80% of chronic diseases are preventable. With Cardiovascular disease and Hypertension playing a significant role in morbidity and mortality worldwide, a lifestyle and integrative medicine approach to population care has the potential to arrest the decades-long rise in the prevalence of chronic conditions and their burdensome costs. Patients are seeking more integrative ways to reduce medications which can have unwanted side effects and can be cost prohibitive. Patient and provider satisfaction often results from a lifestyle/integrative medicine approach, which strongly aligns the field with the “quintuple aim” of better health outcomes, lower cost, improved patient satisfaction, improved provider well-being, and advancement of health equity, in addition to its alignment with planetary health and global sustainability. Lifestyle medicine is the foundation for a redesigned, value-based and equitable healthcare delivery system, leading to whole person health and improved provider well-being. In an era of increased physician burnout, these practices are known to improve provider satisfaction. This presentation will focus on evidence-based topics such as  mind-body practices (yoga, mindfulness) as well as integrative modalities (acupuncture) and  the pillars of lifestyle medicine (nutrition, mainly a whole-food plant based diet) and the data supporting cardiovascular health outcomes. At the end of this lecture, participants will be able to discuss evidence based integrative/lifestyle therapies for cardiovascular health and how to practically incorporate these into their practice.

Mariah Stump completed her MPH from Johns Hopkins University, School of Public Health and her Medical Degree (MD) from the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She completed her residency in general internal medicine at Brown University, in Providence RI, USA. She completed a two-year fellowship in Integrative Medicine through the Andrew Weil Center of Integrative Medicine at University of Arizona and is additionally board certified in Integrative Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. She is a medical acupuncturist and is a member of the American Academy of Medical Acupuncture. She is a national lecturer in Integrative Medicine for the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine and is a national workshop leader in Narrative Medicine and Physician Well-being through the American College of Physicians (ACP). She is a leader in burnout prevention for physicians and has been interviewed and featured in the French film “Burn-Out, Les voix de la guérison” (Breaking Point: Inside the World of Burnout, 2024). She is the leader of several well-being initiatives for students, medical trainees and faculty at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University where she teaches and develops curricula for Integrative and Lifestyle Medicine to medical students and residents.