehensive lifestyle changes can drastically reduce the risk of neurodegenerative diseases and promote cognitive longevity. Gain insights into the power of community and social interactions in maintaining mental health and learn how to apply these principles to benefit individuals and populations alike. Whether you're a healthcare professional, a caregiver, or someone passionate about brain health, this talk will equip you with the knowledge and tools to transform lives.

This course expires September 21, 2027 at 11:59 PM PST.  

Target Audience

This course is applicable for the interprofessional healthcare team including physicians, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician associates, registered dietitians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, other health professionals working with chronic disease prevention or treatment, certified health coaches, and clinicians in training.

Learning Objectives

  1. Explore how lifestyle factors such as diet, exercise, stress, sleep, cognitive engagement and vascular risk factors contribute to brain health.
  2. Identify key factors that support neuroprotection and cognitive function, and how these can be integrated into daily routines.
  3. Investigate how sustained engagement in community activities can contribute to cognitive resilience, emotional well-being, and overall mental health.
  4. Develop strategies for comprehensive lifestyle modification that encompasses diet, exercise, stress management, and social engagement to promote cognitive health and prevent cognitive decline.

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.25 AAFP Prescribed

    The AAFP has reviewed The Brain Health Revolution: Transformative Strategies for Cognitive Resilience and deemed it acceptable for up to 1.25 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit(s). Term of Approval is from 9/18/2025 to 9/18/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. .

  • 1.25 ABIM Medical Knowledge

    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participation completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

  • 1.25 ABLM MOC

    The American Board of Lifestyle Medicine has approved 1.25 maintenance of certification credits (MOC) for this learning activity.

  • 1.25 ABS Accredited CME

    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

  • 1.25 ACPE Pharmacy

    Rush University Medical Center designates this knowledge-based enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 contact hour(s) for pharmacists.

  • 1.25 ACPE Technician

    Rush University Medical Center designates this knowledge-based enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 contact hour(s) for pharmacy technicians.

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Rush Medical Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.25 ANCC

    Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 nursing contact hour(s).

  • 1.25 APA

    Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for 1.25 CE credits in psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship in the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

  • 1.25 ASWB

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Rush University Medical Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved continuing education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 general continuing education credits.

  • 1.25 CPEU

    This enduring material has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration. Completion of this activity awards 1.25 CPEUs.

  • 1.25 Occupational Therapy CE

    Rush University Medical Center is an approved provider for physical therapy (216.000378) and occupational therapy (224.000220) by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for 1.25 continuing education credits.

  • 1.25 Participation (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for non-MDs)

    Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.25 Physical Therapy CE

    Rush University Medical Center is an approved provider for physical therapy (216.000378) and occupational therapy (224.000220) by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for 1.25 continuing education credits.

Course opens: 
09/22/2025
Course expires: 
09/21/2026
Cost:
$50.00
Part of: 
Lifestyle Medicine Now

 

Ayesha Z. Sherzai, MD

Dr. Ayesha Sherzai is a neurologist and co-director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda University, where she leads the Lifestyle Program for the Prevention of Neurological Diseases. She completed a dual training in Preventative Medicine and Neurology at Loma Linda University, and a fellowship in Vascular Neurology and Epidemiology at Columbia University. She is also a trained plant-based culinary artist.


Dean Sherzai, MD, MAS, MPH, PhD (c)

Dr. Dean Sherzai is a behavioral neurologist / neuroscientist whose entire life has been dedicated to behavioral change models at the community and population level. Dean finished his medical and neurology residencies at Georgetown University with a subsequent fellowship in neurodegenerative diseases at the National Institutes of Health, followed by a second fellowship in Dementia and Geriatrics at the University of California, San Diego. He also holds two master’s degrees in advanced sciences at UCSD and in Epidemiology from Loma Linda University. He has received a PhD in Healthcare leadership focused on community empowerment from Loma Linda/Andrews University. Finally, he completed the executive leadership program at Harvard Business School. His vision has always been to revolutionize healthcare by empowering communities to take control of their own health.

Accreditation Statement, Disclosure Information, and Credit Designation Statements

Joint Providership Statement: In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by RUSH University Medical Center and American College of Lifestyle Medicine. RUSH University Medical Center is Jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education, Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing medical education for the healthcare team.

Disclosure Information

Unapproved Uses of Drugs/Devices: In accordance with requirements of the FDA, the audience is advised that information presented in this continuing medical education activity may contain references to unlabeled or unapproved uses of drugs or devices. Please refer to the FDA approved package insert for each drug/device for full prescribing/utilization information.

It is the policy of the Interprofessional Continuing Education office at RUSH to ensure that its CE activities are independent, free of commercial bias. Therefore, we manage all financial relationships associated with accredited continuing education activities. RUSH asks everyone who has the ability to control or influence the content of an educational activity to disclose information about all of their financial relationships with ineligible companies within the prior 24 months.

An ineligible company is an entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. There is no minimum threshold; individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies. Individuals must disclose regardless of their view of the relevance of relationships to education. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any potential conflicts of interest prior to the planning, implementation, or evaluation of the continuing education activity. If a financial relationship is identified for the person in control of content, conflict mitigation strategies will be used to mitigate the financial relationship before they assume their role.

Individuals in control of content for this activity have the following relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose and all financial relationships have been mitigated.

NameDisclosure
Rohit Moghe, PharmD, MSPH, CDCESMember, Speaker's Bureau - Novo Nordisk

All other individuals in control of content have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

Available Credit

  • 1.25 AAFP Prescribed

    The AAFP has reviewed The Brain Health Revolution: Transformative Strategies for Cognitive Resilience and deemed it acceptable for up to 1.25 Enduring Materials, Self-Study AAFP Prescribed credit(s). Term of Approval is from 9/18/2025 to 9/18/2025. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. .

  • 1.25 ABIM Medical Knowledge

    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 1.25 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participation completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

  • 1.25 ABLM MOC

    The American Board of Lifestyle Medicine has approved 1.25 maintenance of certification credits (MOC) for this learning activity.

  • 1.25 ABS Accredited CME

    Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.

  • 1.25 ACPE Pharmacy

    Rush University Medical Center designates this knowledge-based enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 contact hour(s) for pharmacists.

  • 1.25 ACPE Technician

    Rush University Medical Center designates this knowledge-based enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 contact hour(s) for pharmacy technicians.

  • 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

    Rush Medical Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.25 ANCC

    Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 nursing contact hour(s).

  • 1.25 APA

    Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for 1.25 CE credits in psychology. Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship in the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs.

  • 1.25 ASWB

    As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Rush University Medical Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved continuing education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1.25 general continuing education credits.

  • 1.25 CPEU

    This enduring material has been approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration. Completion of this activity awards 1.25 CPEUs.

  • 1.25 Occupational Therapy CE

    Rush University Medical Center is an approved provider for physical therapy (216.000378) and occupational therapy (224.000220) by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for 1.25 continuing education credits.

  • 1.25 Participation (AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for non-MDs)

    Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

  • 1.25 Physical Therapy CE

    Rush University Medical Center is an approved provider for physical therapy (216.000378) and occupational therapy (224.000220) by the Illinois Department of Professional Regulation. Rush University Medical Center designates this enduring material for 1.25 continuing education credits.

Price

Cost:
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Access to online material is granted through the term of approval, which ends September 21, 2027.

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