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ACPM SPEARHEADS PUBLICATION OF LIFESTYLE MEDICINE
COMPETENCIES
The work of an ACPM-led
blue ribbon panel to define lifestyle medicine competencies for physicians has
been released in the July 14 issue of JAMA. Published as part of a
commentary authored by ACPM General Preventive Medicine Regent Liana Lianov,
MD, MPH, FACPM and ACPM President Mark Johnson, MD, MPH, FACPM, the
milestone represents the culmination of a six-month effort by the panel to
define a set of key skills, knowledge and attitudes for physician competence in
lifestyle medicine. Lifestyle medicine aims to address the primary behavioral
causes of death in the United States—including smoking, poor diet and inadequate
physical activity—through clinical lifestyle interventions.
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ACPM
PARTICIPATES IN WELLNESS BRIEFING ON CAPITOL HILL
ACPM
co-hosted and participated in a Capitol Hill briefing organized by the DMAA: The
Care Continuum Alliance, titled Medicare’s New Wellness and Personalized
Prevention Plan Benefits, to discuss groundbreaking new wellness and
prevention benefits for Medicare beneficiaries in the health care reform law,
the Affordable Care Act. ACPM’s associate executive director for policy and
government affairs, Paul Bonta, was joined by Ron Loeppke, MD, MPH, FACPM,
from U.S. Preventive Medicine as the two panelists at the briefing.
