Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine

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 and 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.

Lifestyle Medicine Overview

According to the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine is the use of evidence-based lifestyle therapeutic intervention—including a whole-food, plant-predominant eating pattern, regular physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of risky substances, and positive social connection—as a primary modality, delivered by clinicians trained and certified in this specialty, to prevent, treat, and often reverse chronic disease.
 

Faculty Advisors

Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group 2024-2025

President: Westney White
Vice President: Ye Eun (Christine) Lee
Secretary: Emily Novak 
Treasurer: Brian Fish 
Historian:  TBD   
Public Health/Community Services Rep: TBD
Preventive & Lifestyle Opportunities Rep: TBD
Community Outreach Rep: TBD
Social Media Coordinator: TBD
Curriculum Rep: Forrest Sheperd
MS4 Rep: Matthew Hutchinson
MS3 Rep: Megan Ervin
MS2 Rep: TBD
MS1 Rep: TBD

Faculty Sponsor: Karen R. Studer, MD

Preventive and Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group Constitution

Obesity Medicine Interest Group

Faculty Advisor: Dr. Peter Bastian 

Obesity Medicine Interest Group Constitution

Clinical Informatics and Analytics Interest Group 

Clinical Informatics and Analytics Interest Group (CIA-IG) Constitution