📣 Save the Date: LIMCON 2025 – Academic Conference on Lifestyle Medicine

📍 Venue: UCFM Tower, Colombo 08
📅 Dates: 20-21 September, 2025

Join us at LIMCON 2025, the signature academic conference organized by the Sri Lankan Society of Lifestyle Medicine (SLSLM). This two-day event will bring together global and local experts to discuss innovative, evidence-based strategies in Lifestyle Medicine — all in one place.

🌟 Theme:

Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine: Transforming Health Across the Lifespan

🧠 🫀 📈 Full Plenary Panel Overview:

🟦 Day 1 – 20th September

🔹 Plenary Session 1: Integrating Lifestyle Medicine to Healthcare – Local, Regional & Global Insights

  • 🗣️ Dr. Samandika Saparamadu (SL)
    The burden of non-communicable diseases in Sri Lanka and the promise of the LMHC model: Current trends and challenges

  • 🗣️ Dr. Sarathchandra Kumarawansha (SL)
    From Policy to Practice: Advancing Lifestyle Interventions Through Sri Lanka’s Primary Healthcare System

  • 🗣️ Dr. Sheela Nambiar (IND)
    Success stories of Lifestyle Medicine implementation in South Asia

  • 🗣️ Dr. Amy Mechley (US)
    Integrating Lifestyle Medicine into Primary Care Practice

🔹 Plenary Session 2: Evolving Exercise Science – Technology, Adherence & Impact Across Lifespan

  • 🗣️ Dr. Surantha Perera (SL)
    Importance of movement – Building the Foundations of Health in Childhood

  • 🗣️ Dr. Sithira Senevirathne (SL)
    Exercise for falls prevention

  • 🗣️ Dr. Zainab Wasim (UK)
    Prescribing Movement: The Role of Exercise in Cancer Therapy and Recovery

  • 🗣️ Prof. Chaturanga Ranasinghe (SL)
    Exercise Adherence in Remote/Hybrid Work Environments

🔹 Plenary Session 3: Integrative Nutrition – Redefining Science, Psychology & Sustainability

  • 🗣️ Prof Charles Spence (UK)
    Gastrophysics: the new science of eating

  • 🗣️ Dr. Renuka Jayathissa (SL)
    Nutrition for Metabolic Health Optimization: Beyond weight management

  • 🗣️ Dr. Silesh Rao (US)
    Plant-Based Diets and Climate Change: Intersection of nutrition and environmental sustainability

  • 🗣️ Dr. Colin Zhu (US)
    Culinary Medicine – The Clinician’s Role in Culinary Literacy

  • 🗣️ Ms. Jacinda Shapiro (US)
    Unlocking the evidence for Diabetes

🔹 Plenary Session 4: Resetting the Clock – Circadian Medicine in Practice

  • 🗣️ Dr. Ruwanthi Jayasekera (SL)
    Coping with shift work: How to enhance healthy sleep

  • 🗣️ Dr. Ruwan Amaratunga (CAN)
    Sleep-Wake misalignment: Circadian rhythm disorders and jet lag

  • 🗣️ Dr. Hasna Jalou (US)
    Obstructive Sleep Apnoea

🟦 Day 2 – 21st September

🔹 Plenary Session 5: Breaking the Cycle – Substance Use & Behavioural Addictions

  • 🗣️ Prof. Miyuru Chandradasa (SL)
    Understanding dopamine and the brain in digital addiction: How it works and how we can treat it

  • 🗣️ Dr. Sajeeva Ranaweera (SL)
    Vapes: The toxic truth

  • 🗣️ Prof. Diyanath Samarasinghe (SL)
    Strategies to terminate substance use habits

🔹 Plenary Session 6: From Isolation to Integration – Social Solutions for Health Resilience

  • 🗣️ Dr. Liana Lianov (US)
    Lifestyle Medicine and Spirituality

  • 🗣️ Dr. Kumanga Andrahennadi (SL)
    Mindfulness

  • 🗣️ Dr. Amy Mechley (US)
    Preventing burnout in a strained health system

  • 🗣️ Dr. Darren Morton (AUS)
    The Loneliness Epidemic

🔹 Plenary Session 7: Community, Connection & Conscious Care – Whole-Person Health

  • 🗣️ Mr. Arshad Ameer (SL)
    Technology-Enabled Social Support Networks for Chronic Disease Management

  • 🗣️ Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne (SL)
    Social Prescribing: Connecting Patients to Community Resources

  • 🗣️ Prof. Nalika Gunawardena (SL)
    Chronic Disease Burden and WHO Roadmap to Better Health

  • 🗣️ The SLSLM Team (SL)
    Success stories in lifestyle medicine

🔹 Plenary Session 8: Lifestyle Medicine in Clinical Practice

  • 🗣️ Dr. Tashiya Mirando (Singapore)
    From Hormones to Habits: Integrating Lifestyle Medicine in Women’s Health Across the Lifespan

  • 🗣️ Dr. Gotabhaya Ranasinghe (SL)
    Lifestyle Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease

  • 🗣️ Dr. Simon Matthews (Spain)
    Health Coaching in Clinical Practice

📞 Contact Us

📧 Email: info@slslm.org.lk
📞 Phone: +94 75 769 7370

Come learn, connect, and be inspired at LIMCON 2025 — where the future of healthcare is shaped through lifestyle.