Healthy People, Healthy Planet Speaker Series: Changing the Paradigm

What’s missing from medicine: The lifestyle medicine solution

Speaker: Dr. Saray Stancic is triple board certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Lifestyle Medicine. For the past 20 years, Dr. Stancic has worked to promote the power of preventive/ lifestyle medicine on a global scale and bring needed change to how we train physicians. 

Learning objectives:

1. Discuss the origins of scientific evidence supporting diet and lifestyle choices influencing the incidence of multiple sclerosis
2. Describe the science of epigenetics, and its possible role in chronic disease outcomes
3. Understand the concepts of pathogenesis and salutogenesis in the current medical education model

The Healthy People, Healthy Planet Speaker Series has been certified for up to 6 CFPC Group Learning credits and 6 Royal College Section 1- Group Learning hours. It provides a Queen’s University certificate of completion for up to 6 hours of professional learning for health professionals.

Healthy People, Healthy Planet Speaker Series: Changing the Paradigm

Animal agriculture and the global impact on environment, food security, and social justice

Speaker: Dr. Tushar Mehta completed medical school and residency at the University of Toronto.  Currently, he practices Emergency Medicine in Brampton, ON and participates in international health projects. 

Learning objectives:

1. Understand the mechanisms by which animal products have a higher ecological impact than high quality plant protein foods
2. Identify parameters of global ecology that are predominantly impacted by animal agriculture
3. Describe how food security is impacted by animal agriculture
4. Discuss the adequacy of plant protein in human nutrition
5. Describe the pandemic and infectious disease implications of animal agriculture
6. Review common misinformation tactics used by animal agriculture industry

The Healthy People, Healthy Planet Speaker Series has been certified for up to 6 CFPC Group Learning credits and 6 Royal College Section 1 - Group Learning hours. It provides a Queen’s University certificate of completion for up to 6 hours of professional learning for health professionals.

Healthy People, Healthy Planet Speaker Series

A primer on sleep for healthcare professionals: A lifestyle medicine approach

Speaker: Param Dedhia, MD, is a curious internal medicine doctor and passionate integrative medicine practitioner. As a sought-after speaker and physician, he translates medical science into our everyday lives. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify the components of healthy sleep
2. Discuss the physiological & psychological role of sleep
3. Explain the bidirectional connection between sleep & health
4. Identify the most common sleep disorders & treatment
5. Review approaches for sleep for the healthcare professional (on-call and shift work) and young families
6. Describe the keys to optimal sleep

This lecture is part of an online series of 6 lectures has been certified for up to 6 CFPC Group Learning credits and 6 Royal College Section 1- Group Learning hours, 1 credit/lecture. It provides a Queen’s University certificate of completion for up to 6 hours of professional learning for health professionals.