Session 10A: Lifestyle Medicine in Practice
Tracks
Track 1
Saturday, May 18, 2024 |
11:25 AM - 12:00 PM |
Tāwhirimātea A & G |
Details
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
Dr Olivia Currie
Family And Lifestyle Physician
Health and Sport Central, Real Healthy Me
Lifestyle Medicine in Practice
11:25 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
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.
Dr Peter Carr-Boyd
UGI/HPB surgeon
Lifestyle Medicine in practice
11:25 AM - 12:00 PMBiography
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
Erin Jackson
Director
Project Gender / Narrative Campaigns