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Lifestyle Medicine Now is a 20-hour online educational series featuring cutting-edge sessions from leading researchers, clinicians, and academicians who are advancing the integration of lifestyle medicine as the foundation of health and healthcare.
This flexible, CME/CE/MOC-accredited series allows participants to enroll in the full program or select individual sessions. Each session includes NBME-style quiz questions to reinforce learning and support credit claiming.
The series explores the most urgent and innovative topics in lifestyle medicine—from nutrition science and behavioral change to brain health, health equity, and planetary well-being. Whether you're a clinician, educator, or health advocate, this series equips you with the tools and insights to lead transformative change in patient care and population health.
Target Audience
Physicians, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, registered dietitians, physical therapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, other health professionals working with chronic disease prevention or treatment, certified health coaches, clinicians in training.
Learning Objectives
- Recall the six pillars of lifestyle medicine and their evidence-based applications in chronic disease prevention and reversal.
- Identify key lifestyle-related risk factors for cognitive decline, musculoskeletal conditions, and pediatric health concerns.
- Summarize the findings from landmark studies, including the 85-year Harvard study on human thriving and recent RCTs on Alzheimer’s disease and lifestyle medicine.
- Explain the connection between food choices, planetary health, and sustainable healthcare systems.
- Implement NIH-backed habit formation strategies to support rapid and sustainable behavior change in clinical settings.
- Apply lifestyle medicine interventions to fall prevention, connective tissue diseases, and occupational therapy models.
- Differentiate between traditional and lifestyle-based approaches to managing chronic conditions, including mental health and screen overuse.
- Analyze the role of spirituality, behavioral science, and interprofessional collaboration in enhancing patient outcomes.
- Critique the effectiveness of interprofessional lifestyle medicine programs and food-as-medicine initiatives in advancing health equity.
- Assess the scalability and impact of lifestyle medicine interventions across diverse populations and healthcare systems.
- Design patient-centered care plans that integrate lifestyle medicine principles across specialties and settings.
- Develop strategies to lead systems-level change in healthcare delivery, education, and policy using lifestyle medicine as a foundation.