Program: Lifestyle Medicine

Day 1: Basics
9:00-9:40 A.M
Lifestyle Medicine: Overview and Introduction - Dr. Edward Phillips, Harvard Medical School
Learning objectives:
  • Define Lifestyle Medicine and cite attributes of new field of medicine
  • Understand the role of physicians and other health care professionals in behavior change
  • Shift mindset from care of illness to prevention through lifestyle change
9:40-11:00 A.M 
Health, Wellness and Lifestyle Assessment: Prof. Adrian Kennedy and Prof. Savita Date Menon, Apollo Hospitals
Learning objectives:
  • Experience an interactive review of 30 areas of your personal health characteristics
    e.g. stress, sleep, strength, flexibility, diet, etc.
11:00-11:15 A.M 

Tea Break

11:15-12:15 P.M
Exercise and Physical Activity: Dr. Edward Phillips, Harvard Medical School
Learning objectives:
  • Enumerate the benefits of exercise and physical activity
  • Choose types of exercise and physical activity
  • Employ CDC/ACSM recommendations for exercise and physical activity
  • Write an exercise prescription
12:15-01:15 P.M
Nutrition:  Prof. Adrian Kennedy, Apollo Hospitals
Learning objectives:
  • Utilize the USDA Food Pyramid for food choices
  • Employ effective food substitutions for decreased calories
  • Critique literature on supplements
01:15-02:00 P.M 

Lunch

02:00-03:00 P.M
Overweight/Obesity: Dr. Edward Phillips, Harvard Medical School
Learning objectives:
  • History and evolution of the overweight / obesity
  • Epidemiology of worldwide obesity epidemic
  • Efficacy of diets
  • Sequelae of obesity
  • Metabolic syndrome
03:00-04:00 P.M
Smoking and Dependencies: Dr. Susan Parks, Harvard Medical School
Learning objectives:
  • Review history of smoking and tobacco use
  • Literature on effects of smoking and tobacco use
  • Employ various smoking cessation options
04:00-04:15 P.M 

Tea Break

04:15-05:15 P.M
Stress: Prof. Savita Date Menon, Apollo Hospitals
Learning objectives:
  • Distinguish between stress reduction and stress management
  • Understand the link between excessive stress and disease
  • Experience stress management through experiential breathing exercise
05:15-06:15 P.M
Physician Health: Dr. Edward Phillips, Harvard Medical School
Learning objectives:
Personal health behaviors of health professional:
  • Smoking
  • Weight
  • Exercise/Physical Activity
  • Health maintenance (use of personal physician)
Day 2: Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine: Patient Management
9:00-10:00 A.M
Behavioral Change: Theory - Dr. Susan Parks, Harvard Medical School
Learning objectives
Understand successful models of behavioral change
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Transtheoretical Model of Change (Stages of Change)
  • Assessing readiness, willingness and ability to change
  • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
  • Measuring confidence and importance to prioritize areas of change
10:00-11:15 A.M 
Behavior Change Pyramid: Dr. Edward Phillips, Harvard Medical School
Learning objectives:
  • Building foundation blocks for lasting change
  • Vision, Preparation, Action, Results, Self-Image
11:15-11:30 A.M 

Tea Break

11:30-12:30 P.M
Wellness Coaching Demonstration- Dr. Susan Parks, Harvard Medical School
Learning objectives:
  • Practical application of coaching principle
  • Coaching practice among participants
12:30-01:30 P.M
Lifestyle Medicine: The Apollo Experience - Prof. Adrian Kennedy, Apollo Hospitals, Prof. Savita Date Menon, Apollo Hospitals
Learning objectives:
  • Review the implementation of lifestyle medicine in academics, hospitals and corporates.
01:30-02:15 P.M 

Lunch

02:15-03:45 P.M
Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into medical practice:Dr. Edward Phillips, Harvard Medical School
Learning objectives:
  • Increasing patient responsibility
  • Adopting the coaching role, active listening, appreciate inquiry
  • Utilizing authority as a physician to affect change
  • Writing a lifestyle prescription
  • Wellness planning with patients
  • Making appropriate referrals to nutritionist, personal trainer, coach, etc.
03:45-04:00 P.M
Tea Break
04:00-05:00 P.M
Panel Discussion

Dr. Edward Phillips, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Susan Parks, Harvard Medical School
Prof. Adrian Kennedy, Apollo Hospitals
Prof. Savita Date Menon, Apollo Hospitals

05:00 P.M
Adjourn Conference
Course Evaluations
Survey Completion