Medical Experts Present Innovative Lifestyle Medicine Solutions for WomenWomen’s life cycles, corresponding symptoms, and health risks are a primary focus for the medical community. Research indicates that women and men experience many of the same health issues, but they can affect women differ-ently than men.

Join 17 leading experts who will be addressing the critical and most relevant issues related to women’s health. This groundbreaking event is a unique op-portunity to learn recent scientific advancements in prevention and treatment of women’s common health issues from leading medical experts in the field of lifestyle medicine and other forward-thinking practitioners.

Fairmont Millennium Park Hotel 200 North Columbus Drive Within walking distance of Navy Pier

Reception: Friday, October 4 Conference: October 5-6

Fees Early bird registration: $349 After June 30, 2013: $399

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2013 Lifestyle Medicine Summit Women’s Health: What Women Really Want

October 4-6, 2013 Fairmont Millennium Park Hotel — Chicago, Illinois

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Friday, October 4, 2013

5:00–7:00 pm Registration

7:00–9:00 pm Welcome Reception

Saturday, October 5, 20137:00–8:00 am Registration and Breakfast

8:00–9:00 amJeffrey Bland, PhD—Women at Risk: the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Approach to Osteoporosis, Cardiometabolic Disease, and Autoimmune Disorders

9:00–10:00 am Mark Hyman, MD—Autoimmune Deficiencies in Women: Reversing the Epidemic

10:00–10:30 am Break

10:30 am–12:00 pm Mark Houston, MD—Women and Heart Disease: Infinite Causes with Finite Responses

12:00–1:00 pm Lunch

1:00–2:15 pm Breakout Sessions

Jim LaValle, RPh Women and Autoimmune Disease: Emerging Science

Robert Bonakdar, MD Women and Pain: Optimal Approaches for Optimal Outcomes

Robert Silverman, DC Nutritional Strategies to Enhance Women’s Performance

2:15–2:30 pm Break

2:30–3:45 pm Breakout Sessions

Wendy Warner, MD Shifting the Focus in Menopause Management: the Impact of Adrenal Function

Bridget Briggs, MD The Depression Pandemic: Natural Strategies for Bridging the Mind-Body Gap

Delilah Anderson, DC Hypertension in Women: What We Know about Gender Differences in Blood Pressure

3:45–4:00 pm Break

4:00–5:15 pm Breakout Sessions

Jeffrey Morrison, MD Toxic Metals, Cardiovascular Disease, and Women’s Health

Edward Phillips, MD Lifestyle Medicine: True Healthcare Reform

Robert Rakowski, DC A Lifetime of Power: Optimizing Musculoskeletal Health

Sunday, October 6, 2012

7:00–8:00 am Breakfast

8:00–9:00 am James Levine, MD—Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis

9:00–10:15 am Breakout Sessions

Wendy Rashidi, MD Transforming Lives with a Clinically Tested Weight Loss Program

Kristi Hughes, ND Creating Mitochondrial Vitality and Supporting Cellular Energy

Shilpa Saxena, MD Gender Differences in Metabolic Syndrome

10:15–10:30 am Break

10:30 am–12:00 pm Christiane Northrup, MD—What Women Really Want

12:00 pm Adjourn

• Proper diagnostic history, physical exam, and lab testing used in integrative medical approaches.

• Treatment strategies to balance adrenal hormone function and ovarian hormone production.

• How a healthy lifestyle reduces the rate of age-related decline in women.

• Integrative approaches in addressing pain in women including comorbidities of depression, sleep, and hormonal dysfunction.

• How to recognize adverse health effects of toxic metal expo-sure on women’s health and the influence of hormones, oral contraceptives, and menopause on hypertensive women.

• Mechanisms by which childhood experiences of women impact the endocrine, immune, and central nervous systems.

• Optimal nutritional strategies for the integrity of the muscu-loskeletal system.

• How to prescribe activities for patients as part of the lifestyle medicine approach to addressing chronic illness in women.

Last year’s Lifestyle Medicine Summit sold out early. To ensure a space at this year’s Summit, healthcare practitioners are advised to register early.

Register today!

At this one-of-a-kind conference, you’ll discover:

Learn from respected leaders in modern lifestyle medicine

The 2013 Lifestyle Medicine Summit is a one-of-a-kind conference featuring 17 leading

experts who will be addressing the critical and most relevant issues related to women’s

health. Discover the latest scientific findings, forward-thinking diagnostic markers, and

personalized lifestyle medicine approaches for more successful patient outcomes.

Christiane Northrup, MD—She is a board certified OB/GYN and the author of two New York Times bestselling books, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, and The Wisdom of Menopause. She has also hosted seven public television specials and has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, the TODAY show, NBC Nightly News, The View, the Rachael Ray Show, Good Morning America, 20/20, and The Dr. Oz Show.

Mark Hyman, MD—He is an internationally recognized leader in addressing the root causes of chronic illness. He is the bestselling author of The Blood Sugar Solution, UltraMetabolism, The UltraMind Solution, and The UltraSimple Diet, and coauthor of UltraPrevention. He serves as the chairman of the Institute for Functional Medicine, and is on the board of directors of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine, where he is also a faculty member.

Mark C. Houston, MD—He has presented over 10,000 lectures internationally, published six bestselling books and over 200 articles and scientific abstracts, and completed over 80 clinical studies in hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and cardiovascular disease. He is an associate clinical professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine; director of the Hypertension Institute and Vascular Biology; and medical director of the Division of Human Nutrition at Saint Thomas Medical Group, Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, TN.

