Healthy People, Healthy Planet is a virtual speaker series designed for faculty, staff and learners in the Queen’s community to promote healthy behaviour with a focus on the intersection of lifestyle and planetary health to achieve optimal wellbeing.
Everyone is welcome to register for one or all of these free, virtual presentations by internationally-renowned speakers:
View details on all sessions and presenters
Diet at the confluence of public and planetary health: The case to Carpe (and Ede) DIEM
March 26 at 12 – 1 p.m.
Learning objectives:
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Understand the relationship between diet quality and both morbidity and mortality risk
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Recognize the strengths and weaknesses of alternative means of dietary assessment
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Appreciate the environmental impacts of diet
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Know how specific foods contribute to both human and planetary health outcomes
Speaker: Dr. David Katz
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More consensus than controversy in nutrition
April 9 at 12 – 1 p.m.
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Understand the usefulness of using the concepts of "Equipose", "As intended" and "With/what/instead of what" to address controversy in nutrition and arrive at greater consensus
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Identify the different popular dietary patterns that are most and least aligned with the intersection of human and planetary health
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Appreciate the importance of the role of health science communication in driving and supporting successful behaviour change in dietary habits
Speaker: Dr. Christopher Gardner
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Mechanisms of disease reversal utilizing plant-based nutrition
April 14 at 12 – 1 p.m.
Learning objectives:
- Explores the reality of what a patient's daily diet does to their body to largely create disease
- Presents a therapeutic tool physicians can use to demonstrably reverse chronic disease in their patients
- Changes the way medical students and clinicians see health and disease leading to more effective medicine being practices and a more satisfying career for physicians
Speaker: Dr. Michael Klaper
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What does your body already know about healing stress? Somatic skills for self-regulation
April 17 at 12 – 1 p.m.
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Learn the natural ways that your body is already able to restore a parasympathetic, healing state of calm and connectedness
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Multiple-modalities including guided imagery, breath, gaze, soothing touch, and tapping will be taught in an experiential learning session
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Climate psychology will also be integral to this discussion
Speaker: Dr. Christy Gibson
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Lifestyle medicine for personal and planetary health
April 22 at 12 – 1 p.m.
Learning objectives:
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Describe how human health is intertwined with planetary health
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Explore how planetary disruptions, including climate change, threaten lifestyle medicine interventions
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The practice of lifestyle medicine presents an opportunity to improve the health of individuals, communities, and the planet
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Identify strategies to engage in behaviour change that protects human and planetary health
Speaker: Dr. Neha Pathak
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PANEL: The practice and teaching of lifestyle medicine across Canada
May 7 at 12 – 1 p.m.
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Discuss different care delivery models for lifestyle medicine in Canada
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Discuss paradigm shift in medical practice such that emphasis is placed on prevention and reversal of chronic disease through intensive lifestyle intervention
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Review continuing medical education opportunities for physicians and allied health care professions to improve competence and/or become certified in lifestyle medicine
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Discuss initiatives for inclusion of lifestyle medicine in the teaching curricula for both undergraduate and postgraduate medical education
Speakers: Dr. Jasdeep Saluja, Dr. Brendan Byrne, Dr. Jules Cormier, Dr. Caroline Rhéaume, Dr. Rikin Patel, Dr. Maria Theodorou
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