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Session 10A: Lifestyle Medicine in Practice

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Track 1
Saturday, May 18, 2024
11:25 AM - 12:00 PM
Tāwhirimātea A & G

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This presentation includes a brief introduction lifestyle medicine, benefits with this approach and how you can start implementing principles of lifestyle medicine in your practice today.


Speaker

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Dr Olivia Currie
Family And Lifestyle Physician
Health and Sport Central, Real Healthy Me

Lifestyle Medicine in Practice

11:25 AM - 12:00 PM

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Final presentation

Biography

Dr. Olivia is a GP and Lifestyle doctor based in Christchurch. She has special interests in oncology and remissioning of long term health conditions by optimising her patient's nutrition, lifestyle and medication use. Her lifestyle Medicine clinic Real Healthy Me is the first of its kind in New Zealand where she offers health improvement programmes and lifestyle medicine consultations. She practices family medicine at Health and Sport Central, contributes as a clinician for the HRC funded diabetes reversal project, clinical leader with Pegasus Health, and faculty member of the RNZCGP.
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Dr Peter Carr-Boyd
UGI/HPB surgeon

Lifestyle Medicine in practice

11:25 AM - 12:00 PM

Presentation overview

Final presentation

Biography

Dr Peter Carr-Boyd - FRACS, MS, MBBS (Hons), BMedSci Peter is a specialist Upper GI/HPB/Liver Transplant Surgeon. He obtained his medical degree from The University of Sydney and a FRACS in General Surgery. Following this, he spent 2 years sub-specialising in Upper Gastrointestinal, Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery at Auckland City Hospital and The Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, with a further two years focusing on adult and paediatric liver transplantation at UPMC, USA. His interest in change management and leadership led him to complete The Harvard Medical School Surgical Leadership Program. Peter lives in Auckland with his wife, Emily, and three children. He is a proponent of lifestyle medicine and enjoys incorporating these principles into his practice and own life. In his spare time, Peter enjoys running, skiing, rockclimbing, and tramping.

Moderator

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Erin Jackson
Director
Project Gender / Narrative Campaigns

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