Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar’s Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine attracts members from internationally

Doha, Qatar: More than 60 healthcare professionals from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates, Cameroon, Croatia, the United Kingdom, and Canada attended this yr’s Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine (CLM) programme.

The course was organised by the Institute for Population Health (IPH) at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q).

The CLM is a 60-hour certificates programme that equips healthcare practitioners with the training and competencies to assist within the analysis, prevention, and administration of lifestyle-related continual well being circumstances. The programme emphasises evidence-based practices centered on lifestyle-related interventions, together with common bodily exercise, wholesome vitamin, enough sleep, tobacco cessation, stress administration, and social connections. Additionally, the course allows healthcare practitioners to enhance general high quality of life and affected person outcomes by partaking in significant discussions with sufferers concerning the potential of way of life medication.

WCM-Q professor of inhabitants well being sciences and vice dean for inhabitants well being and way of life medication, and professor of medication on the Center for Global Health, Dr. Ravinder Mamtani mentioned, “Integrating lifestyle medicine practices into mainstream healthcare is essential for advancing the quality and effectiveness of care. The course’s eighth offering reflects a rising urgency to integrate evidence-based lifestyle medicine into healthcare delivery.”

The CLM programme featured a choice of native and worldwide specialists, together with Dr. Mamtani; affiliate professor of scientific inhabitants well being sciences and assistant dean for IPH Dr. Sohaila Cheema; assistant professor of scientific inhabitants well being sciences and assistant director of IPH, Dr. Amit Abraham; psychologist/studying help specialist and wellness counselor at WCM-Q, Sarah Burshan; senior marketing consultant of public well being and illness management, and director of the Tobacco Control Center at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Dr. Ahmad Al Mulla; and professor of medication at WCM-Q and senior marketing consultant in diabetes and endocrinology on the National Obesity Treatment Centre at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), Dr. Shahrad Taheri.

They have been joined by previous president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, founding chair of the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine, and chief medical officer of Blue Zones Health, Dr. Wayne Dysinger; Executive Director of the American and International Boards of Lifestyle Medicine, Stephan Herzog; president and founding father of the Global Positive Health Institute, and assistant professor of the Center for Positive Health Sciences on the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) University of Medical and Health Sciences, Dr. Liana Lianov amongst others.

Dr. Cheema mentioned, “This year’s programme featured an impressive lineup of experts who provided participants with world-class insights and practical strategies to integrate lifestyle medicine in medical practice. We are also proud that the programme reached full capacity, a clear sign of the high demand for, and growing recognition of lifestyle medicine as an essential component of healthcare.”