Lifestyle Medicine 2018 Awards: ASLM Fellowship and Scientific Abstracts

We are delighted to announce some of the next cohort of dedicated Lifestyle Medicine professionals who were awarded the ASLM Fellowship at Lifestyle Medicine 2018, during the Sunday afternoon Plenary.

Pictured from left: ASLM President, Dr Sam Manger, and Fellowship awardees:

Mark Donohoe (GP)
Desre Arnold (Registered Nurse)
Phillip Rodionoff (GP)
Jille Burns (Nurse Practitioner)
Emmanuel Varipatis (GP)
Tanja McLeish (Psychotherapist)
Joanna McMillan (Dietitian)
Sally Price (GP)
Andrew Morris (GP)
Keren Witcombe (GP)
Simon Matthews (Psychologist)
Graeme Stringer (Dentist)
Ross Grant (Researcher)

Are you a GP, specialist, public health professional, allied health practitioner, health researcher or academic?

Do you have education or training in nutrition, exercise science, behaviour change, chronic disease management, health policy, or other experience in Lifestyle Medicine?

The ASLM Fellowship is the first fully multidisciplinary fellowship in Australasia, currently in the grandparenting period, which will end on 30th June 2019 unless extended by the Board. During the grand-parenting period, recognition of prior learning (RPL) provisions are more generous.

You can find out more about the ASLM Fellowship here.

We also extend our congratulations to the recipients of the Best Poster and Best Oral Presentation in the scientific stream at Lifestyle Medicine 2018.

Best Oral Presentation was awarded to Ann-Katrin Kraeuter for her work, “Modification of the gut microbiome using ketogenic diet in an acute NMDA-receptors antagonist model of schizophrenia”, and Best Poster Presentation was awarded to James Ingram for his work, “Investigating a 5-day intensive mindfulness retreat for adolescents: A mixed methods approach“.

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Registrations for Lifestyle Medicine 2019 are now open! Find out more and register here.

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the unceded lands and waters where we live and work. We celebrate their ongoing connection to land, sea and culture and pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging. As a bi-national (or Australasian) society, we also acknowledge ngā iwi Māori as the Tangata Whenua (or people of the land) of Aotearoa. We are committed to upholding the principles of the Te Tiriti o Waitangi, building our relationship with Māori, and working together to improve the health of all First Nations peoples.