MHI Community Connections - Stopping Chronic Disease Where It Starts: Driving Lifestyle Change Through Primary Care

Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 7:15 AM - 10:00 AM, Vue 17, St. Louis, MO

How many times has a patient in your office wanted to try lifestyle change before medication? Do you have the resources (time, community contacts, etc.) to support the patient in adopting healthy lifestyle behaviors? So much of chronic care management is dependent upon nutrition, physical activity, mental well-being, and other lifestyle factors. Are patients and employees well-equipped to make lasting changes that can impact their health before turning to medications and treatments that are so often at their easy disposal? 

These questions are key to understanding how primary care clinicians serve as a driver of lifestyle behavior change and how employers can partner with them to increase employee buy-in and motivation to use lifestyle as a first line of defense for chronic disease. Join us on December 4th as Dr. Padmaja Patel, President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and long time primary care physician, shares her experience delivering innovative care models that integrate lifestyle medicine with value-based primary care, and details what it takes from clinicians, purchasers, and health plans in order to cultivate a primary care system that supports and promotes healthy patient lives.

Community Connections is an event series designed to strengthen shared knowledge and understanding across health care stakeholder groups and advance primary care in the St. Louis region. A common table for local practicing clinicians, health care purchasers, health plans, medical group and other community leaders, Community Connections is an opportunity to share experiences, perspectives, and ideas for strengthening primary care. 

1. Learner will acknowledge that the principles of lifestyle medicine, when incorporated into patient care, lead to increased satisfaction for both the clinician and the patient, as well as improved health outcomes.
2. Learner will receive the method and means to administer patient care with a greater focus on the principles of lifestyle medicine.
3. Learner will be able to apply strategies to implement lifestyle medicine principles into their own practice.
4. Learner will be equipped to influence the community attitude and approach to the practice of lifestyle medicine in primary care, using the levers afforded to them in their role within the health care system.
5. Learner will listen and respond to the priorities, perspectives, and challenges from other learners and community members regarding the implementation of lifestyle medicine in primary care to gain greater shared understanding of local needs.

How can we make St. Louis a national leader in primary care?

The Midwest Health Initiative is convening local practicing clinicians, health care purchasers, health plans, medical group, and other community leaders to learn together and discuss ways to advance primary care in St. Louis.  Community Connections is an event series designed for the region’s health care stakeholders to build relationships and exchange perspectives, while amplifying the voice of primary care clinicians to community leaders. Each event focuses on a timely topic related to primary care where attendees learn from an expert in the field and hear perspectives from community members.

The December 4th event, Stopping Chronic Disease Where It Starts, will focus on the importance of primary care in driving healthy lifestyle change to fight chronic disease. Do clinicians have the resources to support patients in adopting healthy behaviors, and are patients well-equipped to make lasting changes to improve their health? Dr. Padmaja Patel, President of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and longtime primary care physician, will keynote this event and share her experience integrating lifestyle medicine into value-based primary care. Join us as we uncover how physicians, employers, health systems, and health plans can work together to advance support for more successful and widespread lifestyle medicine in primary care!
Learn more at www.midwesthealthinitiative.org/community-connections-details

Registration link: https://www.midwesthealthinitiative.org/event-details/mhi-community-connections-december-4th-2024

Title: Stopping Chronic Disease Where It Starts: Driving Lifestyle Change Through Primary Care
Date: Wednesday, December 4, 2024, 7:30 AM – 10:00 AM
Location: Vue 17 Event Center, 1034 S Brentwood Blvd 17th Floor, Richmond Heights, MO 63117

Accreditation 
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of Saint Louis University School of Medicine and Midwest Health Initiative.  Saint Louis University School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation
Saint Louis University School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Saint Louis University School of Medicine will provide Other learner certificates (APPs, nurses, and other types of learners).  The certificate will state that the activity was designated for 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Follow your board's requirements for reciprocal CE credits.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

Saint Louis University School of Medicine adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.