As an ACLM member for over 13 years, she co-founded the Women’s Health Member Interest Group as well as the Pre-Professional Lifestyle Medicine Education Member Interest Group. She serves on the ACLM Education and Membership Committees and is also serving her second term as the ACLM executive board secretary. She received her board certification from the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and a fellowship in Lifestyle Medicine from ACLM.
She is the editor-in-chief of Improving Women’s Health Across the Lifespan, co-author of PAVING the Path to Wellness, an international speaker, women’s health consultant, breast cancer survivor and thriver. Her new book PAVING the Path to Wellness through Menopause, Midlife, and Beyond, will be published later this year.
ABSTRACT
Women’s Health through Lifespan
Prof. Dr. Michelle Tollefson, MD Obstetrician-Gynecologist, FACOG, DipABLM, FACLM. Secretary of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Executive Board. Professor in the Health Professions Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver, Colorado (USA)Healthy eating, movement, sleep, stress management, and social connections support thriving through the menopause transition and far beyond. Lifestyle medicine supports a woman’s cardiometabolic health, physical function, brain health, and thriving trajectories. As clinicians, we can use the menopause transition, as a window of opportunity to help our patients make positive changes in their lifestyle behaviors, and positively impact their health trajectories.
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