Preventive Medicine 2020 Online brought together leaders from medicine and public health to examine the most pressing issues in healthcare today, and how the Nation’s healthcare system can be transformed around prevention. This virtual meeting offered high-quality medical education programming, networking opportunities, and the recognition of the best in the profession.

The meeting was organized around critical topics including innovations in community health, public health policy, evidence and practice, health systems transformation and lifestyle medicine. Each meeting day was themed around two critical topics, with distinct sessions addressing shared themes in the practice of prevention.

 

Preventive Medicine 2020 Online focused on big, bold, upstream ideas and the people, places, and programs that are making them a reality today. Transformation is only possible with a clear vision, audacious goals, an innovative mindset, and the will to implement new policy and practice, honestly evaluate change, and engage stakeholders at every level.

Serving populations across the lifespan – with the use of virtual-coaching health promotion programs for chronic conditions and preventative approaches through a digital-first application whereby the Care Team runs alongside. Developing and delivering care pathways based on essential health principles that are able to reach people on an individual level, with lasting favorable outcomes – at the global, national, state, and community levels. The emphasis is placed on enhanced engagement for healthy lifestyle behavior change as well as addressing social determinants of health, based on an original and groundbreaking theory of change, best practices and current trends using personality segmentation.

• Apply key components to incorporate innovative engagement using health behavior theory frameworks.
• Describe best practices to implement innovative engagement in current settings.
• Understand available programs using innovative engagement based on unique needs.
• Discuss current trends to measure efficacy outcomes of programs using Innovative Engagement.

Dr. Wilder Rucker

Dr. Eseosa Asemota

Tim Aumueller, MBA

Brittany Kowalski, MS, ATC, NBC-HWC

Dr. Jaime L. Pula, PhD, RDN