Brain & Biome
Held on Friday 17 August 2018 at the Brisbane Sofitel
Featuring Dr Joanna McMillan, as seen on ABC Catalyst’s ‘Gut Revolution’, and seven leading presenters in neuroscience, psychoneuroendocrinology, nutrigenomics, positive psychology and microbiology. This special evening featured lightning Ted-style talks, panel discussion and Q&A with the audience.
See you in Auckland!
Super early bird registrations are now open for Lifestyle Medicine 2019 in Auckland!
Lifestyle Medicine 2019 will feature ‘Innovation & Intervention, Environment & Equity’ as the overarching theme.
Want to know what to expect? Watch the video to see a Lifestyle Medicine conference in action. And check out the previous conference program and extraordinary line-up of speakers!
We look forward to seeing you in Auckland in June!
Be part of a bigger change
The Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM) is a multidisciplinary society working towards improved prevention, management, and treatment of chronic, complex and lifestyle-related conditions. ‘Lifestyle-related’ includes environmental, societal, behavioural and other factors. Lifestyle Medicine is a rapidly growing discipline with numerous colleges and societies around the world.
ASLM members include GPs and medical specialists, allied health practitioners, public health physicians, educators, and researchers. In practical terms, Lifestyle Medicine involves a range of professionals working together to address physical inactivity, poor diet or nutrition, smoking, alcohol overconsumption, chronic stress, anxiety, poor or inadequate sleep, social isolation, loss of culture and identity, exposures to toxins, and other influences of society and environment.
Be part of a bigger change and join the Lifestyle Medicine movement. You’ll feel at home in our energetic, resourceful and creative multidisciplinary society.
Stay in the loop
Board certification 2019 open
ASLM is delighted to announce our next board certification exam will be held on Monday 10 June, immediately following Lifestyle Medicine 2019 (7-9 June) in Auckland, New Zealand. Read more about Certification.
Board certification is also a significant step towards Fellowship of the society (FASLM). The ASLM Fellowship is the first fully multidisciplinary fellowship in Australasia, open to all full members of the society, eg: medical practitioners, dietitians, exercise physiologists, psychologists, educators, researchers/scientists and public health professionals. More about the Fellowship.
Or visit our Education page for an overview of continuing professional development and educational pathways in Lifestyle Medicine.
Shared Medical Appointments
Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs), also called ‘Group Visits’, are a revolutionary way of managing chronic disease in primary care. They are “A series of consecutive individual medical consultations in a supportive group setting where all can listen, interact, and learn.” A SMA is both an individual consultation and a group education session.
SMAs involve a doctor, a facilitator (usually an allied health professional) who directs the 60 to 90 minute session and manages group dynamics, and 6 to 12 patients at a time. If you’re frustrated with the limitations of 1:1 consulting, SMAs are for you – and for your patients.
Become a Registered SMA Facilitator by attending a one day training course and followup assessment. ASLM provides an ongoing support structure for GPs and Facilitators trained in the SMA protocol.
Free online tools
DAB-Q
The Diet, Activity and Behaviour Questionnaire (DAB-Q) is a battery of five short on-line questionnaires to help determine the best weight loss strategies for you.
Ideal weight calculator
Overcome the problems of BMI with a body fat and weight score using this unique formula.
Shared Medical Appointments (SMA) workshop
A quantum leap forward in chronic disease management and treatment
Learn how to conduct Shared Medical Appointments in your practice and optionally, complete followup assessment and peer review to become an ASLM Certified SMA Facilitator by participating in this 6 hour training, either at a scheduled face-to-face workshop, online (recorded videos) or live webinar series. Designed for GPs, practice nurses and allied health practitioners, CPD points may be available from the organisations shown (Category 1 face-to-face only) or with your certificate of completion.
An eating plan for people & planet
A guide for improving health and the environment in the modern world based on recent scientific findings relating to the body’s evolved reaction to certain foods.
An evening with Dr David Katz
Lifestyle, environment and chronic disease: a confluence of causes
A memorable evening was held on 11 August 2016 with Dr David Katz (President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine), Anja Taylor (Catalyst, ABC TV), Prof Stephen Simpson (Academic Director, Charles Perkins Centre), Dr Joanna McMillan (Get Lean) and Prof Garry Egger (Southern Cross University).
Co-hosted by the Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine and the Charles Perkins Centre, University of Sydney.
Lifestyle Medicine
Lifestyle Medicine bridges the gap between health promotion and conventional medicine and promotes a multidisciplinary, multi-system approach. As a discipline, Lifestyle Medicine sits at the intersection of medicine, healthcare and health policy with behavioural, social, environmental, socioeconomic, political and other factors impacting on health and wellbeing.
About ASLM
ASLM advocates for Lifestyle Medicine and provides education, training and professional development for doctors, allied health practitioners, public health professionals, researchers and educators in Lifestyle Medicine. Similarly, ASLM has a mission to educate and inform members of the public how to prevent and better manage and treat chronic and lifestyle-related conditions.
Become a member
We warmly invite you to be part of an energetic, resourceful and creative multidisciplinary society advancing Lifestyle Medicine. Get access to the latest information and resources, and participate in an active, supportive community of health professionals focused on improving the health and wellbeing of Australians and New Zealanders.
IMgateway for ASLM members
ASLM is proud to announce UnityHealth as a Society partner. As a result of this partnership, ASLM members currently receive complimentary access to IMgateway, a subscription database service valued at $300 p.a.
IMgateway is the leading Australian, integrative medicine database of over 700 monographs, featuring Australia’s most comprehensive interactions checker containing traffic light reports on over 1,000 herb-drug, supplement-drug, and food-drug interactions (in partnership with the School of Pharmacy, University of Sydney), practitioner monographs, patient information sheets and information on the leading practitioner only products.
Thanks to UnityHealth for supporting Lifestyle Medicine.
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