Practice Authentically and Effectively: How to Build, Bill, and Love Your Direct Lifestyle Medicine Practice

Melissa Mondala, MD shares about the various healthcare systems and programs that practice with Lifestyle Medicine incorporated within.

Cost: 249 - Entire Course
Speaker: Melissa Mondala, MD, MHA, LM Intensivist

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Melissa Mondala, MD shares about the various healthcare systems and programs that practice with Lifestyle Medicine incorporated within.

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ABOUT THIS LECTURE

Direct Lifestyle Medicine Care is an effective healthcare model that is purposeful, patient and provider centered, and profitable. There are various health care delivery models ranging from tertiary academic centers, community clinics, Health Maintenance Organization, Independent Physician Association and concierge. Direct Lifestyle Care Clinics are sustainable practices that can prevent provider burnout and improve patients outcomes due to greater access, affordability, and accountability. Direct Lifestyle Care provides an authentic space for motivational interviewing and therapeutic lifestyle change. Often the barriers of time restraints, declining reimbursement rates, and distrust in the doctor patient relationship, social determinants of health limit lifestyle medicine counseling. However, Direct Lifestyle Care can serve as platform to freely and safely manage medications and pursue improved medical outcomes.

Target Audience: Physicians looking for sustainable ways to practice medicine because of their strong frustration about the fragmented healthcare system. Physicians who desire to overcome burnout and find effective ways to practice medicine addressing root causes such as nutrition, exercise, sleep, stress management, social connection, emotional resiliency, and avoidance of risk substance use. Physicians who are looking for the courage, motivation, and tools to build a Lifestyle Medicine focused program or practice.

Learning Objectives:

1. Learn various healthcare systems that practice Lifestyle Medicine

2. Learn various healthcare programs that offer Lifestyle Medicine

3. Learn new innovative ways of Direct Primary/Specialty Care and Telemedicine

4. Learn various practice strategies, effective clinic flow, and ways to bring visibility

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The Speaker

Melissa Mondala, MD, MHA, LM Intensivist

Dr. Melissa Mondala is a triple specialist of family medicine, lifestyle medicine, and primary care psychiatry. She is one of the first and youngest nationally recognized lifestyle medicine fellows and is a strong community health advocate. She is co-founder of Dr. Lifestyle Clinic - Direct Lifestyle Care clinic. She serves as faculty at Loma Linda University Preventive/Lifestyle Medicine Department, which is one of the blue zones for longevity. She served as American College of Lifestyle Medicine Board of Director and is a Diplomate of Lifestyle Medicine. She planted seeds of change in the community through lecturing at local medical school, veg fest, and virtual summits. She devoted decades of volunteer work in underserved communities in California and internationally. She was featured in popular media, such as Forbes, Local Newsoutlets, and Social Media. She prioritizes lifestyle modifications to optimize health. Her passion is educating and empowering healthy living and simple plantbased cooking full of flavor and life! She led several tobacco cessation groups, taught Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP) lectures, and contributed to the Lifestyle Medicine Residency curriculum. To augment her training, she has completed observerships at the Weimar Institute’s NEWSTART, TrueNorth, and St. Helena’s TakeTEN, three intensive lifestyle change programs. She served the underserved in California, China, and the Philippines. While serving in Guam, she had the opportunity to lead Lifestyle Medicine visits and tobacco cessation groups. She is passionate about treating the underlying cause of disease and teaching transformative healthy lifestyle behaviors. She focuses on disease-specific lifestyle recommendations and consequently, she worked with patients for reversal of type 2 diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension, nonalcoholic fatty liver disease, rhinosinusitis, mood disorders, functional abdominal pain/irritable bowel syndrome, substance abuse, joint pain, brain fog, and early stage kidney disease. Through her lifestyle medicine rehabilitation experience with stroke and heart disease patients, she has implemented therapeutic lifestyle medicine recommendations in various settings, age groups, health conditions, including adolescent psychiatry, student health, sickle cell anemia, and underserved populations.

She is an uniquely engaging motivational speaker that brings evidence based methods to combat chronic disease and uplifts potential barriers through self-empowerment and self-compassion.

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