The National Congress of Lifestyle Medicine begins, the event that will give a new direction to Romanian medicine / the event that will offer a new approach to the patient

The Romanian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (RSLM), in partnership with the Scientific Senate of the Dan Voiculescu Foundation for the Development of Romania, is organizing the second edition of the National Congress of Lifestyle Medicine, with international participation, on 27-29 September.

The event, entitled “Modern Lethal Diseases: Do we tackle the symptoms or the causes?”, will bring to the Romanian public physicians and specialists, renowned worldwide for their discoveries in the field of lifestyle medicine such as Dr. Michael GREGER, Dr. Caldwell ESSELSTYN, Dr. Dean ORNISH, Prof. Garry Egger, Dr. Michael KLAPER, T. Colin CAMPBELL, Prof. Labros SIDOSSIS, Dr. Rob LAWSON, Susan BENIGAS, Dr. Beth FRATES, Dr. Ifeoma MONYE, Dr. Scot STOLL, Dr. Darren MORTON, and Brenda DAVIS.

Essential life-saving information and benefits for medical professionals

During the three days of the congress, 45 national and international medical leaders will present to the audience essential information on how we should live our lives in order to have a minimum guarantee of a long and healthy old age. Medical professionals attending should be aware that this congress is accredited by the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine with 10 CME hours, the Romanian College of Physicians has credited this event with 18 CME credits and the Romanian College of Pharmacists has credited this event with 30 CME credits.

Doctors of the future will have a team in Romania too

The event is just one of the organisers’ initiatives in the field of lifestyle medicine, as according to a 2021 country profile analysis by the European Commission, almost half of all deaths in Romania in 2019 can be attributed to behavioural risk factors such as tobacco use, unhealthy diet, alcohol consumption and low physical activity levels.

In this context, the RSLM intends to implement the lifestyle medicine curriculum in Romanian universities to train well-trained health professionals able to provide patients with evidence-based approaches to the prevention, reversal and treatment of lifestyle-related conditions.

For more information, please visit the official event page: https://lifestylemedicineromania.org/congress-lifestyle-medicine-2023/.

Romanian Society of Lifestyle Medicine RSLM is a professional organization founded in 2019 in Romania aiming to bring Lifestyle Medicine to the forefront of the country’s healthcare system. At its core, the founding of RSLM started from the observation of an alarming increase in lifestyle-related conditions in Romania and the imperative need to address this problem through an innovative and different approach.