Jeffrey Bland, PhD, FACS, CN—He is internationally respected for his work in nutritional biochemistry and functional medicine, and has authored more than 150 papers and five books on nutrition and its relationship to health and disease. He is a former senior research scientist and director at the Linus Pauling Institute of Science and Medicine, a co-founder of Bastyr University, and the founder of the Institute for Functional Medicine. He served as the chief science officer at Metagenics for more than a decade, and is currently on the Board of Directors. Dr. Bland recently founded the Personalized Lifestyle Medicine Institute, where he serves as president.

Kristi Hughes, ND—She is the associate director of medical education for the Institute for Functional Medicine and co-developer of the Metagenics FirstLine Therapy® Certification Program, which helps doctors implement personalized lifestyle therapies in clinical practice. She is also the founder of the Center of Natural Healing Arts, providing various modalities of natural health care.

Wendy Warner, MD—She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology, as well as in holistic medicine. She runs a successful private practice and serves on the medical advisory board for The Dr. Oz Show, where she has made appearances to discuss integrative approaches to women’s health issues—including hormonal imbalance, menopause, and central adiposity. She is also a member of the teaching faculty for the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine.

Jim LaValle, RPh, CCN, ND—He is a nationally recognized clinical pharmacist, author, board certified clinical nutritionist, naturopathic doctor, and founder of LaValle Metabolic Institute, an interdisciplinary medicine facility in Cincinnati where he has served thousands of patients using his metabolic model for health. He is the author of 16 e-books and 17 books, including Cracking the Metabolic Code, Smart Medicine for Healthier Living, Nutritional Cost of Drugs, The Cox-2 Connection, and the soon-to-be-released book Your Blood Doesn’t Lie.

Robert Bonakdar, MD—He is a member of the Division of Integrative Medicine at Scripps Health in San Diego, CA. He is board certified in family practice and a member of numerous professional organizations, including the American Academy of Family Physicians, the California Academy of Family Physicians, the American Holistic Medical Association, and the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture. He has conducted award-winning research and presented at numerous conferences in the area of herbal and natural medicines.

Wendy Rashidi, MD, FAAFP, FABHM—She is board certified by the American Academy of Family Physicians and the American Board of Holistic Medicine, and also has a masters degree in clinical nutrition. Dr. Rashidi is the founder and director of Women’s View Medical Group, an integrative family and women’s health center in Upland, CA. In addition to her professional speaking engagements, she is an assistant clinical professor of family medicine at Western University of the Health Sciences.

Jeffrey Morrison, MD—He is board certified in family practice and has completed additional training in Environmental Medicine. He is the Vice President of the American College for the Advancement in Medicine (ACAM) and a member of the American Academy of Environmental Medicine (AAEM). Dr. Morrison is the author of Cleanse Your Body, Clear Your Mind. He has also made many television appearances—including on The Dr. Oz Show and The View—and has lectured throughout the country.

Robert Rakowski, DC, CCN—He is the clinic director of the Natural Medicine Center in Houston, Texas. He has lectured internationally to healthcare professionals on various health topics for over 13 years, and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs as an expert in natural medicine. His clinical experience ranges from treating professional athletes to those with chronic conditions.

Bridget Briggs, MD—She is a board-certified family practitioner who specializes in integrative medicine in her private practice in Southern California. She received certification through the Scripps Institute for Integrative Medicine and frequently lectures with other industry thought leaders on the clinical application of lifestyle medicine programs to manage cardiovascular concerns and other chronic diseases.

Robert Silverman, DC—He is a nationally known speaker and author, and has been featured in radio and his own local TV show. Dr. Silverman has a successful private practice in White Plains, NY, where he specializes in joint pain. He is also a Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Clinical Nutritionist, a Certified Sports Nutritionist, and has been designated as a Diplomate of both the American Clinical Board of Nutrition and the Chiropractic Board of Clinical Nutrition.

Delilah A. Anderson, DC, MS—She is a board certified chiropractic internist and a board certified clinical nutritionist. Dr. Anderson specializes in prevention of cardiovascular disease, hypertension, stroke, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome utilizing nutrition and lifestyle interventions. She is a consultant with the Fox Valley Cardiology Consultants managing patients who have already experienced a cardiovascular event. She is also a former president of Diplomate of the American Board of Chiropractic Internists.

Shilpa Saxena, MD—She is a board certified family practice physician. In addition to having over 15 years of experience in progressive patient care and a successful functional medicine practice, Dr. Saxena is an expert in the group visit medical model. She is a fellow and guest faculty of the Arizona Center of Integrative Medicine, faculty with the Institute for Functional Medicine, and a volunteer assistant professor of family medicine and community health at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

James Levine, MD, PhD—He is a professor of medicine, physiology, and bioengineering at the Mayo Clinic, where he also holds the Richard Emslander Chair in Nutrition and Metabolism. He has authored 10 dozen scientific papers, federal expert opinions, and Move a Little Lose a Lot. Professor Levine has received over 50 national and international awards in science, including the Judson Daland prize from the American Philosophical Society. His treadmill desk won the Invention of the Future award from NASA and the Innovation of the Year award at the World Trade Fair.

Edward M. Phillips, MD—He is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School, and an adjunct scientist at the USDA-Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University. He’s a member of ACSM’s Exercise is Medicine task force, and the founder, and director of the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM). Dr. Phillip has appeared in national media, including Good Morning America, ESPN radio, and Time magazine.