IN-PERSON WORKSHOP: Next Generation Lifestyle Medicine - Family-Based Care Across Practice Settings

Workshop Description: Join three lifestyle medicine pioneers as they share practical implementation strategies from three distinct practice models. This interactive workshop moves beyond theory to deliver actionable frameworks you can implement immediately—not just in your practice, but in your own family life.

This workshop directly addresses ACLM's mission to make LM the foundation of healthcare by providing proven, replicable frameworks that overcome the most common barriers to practice transformation—financial sustainability, time constraints, and institutional support—while unifying traditionally siloed adult and age-specific approaches into efficient family-centered care models.

The session will demonstrate how investing in family-based lifestyle medicine generates superior health and economic returns by preventing decades of chronic disease across generations, reducing healthcare utilization, and improving lifelong productivity for entire family units.

Healthcare Reform: Modeling innovative payment structures (DPC) and service delivery approaches (group visits, team-based care, family-systems interventions) that shift care from volume-based sick care to value-based preventive care, accelerating the transformation toward equitable, evidence-based health systems. By focusing on family-based implementation, this workshop addresses lifestyle medicine's most underserved and highest-impact population, equipping attendees to become catalysts for healthcare reform in their communities. Families represent our greatest opportunity to demonstrate lifestyle medicine's transformative potential—preventing disease rather than managing it, addressing root causes rather than symptoms, and building health across generations rather than simply treating illness in isolation.