NUTRITION & LIFESTYLE MEDICINE CONFERENCES
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SAVE THE 2024 DATES: Sat.-Sun. June 1-2, Raleigh NC + virtual. AND Sun. Sept. 29 Virtual Summit. Details later!
Also, a Sat.-Sun. Sept. 2024 Newark NJ + virtual P-POD: dates to be posted around Thanksgiving!
SATURDAY, SEPT. 30, 2023 AT P-POD
Everything below on this page is for PAST year 2023.
This is the PAST Agenda Page for the Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2023, Newark NJ (+ Virtual Option) conference.
(1) If you wish to DOWNLOAD a simple unformatted CHRONOLOGICAL agenda with all Sept.-Oct. details on one page (updated 9/23/23), please use this button:
(2) If you wish to VIEW and browse separately each DAY's (Sat., Sun., Mon.) speakers, seeing faces, names and presentation titles, please use this button:
(3) If you wish to VIEW an ALPHABETICAL list of ALL speakers, with presentation titles and which-day-presenting shown for each, please look right here:
Sharan Abdul-Rahman, MD MBA NCMP (Sat.)
WOMEN'S HEALTH FOCUS #1 -- Major Threats to Women's Health, 3rd Annual Look
Kayli Anderson, MS RDN ACSM-EP DipACLM (Sun.)
WOMEN'S HEALTH FOCUS #3 -- Plant-based Nutrition Basics for Women's Health
Rachel Atcheson, BS (Mon.)
[See special presentation near bottom of list.]
Yami Cazorla-Lancaster, DO MPH MS FAAP DipABLM (Sat.)
Navigating Body Size in Children: A Balanced Approach for Health AND Wellbeing
Deborah Chielli, AGNP-C DipACLM (Mon.)
[See special presentation near bottom of list.]
Lily Correa, MPH RDN DipACLM (Mon.)
Culturally-attuned Nutrition and Lifestyle Guidance vs. Chronic Disease in Urban Clinics
Michelle Dalal, MD FAAP DipABLM (Sun.-Mon.)
The Power of the Pause- A Lifestyle Approach to Teen Wellness
Marsha-Gail Davis, MD MPH DipABLM (Sun.)
HEALing Our Nation
Beth Frates, MD FACLM DipABLM (Sat.)
A Social Connection Prescription: Aren't We Wired To Be Interactive and Supportive?
Mahima Gulati, MD MSc ECNU FACE FACLM DipABLM (Sun.-Mon.)
Type 2 Diabetes Remission with Therapeutic Lifestyle Approaches
Neil Iyengar, MD (Sat.)
New DISTINGUISHED RESEARCHERS SERIES -- Precision Lifestyle Interventions to Improve Cancer Risk and Outcomes
Kamyar Kalantar-Zadeh, MD PhD MPH FACP FASN FAAP FAHA FNKF (Sun.)
Plant-dominant Foods for Diabetes with Kidney Disease
Janese Laster, MD (Sat.)
The Gut Theory of Health through Nutrition
Michelle McMacken, MD FACP DipABLM (Sat.)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER -- Seeds of Change: Growing Plant-based Lifestyle Medicine in NYC's Public Healthcare System
Vesanto Melina, MS RD (Canada) (Sun.-Mon.)
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT HONOREE LECTURE -- Plant Powered Protein for People and the Planet
Gia Merlo, MD MBA DipABLM FACLM (Sat.)
A Year in Review: What's New in Mental/Brain Health Research?
Robert Ostfeld, MD MSc FACC (Sat.)
Confessions of a Reformed Cardiologist: A Plant-based Diet and Your Heart?
Sarina Pasricha, MD MSCR (Sun.)
The Brain-Gut-Microbiome Connection: Simple Strategies to Create a Happy Healthy Gut
Lianna Levine Reisner, MSOD (Mon.)
[See special presentation near bottom of list.]
Steve Sugden, MD MPH MSS FASAM DipABLM (Mon.)
Harm Reduction for Risky Substances
Alison Tierney, MS RDN CD CSO (Sat.-Sun.)
WOMEN'S HEALTH FOCUS #4 -- Breast Cancer Nutrition: Evidence-based Approach Blended with Personal Experience as an Oncology Dietitian and Cancer Thriver
Kim A. Williams, Sr., MD MACC FAHA MASNC FESC (Sun.)
PAST KEYNOTE SPEAKER -- Nutrition vs. Cardiovascular Mortality in the Pandemic Era
Bohdanna Zazulak, DPT MS OCS (Sat.-Sun.)
New DISTINGUISHED RESEARCHERS SERIES -- Integrative Sports Injury Reduction and Rehabilitation: A Frontier of Lifestyle Medicine
[Anderson + Melina + Tierney] (Sun.)
TRIPLE LECTURE AND FULL Q&A -- The Many Whole Plant-based Food Choices That Optimize Essential and Protective Nutrients: A Guide for the Healthcare Team
[Chielli + Dalal + Sugden] (Mon.)
Trying to Cope with Trauma, Addiction and Sleep Disruption through Lifestyle Medicine
[Correa + Gulati + Melina] (Mon.)
P-POD’s Motto Is ‘The FUTURE of Healthcare Begins with NUTRITION’ -- How Can One Person Help Build That Future?
[Davis + Gulati] (Sun.)
Response Dialogue about Pursuing Health Equity in Practice
[Reisner + Atcheson] (Mon.)
DOUBLE PRESENTATION WITH Q&A -- Bringing Practitioners Together in Community and Public Policy Activism
[Tierney + Abdul-Rahman + Zazulak] (Sat.)
WOMEN'S HEALTH FOCUS #2 -- ANNUAL ROUND TABLE: Women's Health Empowerment
[Various contributors] (Sun.)
Oral presentations and Q&A: selected poster abstract preparers.
The THREE images below portray for EACH DAY of our Sept. 30 - Oct. 2, 2023 Newark NJ + virtual option conference, the WHO / WHAT / WHEN: the speakers, their topics, which day happening.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 30, 2023 AT P-POD
SUNDAY, OCT. 1, 2023 AT P-POD
MONDAY, OCT. 2, 2023 AT P-POD
