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ACLM’s Presidents’ Panel: Celebrate. Engage. Ignite. Reflecting on the Past 20 Years and Looking Ahead to the Future of Lifestyle Medicine

Tuesday, October 29, 2024
8:00 PM – 9:15 PM ET
Location: Gatlin B/C
Earn 1 CME | 1 CNE/CE | 1 CPE
ACLM’s founding was sparked by the recognition that no other field of medicine represented evidence-based, therapeutic lifestyle intervention to treat, reverse, and prevent disease—the degenerative chronic and select autoimmune disease that was and is crippling lives and driving unsustainable levels of healthcare spending. It’s acknowledged that 80% or more of all healthcare spending pays for the treatment of conditions rooted in unhealthful lifestyle behaviors. This is good news, as it means we can take action before it’s too late, which is exactly what ACLM’s presidents and other leaders have done since ACLM’s inception. ACLM’s foremost priority has been to fill the gaping void of lifestyle medicine in medical education, doing so across the entire continuum, from bachelor, master, and doctoral programs, to UME, GME, CME, and MOC. Certification in the field debuted in 2017, with the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine certifying MDs and DOs, and ACLM certifying eligible non-physicians. The International Board of Lifestyle Medicine is the certification body outside the U.S. Globally, nearly 7,000 in 75 countries have become certified in the field. This is evidence that addressing the looming pandemic of noncommunicable, chronic disease is needed worldwide. Lifestyle medicine’s root cause treatment strives for health restoration, as opposed to disease management. The Quintuple Aim is achieved with lifestyle medicine. Lifestyle medicine reignites the passion for why most went into medicine: to be true healers. Lifestyle medicine infuses ‘health’ back into healthcare. Lifestyle medicine delivers high-quality, high-value, patient-centered, whole-person care. ACLM’s priorities are education, health equity, advocacy, practice advancement, research and innovation, super-serving its purpose-, passion-driven members who are part of the galvanized force for change that the College represents. More than a medical professional association, ACLM is a transformation catalyst. Moderated by ACLM’s Executive Director, Susan Benigas, ACLM’s presidents are showcased in this informal panel discussion, with interactive audience Q&A, as we celebrate, engage and ignite!

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the impetus for the founding of ACLM and why this is more relevant today than ever before.
  • Review the seminal milestones throughout ACLM’s first two decades.
  • Describe how lifestyle medicine addresses the root cause of chronic disease and improves patient activation, engagement, and health outcomes.
  • Recognize how lifestyle medicine integrates interprofessional team-based care models that are financially viable in both fee-for-service and value-based payment models to achieve the Quintuple Aim of healthcare.
  • Describe how lifestyle medicine improves professional satisfaction and reduces the risk of burnout as a transformed and sustainable system of healthcare delivery.