RLMI News and Events
RLMI wins prestigious award in Healthcare Innovation for 15-Day Whole-Food Plant-Based Jumpstart
RLMI wins the 2023 Rochester Business Journal (RBJ) Healthcare Innovation award for its ACLM certified program, the 15-Day Whole-Food Plant-Based Jumpstart.
Rochester Business Journal, a leading business publication in Rochester, NY, annually recognizes and awards outstanding healthcare organizations for their professional accomplishments, community leadership, innovation, and mentoring.
RLMI’s Jumpstart is a 2023 honoree and will be honored at an awards ceremony in Downtown Rochester on Tuesday, March 28, 2023.
Read, view or download the Press Release about the 2023 Rochester Business Journal (RBJ) Healthcare Innovation award to RLMI for its innovative Jumpstart program.
Read the peer reviewed study here on the Jumpstart program.
Learn about Jumpstart and Jumpstart free Information sessions, held monthly.
Lifestyle as Medicine Lecture: Prevention, Treatment, and Reversal of Heart Disease with Dr. Akil Taher
On Thursday, February 23, 2023, Dr. Akil Taher, a resurgent physician, a septuagenarian athlete, and an open-heart surgery survivor, shared his story of heart disease and open heart surgery. His story is not only fascinating, but he shares why it’s important to know how to prevent, treat and reverse heart disease.
Many physicians will tell you the only solution is surgery, however, if you knew there was another option that could change everything, would you listen? During this presentation, Dr. Taher will share facts that:
- Can improve your overall health and your heart health without the pain of your chest being cracked open for open heart surgery.
- Will give you the information you need that can save your wife from becoming a widow, or your husband becoming a widower.
Don’t fret. If you missed this presentation threaded with the stories, wisdom, and advice from Dr. Taher, a strong proponent of living a whole food, plant-based diet and lifestyle, and author., you can watch it here! Please share it and subscribe to RLMI’s YouTube channel for more great lifestyle medicine, health and plant based focused content.
Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds with Will Bulsiewicz, MD
On February 21, 2023, RLMI-IHA Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds patient case, The Liver: A Man With Cirrhosis Not Ready to Die, was presented by Dr. Zach Burns, with guest panelist Dr. Will Bulsiewicz. Other panel members included Kerry Graff, MD and Melissa Sundermann, DO. Dr. Ted Barnett moderated and case coordinator was Dr. Susan Friedman.
Learn from Lifestyle Medicine experts how they treat a complex patient case of a 63-year-old male construction worker with alcohol use disorder and a diagnosis of hepatic cirrhosis. His recovery has been complicated by occupational trauma, variceal hemorrhage, and a brief relapse with alcohol requiring hospitalization.
Please send the video link to your medical professional colleagues so they can learn how Lifestyle Medicine practitioners and their patients address the root cause of disease more effectively than using pills and complicated, expensive procedures.
Watch the recorded video below, share it, and subscribe to RLMI’s YouTube channel for more great lifestyle medicine, health and plant based focused content.
Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds with Michael Greger
On January 17, 2023, RLMI-IHA Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds patient case “Reversal of hypertriglyceridemia and prediabetes: A case presentation” was presented by Dr. Kristi Artz, with guest panelist Dr. Michael Greger. Other panel members included Robert Breakey, MD and Melissa Sundermann, DO. Dr. Ted Barnett moderated and case coordinator was Dr. Susan Friedman.
Learn from Lifestyle Medicine experts how they treat a complex patient case. This session also includes an inspiring conversation with the patient and her perspective on the choices she made and the results achieved from her treatment. Please send the video link to your medical professional colleagues so they can learn how Lifestyle Medicine practitioners and their patients address the root cause of disease more effectively than using pills and complicated, expensive procedures.
Watch the recorded video below, share it, and subscribe to RLMI’s YouTube channel for more great lifestyle medicine, health and plant based focused content.
