STFM PODCAST - Academic Medicine Leadership Lessons
What separates a good leader from a great one? These in-depth interviews with some of family medicine's most influential leaders provide insight into pivotal experiences that boosted leadership skills and provided unprecedented opportunities for personal growth. This series of podcasts explores the development of leadership skills, including clarity, courage, decisiveness, humility, and passion, as a means to facilitating growth during times when healthcare professionals are addressing:• Motivation and Mentorship• Burnout and Transitions• Milestones and Meaning• Barriers and BureaucracyThis series of podcasts is sponsored by the Society of Teachers of Family Medicine (STFM), the academic home for family medicine educators.
STFM PODCAST - Academic Medicine Leadership Lessons
Lifestyle Medicine and Nutritional Healing with Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH
In this episode, Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH, shares his experience in nutritional healing and lifestyle medicine across his career in family medicine, particularly in targeting insulin resistance. Dr Scherger begins with his early years specializing in disease prevention in the late 1970s and leads us into the present time, where new developments in nutritional science, genetic understanding, and surprising recommendations often keep family physicians on their toes. With a vital passion for scientific wellness, Dr Scherger shares personal stories and data-rich resources for those who want to reverse the course of disease in their patients through nutrition and lifestyle changes.
Hosted by Saria Saccocio, MD, MHA, FAAFP
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Resources:
- The Carbohydrate-Insulin Model: A Physiological Perspective on the Obesity Pandemic - American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Six Ways to Take Control of Your Health: Lifestyle Medicine - American College of Lifestyle Medicine
- Book - 40 Years in Family Medicine by Joseph E. Scherger
- Book - Lean and Fit: A Doctor’s Journey to Healthy Nutrition and Greater Wellness by Joseph E. Scherger, MD, MPH
- Book - Wheat Belly:Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis, MD
- Book - Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar –Your Brain’s Silent Killers by David Perlmutter, MD
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