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Professional development and education
General Topic: ARP Interprofessional

14T103: ARP Keynote: Lifestyle Medicine: Improving Quality of Life while Living with a Rheumatic Condition

Tuesday, November 14, 2023
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM PT
Location: Room 6A-B
CE: 1

On Demand In Person Livestreamed

    Speaker(s)

  • Sarah Patterson, MD

    University of California, San Francisco
    Pacifica, CA, United States

    Disclosure(s): No financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose

Lifestyle medicine is becoming an increasingly popular area of medicine, particularly among people with chronic conditions. In this ARP Keynote Talk, we will look at approaches beyond conventional medicine that give patients living with rheumatic diseases tools that can be used synergistically with disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs to improve to improve disease outcomes and reduce symptom severity among people living with rheumatic diseases. The session will focus on the following lifestyle and integrative medicine treatment approaches: nutrition; physical activity; stress resilience and mind-body medicine; botanicals and supplements.

Learning Objectives:

  • Describe lifestyle medicine and integrative medicine, and how they differ from conventional biomedicine.
  • Recommend appropriate lifestyle interventions for patients based on their current circumstances and disease state that will help improve overall quality of life.
  • Define “mindfulness” and identify a mind-body medicine approach that reduced pain and depressive symptoms among people with chronic pain.
  • Understand the current evidence on the use of the Mediterranean diet and the anti-inflammatory diet as adjunctive treatment approaches for rheumatoid arthritis.

Presentations:

  • 7:30 AM – 8:15 AM PT
    ARP Keynote: Lifestyle Medicine: Improving Quality of Life while Living with a Rheumatic Condition

    Speaker: Sarah Patterson, MD – University of California, San Francisco

  • 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM PT
    Q&A