Lifestyle as Medicine Lecture: Eat Up, Slim Down, Get Healthy! with Global Icon Chef AJ
On Tuesday, January 10, 2023, Chef AJ presented “Eat Up, Slim Down, Get Healthy!” to a vast international audience. AJ explained how to eat delicious healthy food that is filling yet optimal for weight loss. This is a must see for anyone that wants to improve their health, lose weight, or both! Chef AJ’s calorie density chart that is seen in the video can be downloaded here.
RLMI’s 15-Day Whole-Food Plant-Based program aligns with Chef AJ’s recommendations.
Learn more, sign up for a free information session, and register for one of the monthly programs here: Events | Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute
Watch the recorded video below, share it, and subscribe to RLMI’s YouTube channel for more great lifestyle medicine, health and plant based focused content.
Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds with Dr. Monica Aggarwal
Dr. Fabiola Flores Monsivais presented a patient case titled “A medical student’s journey: Redefining the path to health.”
Hear about a 24-year-old fourth-year medical student who suffered from multiple ailments for years while being treated using conventional medicine and how that all changed when taking a culinary class and learning about the power of diet.
The expert medical panel consisted of guest panelist Monica Aggarwal, MD, Bob Breakey, MD, and Melissa Sundermann, DO. The event was moderated by Ted Barnett, MD, FACLM and the case coordinator was Susan Friedman, MD, MPH, FACLM.
Fabiola Flores Monsivais, MD, DipABLM, is board-certified in Internal Medicine in Mexico and Lifestyle Medicine, a full-time professor at the Health Sciences School at Universidad Autonoma. Along with her chef and surgeon husband, she started a Culinary Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine elective course to teach medical and nursing students how to cook plant-based foods and prescribe the six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine. Their teaching kitchen is the first in Mexico and Latin America.
Watch below and view our calendar for more free lifestyle medicine events.
Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds with Neal Barnard
On September 13, 2022, Dr. Kerry Graff presented We’re Just Getting Started — A Tale of Two Patients with guest panelist Neal Barnard, MD.
Dr. Graff discusses while improving diet quality is typically the most powerful lifestyle intervention to reverse chronic disease, identifying and adequately addressing what might hamper a patient’s ability to make and sustain healthy dietary changes is critical for success. Dr. Graff will review two initial lifestyle medicine consultations that, while on the surface appeared quite similar, had wildly different initial lifestyle medicine action plans.
Other panel members included Robert Breakey, MD and Melissa Sundermann, DO. Dr. Ted Barnett moderated and case coordinator was Dr. Susan Friedman.
Watch below and visit RLMI’s calendar here for more free LM events.
Lifestyle as Medicine Lecture: My 10-year health journey with Paul Chatlin, founder, PBNSG
On November 1, 2022, Paul Chatlin discusses how a whole-food plant-based diet saved his heart health and the role of genetics in one’s health.
In his lecture, he includes his latest chapter of having to face a new challenge. Paul discusses how his health changed the trajectory of his life’s work – the founding of the non-profit Plant Based Nutrition Support Group (PBNSG) and the services they provide to help others.
Paul Chatlin’s journey to health is inspirational. Watch below and check our calendar here to view more free Lifestyle as Medicine Lectures.
Lifestyle as Medicine Lecture: The Essential Role of Sleep in Promoting Well-Being with Dr. Rao
Dr. Jyothi Rao discusses how sleep is needed to prevent chronic illness and provides tips to promote restorative sleep. This informative and practical presentation on sleep is fundamental to understanding how to achieve optimal health.
How to Keep a Kidney Transplant with Tom Campbell, MD
October 11th, 2022: Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds “How to Keep a Kidney Transplant – Integrating Obesity Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine for Optimal Treatment Outcomes”! We discuss a complex patient case presented by Deepa Sannidhi MD, DipABLM, DipABOM and with guest panelist Tom Campbell, MD, DipABOM
