Lifestyle Matters: Key Strategies to Improve Health for those with Chronic Conditions
Two leading experts discuss strategies beyond conventional medicine to help people with chronic conditions heal by focusing on their lifestyle and health behaviors.
Webinar attendees will hear from Wayne Jonas, MD, who will present various dimensions of integrative health that can be used in treating chronic diseases and for overall health and well-being. Attendees will also hear from Katie Adamson, who will discuss current community integrated health efforts YMCA have implemented to strengthen the linkages between traditional healthcare and community-based prevention strategies in order to help individuals prevent, delay, reverse or live better lives while managing a chronic condition(s).
Vice President of Health Partnerships and Policy, YMCA of the USA
Katie Adamson currently serves as the Vice President of Health Partnerships and Policy for YMCA of the USA, the national resource office for the nation’s 2700 YMCAs. She provides guidance and consultation on healthy living policy, partnership and program strategies at the national level and for local Ys and the state alliances of YMCAs. She helps advance healthy living legislative and advocacy strategies at the state and federal level, including the drafting and implementation of legislative initiatives and accompanying policy documents; and, assisting with congressional, corporate and health partnerships. Katie has over 27 years of experience in health policy, partnership development and strategic planning in the non-profit, private and government sectors.
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Wayne Jonas, MD, is a widely published investigator, practicing family physician, and professor of medicine at Georgetown University and at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences. He is also a retired lieutenant colonel in the Medical Corps of the United States Army. Dr. Jonas was the director of the Office of Alternative Medicine at the National Institutes of Health from 1995 to 1999 and led the World Health Organization's Collaborative Center for Traditional Medicine. Prior to that, he served as the director of medical research fellowship at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. He now advises national and international organizations on ways to implement evidence-based healing practices in their medical systems. Drawing on 40 years of research and patient care, Dr. read more
