Dear Friends and Colleagues,

The 2023 Inaugural Academic Conference of the Sri Lankan Society of Lifestyle Medicine (SLSLM) will be held from 5th to 7th October 2023 in Colombo with speakers from eight (8) countries and four (4) continents including luminaries of the discipline of lifestyle medicine from the United States. This year our theme is 'Advancing Evidence-based Practice and Practice-based Evidence in Lifestyle Medicine'.

This conference will cover a wide range of timely and pertinent thematic areas of lifestyle medicine from family medicine and lifestyle medicine, nutrition and food policy, positive psychology and behavioral interventions, reversal of chronic diseases, physical activity, community engagement, physician health, and lifestyle medicine practices in the globe. Sri Lankan health professionals will also get the opportunity to become certified by the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine (IBLM) on the last day of the conference, i.e., Saturday 7 October 2023.

We, the board and the members of the SLSLM, warmly welcome all of you to our 2023 Inaugural Academic Conference. Please register your interest below with your contact information. We will keep you posted on early bird registration for the conference, special rates for the IBLM diploma examination, abstract submission, and conference program via email and social media pages soon!

For queries, please write to us at info@slslm.org.lk.

In health,

The board members of SLSLM.