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Nutrition Module
Module Overview
Incorporating nutrition assessment and intervention into your practice is a key step toward practicing lifestyle medicine. Many healthy eating strategies revolve around lifestyle changes of your patients. Your increased knowledge and competence about proper nutrition will help with better diagnosis and treatment options for improved health for your patients.

Nutrition Introduction | Kayli Anderson, MS, RDN, ACSM-EP, DipACLM 

  • Introduction to Nutrition Assessment and Working with Nutrition Team Members

Nutrition and Diabetes | Scott Stoll, MD, FABPMR

  • Part 1: Diabetes and the Importance of Dietary Change 
  • Part 2: Diabetes and the Importance of Dietary Change

Nutrition Prescriptions | Wayne S. Dysinger, MD, MPH, FACLM, FACPM, DipABLM 

  • Part 1: Writing Specific Nutrition Prescriptions 
  • Part 2: Basic Nutrition Guidelines 
  • Part 3: Macronutrients and Micronutrients 
  • Part 4: Nutrition and Disease 

Nutrition Research | Michael Greger, MD, FACLM 

  • Nutrition Research and Its Role in Chronic Disease Management
Specific Objectives
  • Perform and/or interpret anthropometric, biochemical, and clinical assessments on patients
  • Conduct a basic nutrition assessment on patients
  • Make basic nutrition prescriptions for their patients' long-term health maintenance
  • Implement practical strategies for assisting patients to achieve dietary changes
  • Consider the benefits of working with a registered dietitian team member to improve patient outcomes
  • Differentiate Type 1 and 2 diabetes characteristics and treatment strategies
  • Interpret the laboratory values for pre-diabetes and diabetes
  • Recognize the health consequences of the global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes
  • Evaluate the benefits of incorporating lifestyle medicine into practice versus aggressive medical management
  • Comprehend the basic components and key aspects of a successful DPP program including clinical application
  • Identify the primary risk factors for the development of type 2 diabetes
  • Examine the key dietary elements that contribute to insulin resistance and beta cell dysfunction and death
  • Explain the comprehensive benefits of a whole food plant-based lifestyle intervention for type 2 diabetes versus more aggressive medical management
  • Review the foundational research supporting a whole food plant-based diet for the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes
  • Describe the key considerations and application steps that should be included in a whole food plant-based lifestyle prescription
  • Recognize that nutrition prescriptions are one of the core lifestyle medicine competencies
  • Write effective nutrition prescriptions for patients that are very specific
  • Analyze the science behind introducing nutrition-focused services in practice
  • Counsel patients that “how you eat” makes a difference in overall health
  • Discuss the importance of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins with patients
  • Counsel patients how to consume a healthy intake of vitamins and minerals
  • Summarize nutrition prescriptions for the most common chronic diseases
  • Prescribe nutrition for basic disease processes
  • Describe the role of nutrition in preventing and treating chronic diseases
  • Use data from the major nutrition studies and evidence base for nutrition prescriptions in practice
  • Cite ways nutrition interventions can be used in disease management
Speakers

Kayli Anderson, MS, RDN, ACSM-EP, DipACL
Self-Employed

Kayli Anderson has devoted her career to helping people find peace with food and approach nutrition in a way that maximizes both their health and joy. As a culinary-trained dietitian and Intuitive Eating Counselor, Kayli guides people on their food journey through cooking instruction, mindfulness, and lifestyle medicine. She works with women in all stages of life in her private practice Kayli Anderson Nutrition. Kayli is Lead Faculty for the ACLM's Food as Medicine course, and faculty for the ABLM Review course, Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum and Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies. Kayli has authored nutrition chapters for two textbooks: Lifestyle Medicine Handbook and Improving Women's Health Across the Lifespan. She is nutrition consultant for The Plantrician Project and author of the Plant-Based Nutrition Quick Start Guide. She earned her B.S. in Nutrition & Dietetics and her M.S. in Nutrition and Physical Performance from Saint Louis University, and now lives in Colorado.


Scott Stoll, MD, FABPMR

Co-Founder, The Plantrician Project

Dr. Stoll is the co-founder of the Plantrician Project, the International Plant Based Nutrition Healthcare Conference, the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention, and the Regenerative Health Institute, a unique collaborative project with the Rodale Institute that integrates a regenerative vision of human health, agriculture, and the environment. He is a member of the Google FoodLab, and served as a member of the Whole Foods scientific and medical advisory board. Dr. Stoll is the Chairman of the board for the Plantrician Project. 

