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June 11, 2010
Drop Everything and Exercise!
Click on the video frame to the left to watch 10 Minutes of Exercise You Can Do Anywhere, featuring Stephan Esser, MD. This video was filmed at Tools for Promoting Healthy Change, an Institute of Lifestyle Medicine Harvard CME Course.
January 6, 2010
Dr. Phillips was interviewed by Good Morning America's Dr. Tim
Johnson in a segment called, Do You Need a Health Coach?
December 14, 2009
The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine was presented with Partners in Excellence (PIE) Team Awards recognizing accomplishments in both Outstanding Community Contributions and Leadership & Innovation at the Partners in Excellence award ceremony held on December 14, 2009.
Under the leadership of Edward Phillips, MD, the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine and its devoted staff have highlighted Lifestyle Medicine as the most effective and most rational treatment in the management of medical problems such as hypertension, obesity, and other preventable disease. This was accomplished by the creation of innovative live and online Harvard Medical School continuing medical education offerings, Grand Rounds presentations, and over 20 invited lectures in the last year alone and the publication of ACSM's Exercise is Medicine: A Clinicians Guide to Exercise Prescription (Lippincott 2009), which ILM founder and director, Edward Phillips, MD, co-authored. Anna Rubin, ILM Education & Outreach Coordinator, accepted the award on behalf of the entire ILM team.
Pictured (left to right) David Storto, President, Partners Continuing Care; Rob Welch, Vice President, Ambulatory Services; Anna Rubin, ILM's Education & Outreach Coordinator; and Maureen Banks, President, Shaughnessy Kaplan.
July 6, 2009
Congratulations to Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital's Dr. Edward Phillips on being selected as a recipient of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS) Community Leadership Award for 2009. This award is given out annually to individuals who provide or enhance opportunities to engage in sports, physical activities, or fitness-related programs in their community.
"We are honored to present this award to Dr. Phillips," says RADM Penelope Slade-Sawyer, acting executive director of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports. "Physical activity and sports participation are an important part of living a healthy, more active life and we are pleased to recognize individuals, like Dr. Phillips, who are committed to making a difference and influencing the health of their communities."
In nominating Dr. Phillips for the award, his work in the emerging field of Lifestyle Medicine was cited. In 2007, he founded the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard Medical School (Dept. of PM&R). Phillips, now Director of the ILM, is on a mission to reduce lifestyle-related disease and mortality through physician directed intervention.
Under Dr. Phillips's leadership, the ILM provides training and information about Exercise Prescription and Lifestyle Medicine in the form of Harvard CME courses (Active Doctors, Active Patients, November 2009; Lifestyle Medicine: Tools for Promoting Healthy Change, being offered June 2010) and online Harvard CME courses (Lifestyle Medicine for Weight Management, Lifestyle Medicine for Stress Management and Lifestyle Medicine: The Exercise Prescription). Additionally, Dr. Phillips is co-author of ACSM's Exercise is Medicine™: A Clinician's Guide to Exercise Prescription (2009, Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins), a tool doctors will use to help them understand and implement exercise prescriptions for their patients.
Dr. Phillips is an active member of the Exercise is Medicine™ Task Force and works closely with the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and other groups. He lectures nationally and internationally on physical activity, exercise prescription, lifestyle medicine and behavior change.
July 6, 2009
Dr. Phillips was quoted in the Health Answers column of the Boston Globe: "Does stretching before or after exercise prevent injuries and soreness?"
March 30, 2009
The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine announces partnership with the Medical Fitness Association (MFA).
October 7, 2008
Federal Recommendations for Physical Activity are announced at a press conference in Washington, DC.
Approximately two-thirds of the American population does not participate in regular, moderate-intensity activities, and those in Washington have noticed. "This is the first time our federal government has addressed head-on the growing epidemic of physical inactivity and the resulting crisis of obesity from the perspective of using exercise as a key medical tool," says Dr. Edward M. Phillips, an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Harvard Medical School, Director of Outpatient Medical Services at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, and Founder and Director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine.
October 2008
Dr. Edward M. Phillips is interviewed by Club Business International.
Dr. Edward M. Phillips discusses what inspired him to create the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine and how he plans to teach the world that "Exercise is Medicine".
October 2008
Dr. Elizabeth Frates is interviewed by Stroke Connection Magazine.
In the September/October 2008 edition of Stroke Connection Magazine, Elizabeth Frates, MD offers insights into the benefits of exercise after stroke and outlines some specific ways to add more activity to your daily routine, regardless of your past or current level of fitness. Keys to success? Have fun, start slowly, don't compare yourself to others, chart your progress, and share your achievements.
Read the full article "Getting Active, Staying Active".
May 3, 2008
Dr. Phillips receives the Alumni Achievement Award.
Director & Founder of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, Edward M. Phillips, MD, received the SUNY-Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences' Medical Alumni Achievement Award in honor of his "Extraordinary Accomplishments and Leadership" in the field of Lifestyle Medicine.
2008
Dr. Edward M. Phillips joins the Exercise is Medicine™ Task Force.
Edward M. Phillips, MD, is appointed to the Exercise is Medicine™ Task Force. The Task Force is comprised of 13 members of the American College of Sports Medicine. ACSM is grateful for the Task Force's commitment to furthering the Exercise is Medicine™ initiative and is especially appreciative of Dr. Robert Sallis' vision and enthusiasm in creating the program. The Task Force will serve as the guiding body of Exercise is Medicine™ as the initiative grows and moves forward.
December 2007
The Institute of lifestyle Medicine receives a minigrant.
The ILM was awarded a minigrant from Harvard Medical School's Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. The grant will support the work of Dr. Edward M. Phillips on ACSM's Exercise is Medicine™, The Clinician's Guide to the Exercise Prescription.
November 2007
Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS, FNYAS joins the ILM Board.
The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine welcomes Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS, FNYAS to its Board of Advisors.
Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS, FNYAS is a Professor of Preventive Medicine at the School of Medicine, Professor of the Graduate Program in Public Health, and Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research at Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, NY. Dr. Jonas holds a BA from Columbia College (1958), an MD from the Harvard Medical School (1962), an MPH from the Yale School of Medicine (1967), and an MS in Health Management from the Wagner School of New York University (1997). He has also studied at the London School of Economics and the Touro College Law Center. He took his residency in Preventive Medicine/Public Health in the New York City Department of Health. He is board certified in Preventive Medicine.
Dr. Jonas is a Fellow of the New York Academy of Sciences (elected), the American College of Preventive Medicine, the American Public Health Association, and the New York Academy of Medicine. He is a past president of the Association of Teachers of Preventive Medicine and a past member of the New York State Board for Medicine. He is Editor-in-Chief of the American Medical Athletic Association Journal. He has authored, co-authored, edited, and co-edited 11 books of his own and has collaborated on 17 others. Dr. Jonas is currently at work on the ACSM's Exercise is Medicine™, The Clinician's Guide to the Exercise Prescription, which he is co-authoring with Edward Phillips, MD. The book will be published by Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins in early 2009.
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