Phase 2 Advancing Lifestyle Medicine among all Health Professionals (October 2022)
ACLM’s Partial Academic Pathway for health professions programs currently has 22 active universities. Ninety-four students have applied and been approved for the certification pre-requisite waiver for their successful completion of an ACLM-approved course. Three have since graduated and plan to take the certification exam this fall. Plans are underway to begin the Full Academic Pathway pilot this fall.
Recent in-person participation at conferences:
American Academy of Physician Associates – Exhibitor booth with Full Plate Living handouts. Drs. Dexter Shurney, Dean and Ayesha Sherzai did a keynote panel presentation on brain health that was very well received.
American Association of Nurse Practitioners - Exhibitor booth with Full Plate Living handouts.
International Council of Nurses – Submitted LM abstracts r/t geriatrics and global LM initiatives. While these two abstracts were not accepted, Kelly Freeman also provided support and mentorship to nurses whose abstracts were submitted (see photos below)
Lifestyle medicine-related abstracts that have been submitted recently:
American Society on Aging's 70th Anniversary Conference March 25-28, 2024
American Association of Ambulatory Care Nurses April 2-6, 2024 Chicago
American Geriatrics Society May 9-11, 2024 (virtual)
American Association of Nurse Practitioners June 25-30, 2024 (Nashville, TN)
Upcoming plans to submit to:
Coalition of Advanced Practice Nurses of Indiana – February 2024
Society of Behavioral Medicine – March 2024
Academy Health Annual Research Meeting – June 2024
Upcoming in-person conference representation:
American Public Health Association – Fall Conference
Society of Behavioral Medicine – Spring Conference
Recent presentations:
Indiana University Physician Assistant program – Intro to LM presentation to 42 students and 2 faculty. Discussed Full Plate Living and Plantwise.
Indiana Geriatrics Society – Annual spring dinner. Co-presented to around 50 people. LM for the older adult. Discussed Full Plate Living and Plantwise.
CADI Summit – Moderated event and was on the planning committee. ACLM member/faculty from Taylor University presented about their undergraduate lifestyle medicine clinic, the Invitation Program
Indiana Consortium for Integrative Medicine and Health – Intro to LM
Upcoming presentations:
Marian University – Family nurse practitioner program
Sigma Theta Tau International Nursing Society – Arranged for this fall’s “LM for the Advanced Practice Nurse” presentation as a follow-up to this Intro to LM webinar for all nurses and am providing support for a full LM series for the spring. Dr. Josie Bidwell will present this fall.
PESI – Supported their desire to create an LM for nurses webinar series and assisted in identifying/recommending DipACLM speakers and topics. They are co-branding ACLM patient resources.
Villanova University – Intro to LM (alongside Kaitlyn Pauley)
DIP-IN researchers from IU School of Public Health and community health workers
Publications:
American Nurse – Cody Stubbe, RN, MSN – supported the writing of an article about LM from a nurses’ perspective which should be published within the next 9 months
American Journal of Nursing – Working with Drs. Ali Craig Rodriguez and Karla Rodriguez to submit an article about the role of LM within nursing
American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine – Almost finished writing an article with Drs. Anu Rasmussen and Zipporah Brown to submit to AJLM about the Partial Academic Pathway
Other:
Representing ACLM and lifestyle medicine through the Nurses' Obesity Network.
Working with American Nurses’ Association Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation leadership and have ongoing collaboration to spotlight ACLM nurse members and initiatives. ACLM is a Healthy Nurse, Healthy Nation Champion.
Comments:
There is now a “full court press” getting information out about the Partial Academic Pathway. I’ll be presenting at LM2023 Monday and then there is a concurrent session with Drs. Zipporah Brown and Anu Raisanen. Tuesday that will demonstrate how faculty have made this work. Much of my time is devoted to faculty outreach and support to get this into their programs. We’ve got 2 new programs so far this fall: Rosalind Franklin University (nutrition/dietetics) and the University of Arkansas (Pharmacy). The Full Pathway pilot is currently running. It will likely be the Fall of 2024 when we roll this out nationally.
Another major project right now is the buildout of the LM Certificate (for anyone who does not qualify for certification, for example community health workers) and LM Certificate for Nurses (for any nurse who would like LM tools/resources, clinical guidance and includes health coaching and leadership modules). The goal is to have these two offerings available in Q1 2024.
Photos from the International Council of Nurses Conference, Montreal, Canada, July 2023
Karla Rodriguez, DNP, CNE, NC-BC, DipACLM - Experiential Learning to Increase Health Promoting Behaviors within a Nursing Elective Course
Meryl Fury, MS, RN - Children's Nutrition is Our Future: Plant-Centered Diets for Children: A Relevant and Potent Tool to Transform Global Health
JoAnne Evans, MEd, RN, PMHCNS-BC -
Nutritional Psychiatry - A Treatment Approach to Improve Mental Health
Engaging Nurses to Utilize Plant-based Nutrition to Prevent and Reverse Chronic Diseases
