While the positive ripple effect of the ANS is still being felt (and – yes the video package is just about to be released, so prepare for another big ripple!!), there is another inaugural education event trailing hot on its heels! Hopefully you’ve already heard about the conference being run by the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine in Melbourne in a few weeks. The subtitle of this conference is, ‘It’s time for change: reframing medicine, clinical practice and health policy’ and offers an extraordinary eclectic mix of speakers and topics including:
- Meaninglessness, alienation and loss of culture and identity: Now measurable determinants of chronic disease. A/Prof John Stevens
- Where does obesity meet under-nutrition and climate change and are there joint solutions? Prof Boyd Swinburn
- Making Lifestyle Medicine work clinically & financially: Current Models. Wayne Dysinger
- Oral-Systemic Medicine: the importance of the mouth in Lifestyle Medicine. Dr Christine May
- Shifting the microbiome for mental health: case studies. Dr Sally Price
With over 40 speakers from researchers to clinicians, lots of big names and our own Jason Hawrelak and Sally Mathrick representing the naturopathic contingency, it should make for a fascinating melting pot of professions, perspectives and prescriptions!
Hey and while you’re checking out the ASLM and their website – check out some of the interesting resources they have on there like the DAB-Q etc. You know I love a good screening tool and this one is aimed at very much the general public but has some interesting questions in there especially in the behaviour section. Take a look.
You better be quick if you haven’t got a ticket yet and you want to attend – early bird closes this Sunday! And for those of you that can’t make it I promise I’ll share my thoughts and experiences of the conference and what this new society might be able to offer us all, afterwards. Hope to see you there! 🙂