American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Ume / gme / cme education: aclm's 24.1 million commitment (education value equivalent) in support of the 2022 white house conference on hunger, nutrition and health was applauded by white house, cdc and conference leaders. Comprised of 100,000 complimentary registrations for the 5.5-hour cme/ce-accredited Lifestyle Medicine and food as Medicine essentials online course, it is already reaching thousands of clinicians with training they did not receive in their formal medical education: the introduction to Lifestyle Medicine, paired with nutrition for prevention and longevity, and nutrition for treatment and risk reduction (the first two modules of aclm's multi-module food as Medicine online course). Foodasmed.org is aclm's curated repository of our food in Medicine (fim) related curricula, research and offerings. A new learning management system was licensed in 2022 to support aclm's rapidly expanding cme and gme offerings, including the remission of type 2 diabetes & reversal of insulin resistance with Lifestyle Medicine online course (a certificate to be added in 2023). In just its third year, the expansion of the Lifestyle Medicine residency curriculum (lmrc) to more than 202 programs across the country, represented more than 5,300 enrollees, with the stephen turner residency director scholarship program helping to ensure that this key constituency is educated, equipped and empowered to train our future physicians and, in turn, tens of millions of patients. Aclm also become an ama ed hub content provider, featuring aclm content and courses. Ume focus included continued availability of complimentary curricula, along with Lifestyle Medicine interest group (lmig) expansion, growing the 104 lmig located on campuses across the nation. Grant funding was also procured to develop the ume curriculum certification project. Lm2022 represented the first in-person convening in the post-covid pandemic era: aclm successfully produced a hybrid event, with a sold-out in-person attendance of 1,900, with hundreds more participating virtually. The conference, paired with aclm's foundations of Lifestyle Medicine board review course, satisfy the live and non-live prerequisites to sit for the American board of Lifestyle Medicine (ablm) certification exam.

Practice advancement & health equity: established in 2021, the aclm's health systems council ended 2022 with 82 members, representing health systems in 34 states across the nation, with the goal of reaching 100 members and all 50 states in the coming year. All member systems have committed to infusing Lifestyle Medicine into both employee and patient health. In 2022, aclm debuted the clinical practice and quality committee (cpqc) from which a wide array of clinical practice and patient-facing tools and resources, which, this year, have included women's health for preconception, pregnancy and postpartum; the pediatric obesity toolkit; and the independent primary care practice roadmap. The committee also completed the template of standard emr data elements. Emanating from aclm's health equity achieved through Lifestyle Medicine (heal) initiative, more than two dozen heal scholarships were awarded (totaling 90k) to provide comprehensive aclm lm training and the opportunity for certification in the field through registration for the ablm exam. These scholarships are designed to address the problematic reality of underrepresented in Medicine (urm) clinicians. Helping to usher in health equity, aclm piloted the health and faith initiative to bring Lifestyle Medicine educational resources to the black church, with this project emanating from the aclm 2020 health disparities solutions summit. The project pilot was hosted in a 5000-member black church, delivering an online resource portal and full eight-week, facilitator-led group training centered on full plate living, customized for the black community. Aclm established a reoccurring column in medscape and published guest commentaries in health affairs, all with the goal of promoting Lifestyle Medicine in healthcare and amplifying it as a solution to out-of-control and unsustainable healthcare spending.

Research: a blaring wake-up call, is that type 2 diabetes (t2d) can no longer be referred to as 'adult onset' because too many children are being diagnosed with this degenerative disease. Aclm is the champion for treatment, remission (reversal), and prevention of this lifestyle-related chronic condition and, this year, developed a dietary treatment program for t2d remission: Lifestyle empowerment approach for diabetes remission (leadr) program, with initial grant funding received from the national academies of Medicine and the ardmore institute of health. 2022 research publications included: dietary interventions for type 2 diabetes remission: an expert consensus statement from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine Lifestyle Medicine core competencies: ajlm-published update of original 2010 jama-published aclm accepted conference research abstracts (more than 100) in ajlm aclm's research department and committee worked through Lifestyle Medicine intensivist competencies and lm performance measures, while also developing a pilot of the aclm diet screener.

Membership & operations: aclm experienced continued rapid growth, breaking through the 9,000- membership mark, representing a 28% increase from fy21 to fy22. More than two dozen member interest groups (migs) facilitate active aclm member engagement, with endocrinology, men's health and emergency Medicine migs added in 2022. Aclm's new connect platform was also launched to enable member discussion threads, with the new aclm jobs board debuting as a service to members and to the employers across the nation seeking Lifestyle medicine-trained physicians, clinicians, administrators and educators. In order to assist consumers in locating a Lifestyle medicine-trained provider, lmpros.com was unveiled (will continue to be built-out) as the directory of certified Lifestyle Medicine providers. Aclm implemented a multi-factor authentication office environment and moved its website hosting to a tier 4 server to ensure the highest level of cyber security, while also focusing on enhanced customer service software and capacity to ensure optimal member and customer support.