About LMEd

Lifestyle Medicine Education

Healthcare professionals are uniquely positioned to stem the tide of chronic disease through patient education. In order to be effective, our nation’s clinicians must understand the vital roles exercise, nutrition, sleep, social connectivity, health behavior change, tobacco cessation and responsible alcohol use and other lifestyle interventions play in preventing, treating and managing disease. Through training, clinicians will be poised to treat and prevent the current pandemic of chronic disease and reduce unsustainable healthcare costs.

Our Mission

LMEd provides open access, evidence-based Lifestyle Medicine curricular resources to build knowledge, skills and advocacy in clinicians for the prevention and treatment of lifestyle-related chronic disease.

 

Our Vision

All clinical students will receive education in lifestyle medicine to prevent and treat lifestyle-related chronic disease.

A Few words

From Our Founders

Edward M Phillips, MD

Edward M. Phillips, MD, is Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School and is Founder and Director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital.  In his work at the ILM since 2006 he has directed 27 live CME programs attended by over 25,000 clinicians from 115 countries.

In 2015 Phillips joined the VA Boston Healthcare System and now serves as Whole Health Medical Director. He is integrating Whole Health-lifestyle medicine training for students and trainees across the VA as National Whole Health Education Champion for Health Professions Trainees. Additionally, Phillips is a Fellow of American College of Sports Medicine (FACSM) and serves on the executive council that developed the Exercise is Medicine global initiative. He has >90 scientific publications. He served on the Advisory Board of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, the Health Sector and Military Settings Sectors of the United States National Physical Activity Plan and is a founding director of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. 

Phillips is an active clinician, educator and advocate who speaks and consults nationally guiding a broad-based effort to reduce lifestyle-related death, disease, and costs through clinician directed interventions with patients. His medical school, SUNY Buffalo, honored him with its Distinguished Alumni Award for his accomplishments in Lifestyle Medicine. The President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition has recognized Dr. Phillips, the ILM and the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative with its Community Leadership Award. He appears on national media including Good Morning America, ESPN radio, Huffington Post, Slate, and Time Magazine. He co-hosted the NPR Daily Exercise Podcast, WBUR’s Magic Pill which was awarded an Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Innovation and has >2.8 million downloads of the sequel podcast “Food, We Need to Talk.” He is co-author of “Food, We Need to Talk: The science-based, humor-laced last word on eating, diet, and making peace with your body” from St. Martin’s Press, July 2023.

“If medical school curricula are carved in stone then let’s bring some hammers and chisels to make change.

LMEd is poised to continue revolutionizing medical education so that all healthcare professionals can become effective agents supporting their patients healthier lifestyles.”

Dennis Muscato, MS

Dennis Muscato, MS now retired, was a faculty member leading Lifestyle Medicine Strategic Collaborations at Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Lebanon, OR. He has experience developing and fostering collaboration networks successfully in Fortune 100 corporations in Corporate Social Responsibility, E-Government, Industry clusters, and most recently the Co-Director of Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd). The collaboration includes many organizations such as American College of Lifestyle Medicine, American College of Preventative Medicine, Ardmore Institute of Health, Bi-Partisan Policy Center DC, and Converge for Impact. He also led charitable giving through multi-million technology grants with community non-profits, agencies, K-12, community colleges, and universities throughout Oregon. Dennis served as a founding board member of UC Berkeley Haas Center for Responsible Business. Additionally, he developed global partnership projects with international institutions as Business for Social Responsibility, UN Global Compact, Global Reporting Initiative, Socially Responsible Investors and many more collaboration action organizations.

“Life Quote:  Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.   Philippians 4:8

The future is very bright for LMEd at USCSOMG! Any student wanting to get a 5 star first class lifestyle medicine medical education should also consider USCSOMG.
As a leader, LMEd has a vast network of stellar collaborations in this important growing innovative discipline.
If the LMEd mission interests you, this work is helping thousands, if not millions, to lead heathier lives.”

Jennifer Trilk, Ph.D, FACSM, DipACLM

Dr. Trilk is an assistant professor of Physiology and Exercise Science at University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and is committed to incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into all four years of the medical school curriculum and at the Greenville Health System, Greenville, SC.

Dr. Trilk has presented at national and international conferences on exercise physiology and has published several articles that include examining the effects of exercise on lipid metabolism and the cardiovascular system in adults, promoting physical activity in adolescents in school and community, and investigating international policies to increase physical activity in children and youth. She serves as the Chair of the ACSM Medical Education Curriculum Committee. Additionally, Dr. Trilk was an invited panelist for the Bipartisan Policy Center’s, “Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity in Medical School: Training Doctors for Prevention-Oriented Care.”

“LMEd was born out of a small but mighty group of collaborators who had a passion to provide Lifestyle Medicine evidence-based curricula, networking, and support to medical educators. We aspired to teach future doctors how to prevent, treat, and reverse lifestyle-related chronic diseases. LMEd reached over 140 medical and osteopathic schools with that goal. We now are thrilled to offer LMEd to the medical educator community to fulfill these goals.”

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