Preventive Medicine Overview
A preventive medicine specialist focuses on the health of individuals and defined populations to protect, promote, and maintain health and well-being as well as to prevent disease, disability, and premature death. A preventive medicine physician may be a specialist in general preventive medicine, public health, occupational medicine, or aerospace medicine.1
1 The American Board of Medical Specialties. Guide to Physician Specialties. Evanston, IL: American Board of Medical Specialties; February 2008.
Preventive Medicine Faculty Advisors
| Haitham Juma | HJuma@llu.edu |
| Akbar Sharip | ASharip@llu.edu |
Lifestyle Medicine and Preventive Medicine Interest Group
President: Meena Kim Dopp
Vice President: Joellyn Sheehy
Social Vice President:
Secretary: Jonathan Goorhuis
Treasurer:
Public Relations:
4th Year Rep: Niiang Mung
3rd Year Rep:
2nd Year Rep: Adwoa Wiafe
1st Year Rep:
Lifestyle and Preventive Medicine Faculty Advisors
| Brenda Rea | brea@llu.edu |
| April Wilson | aewilson@llu.edu |