Every year Dr. Stoll hosts the very popular one-week total health immersions in Naples Florida and helps attendees recover lost health, overcome addictions, and restore emotional balance. In addition to authoring several books and numerous scientific articles, Dr. Stoll has appeared on a wide variety of national shows including the Dr. Oz show, hosting a 2018 PBS special Food as Medicine, and numerous documentaries including Eating You Alive, Wait till its Free, and The Game Changers. As well as being a published author and member of the 1994 Olympic Bobsled Team, he is a highly sought-after international speaker. Dr. Stoll and his family live in Franklin, TN. 

 

Wayne S. Dysinger, MD, MPH, FACLM, FACPM, DipABLM

Medical Director and Chair, Lifestyle Medical

Dr. Dysinger is a lifestyle and primary care physician who currently serves as Medical Director of Lifestyle Medical, a set of new model primary care clinics in southern California that are built around the principals of Lifestyle Medicine. He is also Chair of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine. He is an active faculty at Loma Linda University and consults, teaches and participates in research on Lifestyle Medicine issues around the world. 

Dr. Dysinger was previously Chair, Department of Preventive Medicine, Loma Linda University as well as the Medical Director of the Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP). He is a past President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and has been on the board of the American College of Preventive Medicine and the Association for Prevention Teaching and Research. He has worked in various capacities with the American Medical Association and the American Academy of Family Physicians. 

Dr. Dysinger earned his M.D. degree from Loma Linda University School of Medicine (1986), and his MPH from Loma Linda University School of Public Health (1990). He has previously worked in Guam, Atlanta and Dartmouth. His board certification is in Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine. 

 

Michael Greger, MD, FACLM, DipABLM

President, NutritionFacts.Org

Author, How Not to Die 

 

A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Michael Greger, MD, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition. He has videos on more than 2,000 health topics freely available at NutritionFacts.org, with new videos and articles uploaded almost every day. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, testified before Congress, and was invited as an expert witness in the defense of Oprah Winfrey in the infamous “meat defamation” trial. He is a graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. Three of his recent books— How Not to Die, the How Not to Die Cookbook, and How Not to Diet all became instant New York Times Best Sellers. His latest two books, How to Survive a Pandemic and the How Not to Diet Cookbook, were released in 2020. All proceeds he receives from the sales of his books go to charity.
Credits

The ACPM designates this enduring material for 5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. ACPM is not accredited to offer credit to non-physicians. To determine if activities designated for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ are acceptable for your licensing or certification needs, please contact your credentialing body directly.

Please note: Continuing Education (CE) for allied health professionals is ONLY available for the full 32-hour program and is NOT available for individual modules. 

This curriculum is applicable for Maintenance of Certification Credit (MOC) by the American Board of Preventive Medicine. Additional medical specialty boards are reviewing this new program for MOC credit.

For physicians to receive AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ for this activity, they must achieve a score of 80% or higher on the post-test and complete the evaluation. Completing the post-test and evaluation will provide ABPM MOC credits as well.

Disclaimer

It is the policy of the Rush University Office of Interprofessional continuing Education to ensure that its CE activities are independent, free of commercial bias and beyond the control of persons or organizations with an economic interest in influencing the content of CE. Everyone who is in a position to control the content of an educational activity must disclose all relevant financial relationships with any commercial interest (including but not limited to pharmaceutical companies, biomedical device manufacturers, or other corporations whose products or services are related to the subject matter of the presentation topic) within the preceding 12 months.

Unapproved Uses of Drugs/Devices: In accordance with requirements of the FDA, the audience is advised that information presented in this continuing medical education activity may contain references to unlabeled or unapproved uses of drugs or devices. Please refer to the FDA approved package insert for each drug/device for full prescribing/utilization information.

The course directors, planners and faculty of this activity have stated they have no relevant financial relationships to disclose.

The information contained in this activity represents the views of those who created it and does not necessarily represent the official view or recommendations of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and American College of Preventive Medicine.

Priority recipient of this course

A key concept of the Lifestyle Medicine Core Competencies Program is that it is designed and developed for a broad spectrum of healthcare providers emphasizing the need for a team approach to practicing lifestyle medicine. With this in mind, practitioners from the following professions can benefit from the curriculum:

  • Preventive Medicine Physicians
  • Primary Care Physicians
  • Physician Specialists
  • Psychiatrists/Psychologists
  • Physician Assistants / Nurse Practitioners
  • Registered Nurses
  • Physical / Occupation Therapists
  • Mental Health Counselors
  • Dietitians/ Nutritionists
  • Health Educators
Pricing
  • $195.20 (non-member)
  • $109.25 (student/resident member)
  • $116.90 (ACPM Subscriber)
  • $155.85 (member) 

    This is a self-paced course
Summary
Availability: On-Demand
Expires on Jan 26, 2025
Cost: Non-Member: $195.20
Student/Resident Member: $109.25
ACPM Subscriber: $116.90
Member: $155.85
Credit Offered:
5 CME Credits
Contains: 8 Courses

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