Lifestyle Medicine: Person-Centered, High-Value, Evidence-Based Care - Online Course

This course is available for FREE to Sigma Members.

Lifestyle medicine utilizes therapeutic lifestyle interventions as a primary modality to treat noncommunicable chronic conditions such as metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes. Nurses and advanced practice nurses are well positioned to offer lifestyle medicine interventions to best optimize chronic disease outcomes utilizing a person-centered approach.

This course will retire after 29th March 2026.

Learning Outcomes:
After participating in this course, learners will be able to:

• Define lifestyle medicine
• Explore how lifestyle medicine is an essential component of healthcare
• Recognize opportunities, tools and resources that can be invaluable to move LM forward within clinical practice

Speaker Bio:

Kelly Freeman, MSN, AGPCNP-BC, DipdACLM
Kelly Freeman is the current Director of Academic Advancement at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Previous roles include Lieutenant in the United States Navy Nurse Corps, wound consultant, legal nurse consultant, adult/geriatric primary care NP, and university faculty. She holds two post-graduate certificates from Indiana University and public health and nursing education. She has co-authored two book chapters and has co-written research papers on lifestyle medicine reimbursement, shared medical appointments, provider burnout, and cost savings.