As we begin the new year, the lifestyle medicine community has a lot of exciting developments ahead that will advance our goals. Key to our success is to promote awareness of, demand for, and participation in services that align with empirically based lifestyle medicine. We can achieve this through research, publication, traditional and social media releases, and implementing training and practice tools.  A few activities that are progressing along these lines are summed up here.

ACLM has collaborated with the Global Lifestyle Medicine Alliance and experts in the field to draft an article that demands change to prioritize lifestyle medicine in healthcare. We are hopeful for expedient publication in 2013. Many thanks go to the European College of Lifestyle Medicine who initiated this venture. We are looking forward to additional collaborations with our international colleagues.

The Medical Board of California is collecting nominees for an expert workgroup to guide the process and content of lifestyle medicine training included in chronic disease management CME programs. Pursuant to legislation which was passed in 2011, all chronic disease CME must include LM training. When this process is implemented successfully, other states may follow suit.
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