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LIMCON 2025 – Academic Conference on Lifestyle Medicine

by slslmadmin on July 29, 2025

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

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

💸 Registration Packages

Category	Early Bird	Regular
Members	LKR 4,000	LKR 4,500
Non-Members	LKR 5,000	LKR 6,000
Group of 5 (Early)	LKR 20,000
Group of 5 (Regular)	LKR 25,000
One Day Pass	LKR 2,500 (Members) / LKR 3,500 (Non-Members)
Online Access	LKR 4,000
Foreign Delegates	USD 50