Health professional wellness impacts their health, patients, and the health care system. Poor well-being is a driver for decreased productivity and turnover. Over time, an increased workload, provider shortage, electronic medical records, insurance networks, and greater productivity have taken a toll on health care workers in the United States. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased these issues exponentially. This course provides on-demand podcasts with topics in the area of lifestyle medicine education with calls to action. Additionally, participants will engage in weekly, 1:1, 20-minute coaching sessions with a certified health and wellness coach to put the education into action.

For inquiries regarding bulk purchases, please reach out to Misti Zablosky at misti.zablosky@unthsc.edu directly for information. When making bulk purchases, you'll need to provide a list of emails to input during the purchase 

Accreditation and Designation Statements

Physicians, Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). The University of North Texas Health Science Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of North Texas Health Science Center designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The University of North Texas Health Science Center is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association to award continuing medical education to physicians. The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth designates this program for a maximum of 3.25 AOA Category 2-A credits and will report CME and specialty credits commensurate with the extent of the physician’s participation in this activity.

Nurses

The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This activity provides up to 3.25 contact hour(s).

Faculty Disclosures

Neither the planning committee members nor any faculty have relevant financial or leadership relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.

Accessibility

If you require special assistance to participant in this learning activity, please call (817)735-2539 or email: register@unthsc.edu. An Equal Opportunity University.

Course Faculty

	Misty Zablosky, PhD, LAT, CHCW, DipACLM Interim Chair and Assistant Professor in the Department of Lifestyle Health Sciences. Dr. Zablosky holds a Ph.D. in Kinesiology from Texas Woman’s University. She also earned an M.S. in Kinesiology from The University of North Texas and a B.S. in Exercise and Sport Science from Tarleton State University. She is a licensed athletic trainer, a lifestyle medicine certified health and wellness coach, and board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Before joining UNTHSC she worked as an Associate Professor of Health and Wellness at Paul Quinn College. At PQC, she developed and implemented a curriculum for a new Bachelor’s degree program in Health and Wellness. Dr. Zablosky is currently participating in research that is investigating the effects of exercise on cancer-related cognitive impairments in African American women with breast cancer. In her free time, she enjoys chasing her two-year-old, spending time outdoors with her family, and reading new books.
	Jennifer Singh, MD Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Health Professions at UNTHSC and Assistant Professor at LSU Feist Weiller Cancer Center. She received her M.D. from LSU School of Medicine in Shreveport, and completed her residency in combined Internal Medicine / Pediatrics, and is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Pediatrics, and the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. Although she has always been an avid home cook, her interest in a whole-foods-plant-based diet was piqued five years ago when her father was diagnosed with leukemia. A thorough evidence review prompted her to lead her family to change their diet for maximum health and wellness. Now with a special focus in Lifestyle Medicine, nutrition, and behaviors to treat and prevent chronic disease. She lives in Shreveport, Louisiana with her husband and children, and can usually be found gardening, biking, and of course cooking with family and friends.
	Saray Stancic, MD Saray Stancic, M.D. is triple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Lifestyle Medicine. She graduated from New Jersey Medical School in 1993 and after completing her fellowship, accepted the position as Chief of Infectious Diseases at the Hudson Valley VA in New York. In later years, she served as Translational Medical Leader at Roche Pharmaceuticals where she led clinical trials in the field of viral hepatitis and HIV. In 2012, she left her work in Infectious Diseases to fully dedicate her time to the field of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Stancic's interest in Lifestyle Medicine is rooted in her personal story as a patient living with multiple sclerosis. She is the founder of one of the first Lifestyle Medicine practices in the country and mentors the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. She seeks to spread the power of preventive medicine on a global scale and bring needed change to how we train physicians. She is the Producer and co-creator of the documentary film; Code Blue, which made its global release in May of 2020. Dr. Stancic released her first book earlier this year, entitled, What’s Missing from Medicine; Six Lifestyle Changes to Overcome Chronic Illness.
	Erika Jackson, MCC, MLHR, NBC-HWC Erika received an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a Master's Degree in Labor and Human Resources from The Ohio State University, which supported her work in human resources and organizational leadership in banking, government, and Fortune 500 retail organizations. Erika is the VP, Training and Operations for Wellcoaches, leading a team of 30 coaching leaders from all over the world who have trained over 13,000 coaches since 2002. She is co-author of critical health and wellness coaching texts such as The Coaching Psychology Manual, The Complete Handbook of Coaching (Chapter 22), and A Pilot Study of Health & Wellness Coaching for Fibromyalgia. Erika is also an instructional design consultant for ImprovEdge, combining neuroscience and improvisation, and a volunteer instructional designer for Braver Angels, designing workshops that bring Americans together to bridge the partisan divide. She co-founded a regional organization designed to promote anti-racism in her rural community. And, for fun, Erika is the Manager of a community theatre and sings in a band with her husband and children. Listen to Erika's discussion about coaching on EmergoRadio
	Mark D. Faries, PhD Mark D. Faries, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor within the Department of Kinesiology and Health Science at Stephen F. Austin State University, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor within the College of Medicine and Department of Health and Kinesiology at Texas A&M University. Dr. Faries’ research and teaching focus is primarily in the self-regulation of lifestyle behaviors, including exercise, physical activity, healthy eating, and weight control. More specifically, this research seeks to move beyond current perspectives to elucidate why and how people initiate and maintain health behaviors. In other words, he discerns medication adherence, when lifestyle is the medicine.
	Debbie Gillespie, EDD, MS, RDN, LD, NBC-HWC, ACC, DipACLM Debbie Gillespie is Assistant Professor in the Department of Lifestyle Health Sciences. She is one of the first International Board of Lifestyle Medicine certified registered and licensed dietitians with over 25 years of experience across a broad spectrum of dietetics including clinical, oncology and cardiovascular research, renal, health promotion, and public health education. She earned her B.S. in Dietetics from Miami University, an M.S. in Medical Dietetics from Saint Louis University, and is currently pursuing her doctoral degree in Health Professions Education. She is also a certified health coach through Wellcoaches with advanced training.  She served as the Program Director for the Graduate Certificate in Lifestyle Health for the past five years and has been a leader in providing nutrition, emotional intelligence, culinary, and lifestyle medicine education at UNTHSC. She enjoys traveling and learning about different countries and cultures and is passionate about nutrition education and health coaching. “I am thrilled to be collaborating with an extraordinary team of educators and researchers who recognize the important role coaches play in facilitating growth and expanding the capacity for sustainable lifestyle change for optimal health, vitality, and well-being.”
	Kathy Parmele, MD, FACEP Katerina (Kathy) Tsapos Parmele, MD, FACEP is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician, Director of Wellness at CalvertHealth Emergency Medicine, and a member of ACLM.  Her passion for lifestyle medicine was initiated during a period of burnout in her own clinical practice. She successfully combatted this burnout by personally adhering to lifestyle medicine principles and decided that she would dedicate her life to helping other physicians do the same. She is the founder of HealThySelf HealThyWorld, LLC which aims to spread the lifestyle medicine message to clinicians in order to pay it forward exponentially to their patients. She is a Harvard- certified CHEF Coach and a Wellcoaches Health and Wellness Coach. She is an avid endurance athlete, having completed 14 marathons and 4 Ironman triathlons to date. She is also an avid Greek cook and spreads the culinary medicine message to others one delicious forkful at a time.