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Lifestyle Medicine in Action: Practice Management
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Lifestyle Medicine in Action March 2012 |
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President's Desk: Looking Ahead |
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This is my first column as I step into the ACLM presidency.
First, I want to thank Dr. Wayne Dysinger for his thoughtful and passionate leadership over the past two and a half years. We have made good progress in the work of our committees and our membership is growing. Of course, we have much more work ahead. But I have full confidence that we can continue to make great progress with the new leadership team - a stellar group of board members, including our President-Elect David Katz, MD, MPH - along with the steady guidance of our executive director, Marc Braman, MD, MPH.
We just returned from the annual conference of the American College of Preventive Medicine and American College of Medical Quality held in Orlando, Florida. ACLM was instrumental once more in convening a phenomenal Clinical Preventive Medicine/Lifestyle Medicine Track with David Ferris, MD, MPH serving as the ACLM liaison and Ariane Marie-Mitchel, MD, PhD, MPH serving as track chair.
Highlights included:
- An interactive institute Health Coaching in Real Practice with Eddie Phillips, MD and Margaret Moore, MBA,
- An institute on Nutrition Prescriptions
- A plenary session entitled Food as Medicine with Mark Hyman, MD.
Informative concurrent sessions included:
- Teaching Evidence-Based Clinical Decision Making and Lifestyle Medicine to Medical Students and Residents with Wayne Dysinger, MD, MPH and others,
- How to Build and Sustain a Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine Practice with Jennifer Rooke, MD, MPH, FACOEM, FACPM and John Kelly, MD, MPH
- Cancer Prevention Across the Lifespan with Neal D. Barnard, MD and Lorenzo Cohen, PhD.
Most of these sessions were standing room only, demonstrating that large numbers of our general preventive medicine colleagues are clearly interested in Lifestyle Medicine.
This year we also look forward to a stand-alone Lifestyle Medicine meeting September 30th to October 2nd in Denver, Colorado. Please mark your calendars!
Continue reading at lifestylemedicine.org
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Practice Spotlight: Gunter Dymkova-Fuchs, Dr.HSc. MPH |
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Gunter Dymkova-Fuchs, Dr.HSc. MPH The Fox Group, Consultants to the Healthcare Industry
Gunter Dymkova-Fuchs, Dr.HSc. MPH, is founder and senior partner of The Fox Group, Consultants to the Healthcare Industry. Earning his Master’s in Public Health and Doctorate in Health Science at Loma Linda University, Dr. Fuchs was instrumental in founding several of the first Lifestyle Medicine programs at Loma Linda. He was involved in the creation, design, and development of the Center for Health Promotion, initially offering on-site and mobile services including risk assessments and lifestyle prescriptions. The Center is still in existence today, providing primary and preventive care at the university and in the surrounding areas.
Dr. Fuchs also led the development of Rancho Loma Linda, a residential lifestyle center developed by the university outside of San Diego. The lifestyle center made use of an existing 100-acre facility featuring lodging, a fitness center, pool, spa, and walking trails. Staffed by graduate students and resident physicians and directed by a full-time physician, the residential program focused on weight management. Promoted through the LA Times, the program attracted participants from around the world. Studies conducted by doctoral candidates showed significant changes not only in weight, but also in a number of other clinical measures with significant reduction in risk factors. Dr. Fuchs highlights the center’s financial and clinical success, noting that "the right clinical indicators were moving in the right direction."
While in his doctoral program, he had the opportunity to tour self-supporting wellness-based physician practices and institutions across the country, an experience he found both rewarding and troubling. "What I found were very dedicated people with great attitudes and philosophy, but no sustainability. I cannot remember anyone who was truly self-supporting in the sense of not depending on donations to survive." During that time, he also visited several corporate settings, where he observed sophisticated employee-based wellness programs that not only provided an array of excellent fitness, nutrition, stress management and other services, but also generated revenue in the process.
A Focus on Sustainability
He began to question how to bring financial sustainability to medical and wellness-based practices. "What became apparent to me was sustainability - my whole focus became sustainability." Seeing a lack of business planning and of due diligence, he set out to define success for medical and wellness practices and institutions. "That became my focus and my passion, having talked with so many who were interested and so few who were approaching it from a hard core business development perspective – building a business enterprise that would ultimately be self-sustaining."
Continue reading at lifestylemedicine.org
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Hesuk (Helen) Baek, MD Hospitalist and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Loma Linda University Medical Center Loma Linda, CA
Cecil Bailey, MD Internal Medicine, Heritage Medical & Wellness Cedar Hill, Texas
Kirby Duvall, MD, MPH, MS Medical Director, and Physician Woodward Governor Company Fort Collins, Colorado
Mark Elderbrock, MD Physician, Family Medicine Wooster Family Health Center of Cleveland Clinic Wooster, Ohio
Mark Faries, MS, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Kinesiology & Health Science Stephen F. Austin State University Nacogdoches, Texas
Allan Fjelmberg, MD Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine Lillehammer, Norway
Donna Hamilton, MD, MS Chief Wellness Officer, Speaker Manifest Excellence, LLC, East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania
Jacqueline Huntly, MD, MPH Faculty Physician Family Medicine Residency Memorial University Medical Center Savannah, Georgia
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Daniel Kaplan, DO Family Practice, Geriatric Medicine South Florida Medical Group Naples, Florida
Morgan Lauer Student, University of Colorado School of Medicine Denver, Colorado
Victoria Leiphart, MD Obstetrician & Gynecologist Fremont, California
Toni Marthaller Andersen, MSN, ARNP, FNP-C Integrative Family Nurse Practitioner, Women To Wellness Greenbank Washington
Nicolle Martin, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Morehouse School of Medicine Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine Atlanta, Georgia
Mona Sigal, MD Administrative Director and Practicing Physician, Nourish Health With Food For Life - Pain and Wellness Center Peabody, Massachusets
Vanessa Solomon, MA Student, Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Claremont, California |
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ACLM membership empowers the Lifestyle Medicine movement, advancing healthcare that treats the cause. If you are interested in learning more about the benefits of being a member, you can read about them on our website.
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Links to Opinion Articles, Practice Advice and Patient Handouts |
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American College of Preventive Medicine |
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Publication Addresses Lifestyle and Other Risks |
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British Medical Association Board of Science publication, Risk: what's your perspective, aims to help doctors understand and communicate risk to patients and the public. The publication discusses public health risks such as pandemic influenza, natural disasters, and terrorist attacks, and lifestyle risks such as obesity, alcohol, and tobacco use. |
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Teaching Quality Improvement and Patient Safety in Health Professions Education |
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Mayo Clinic, May 7-8 This 1.5-day, train-the-trainer interactive workshop will provide the knowledge, best practices and tools necessary to successfully implement Quality Improvement and safety education in medical education and allied health schools. |
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ACPM Opposes Use of Prevention Fund to Pay for Tax Extender Package |
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ACPM sent a letter to House and Senate conferees working to negotiate a long-term extension of the "doc fix" in the Medicare physician fee schedule urging they not tap funds from the Prevention and Public Health Fund to pay for higher reimbursements for physician services. The letter states: The Prevention and Public Health Fund, established through the Affordable Care Act, represents a critical investment in public health and a historic commitment towards efforts that will help shift the focus of our health care system from disease treatment to disease prevention and health promotion. |
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Lifestyle Medicine in Action is: |
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Editor-in-Chief: Marc Braman, MD, MPH |
Managing Editor: Kathleen Jones, MA |
Contributing Writer: Wayne Dysinger, MD, MPH |
Contributing Editor: Kathy Cater |
Research Summaries: Lindsey Christenson, M.Ed |
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