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Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into General Practice

by slslmadmin on May 21, 2023


Get registered for the weekend webinar on “Incorporating Lifestyle Medicine into General Practice” by Dr. Mechelle Palma. This webinar is organised by the College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka together with the Sri Lankan Society of Lifestyle Medicine and moderated by Dr. Dineshani Hettiarachchi. Please join us via Zoom on Sunday, May 21, 2023, at 9.00 PM (GMT+5:30). Webinar Registration Link: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/tZIvc…

Speaker:

Dr. Mechelle Acero Palma is a family medicine physician and an associate professor at the Adventist University of the Philippines College of Health and Medicine. She is the president of the Philippine College of Lifestyle Medicine (PCLM) and the founder of Culinary Medicine Asia. She is also one of the authors of the Lifestyle Medicine Competencies for the foundational and intensivist category and an active member of the PAFP Clinical Practice Guideline team.

As one of the pioneering certified lifestyle medicine physicians, Dr. Palma led the development of the Competency Course and Specialty Board Examination in the Philippines. She also led PCLM’s accreditation as an Affiliate Specialty Society of the Philippine Medical Association under the division of the Philippine Academy of Family Physicians.