Can what you eat determine how long, and how well, you live? Join us for the 3rd Annual Patrick & Marguerite Sung Symposium: Wellness & Longevity on Friday, April 24, 2020, 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., to learn the answer to this question and more. Registration is now open. Organized by the GW Office of Integrative Medicine and Health, this online only, free event is open to the public.
The presentation topics are: Nutrition, Genes, and Longevity; Moving from Precision Medicine to Next Generation Healthcare; A Lifestyle Medicine Framework for Comprehensive Wellness; and Wearables in the Workplace.
The Sung Symposium, featuring the Theodore and Cynthia Birnbaum Memorial Speaker, promotes the use of Integrative Medicine. This annual event teaches health care providers and consumers about Integrative Medicine and promotes the spread of research into the benefits of combining conventional medicine with evidence-based complementary medicine to promote optimal health and wellness.
We are pleased to announce that this year's speakers are:
Valter Longo, PhD, year's Theodore and Cynthia Birnbaum Memorial Speaker, is the developer of the fasting mimicking diet and author of The Longevity Diet. Dr. Longo is the Edna M. Jones Professor of Gerontology and Biological Sciences and director of the Longevity Institute at the University of Southern California –Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and the Longevity and Cancer Program at the IFOM Institute of Molecular Oncology in Milan, Italy. Dr. Longo is known for his studies on the role of fasting and nutrient response genes on cellular protection aging and diseases and for proposing that longevity is regulated by similar genes and mechanisms in many eukaryotes. He will give a lecture on nutrition, intermittent fasting, and the role they play in living a longer, healthier life.
Joel Dudley, PhD, executive vice president for Precision Health at the Mount Sinai Health System. An internationally recognized investigator in translational bioinformatics and precision medicine, Dr. Dudley is an associate professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences at The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and founding director of the Institute for Next Generation Healthcare. In 2014, he was named as one of the 100 most creative people in business by Fast Company magazine. He is co-author of the book "Exploring Personal Genomics." He will give a talk on the nexus of -omics, digital health, scientific wellness, and healthcare delivery.
Kaylan A. Baban, MD, MPH, is the inaugural chief wellness officer for the GW Medical Enterprise - GW Hospital, the GW Medical Faculty Associates, and the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr. Baban is an assistant professor of Medicine at the GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences and director of the Lifestyle Medicine Program at GW Medical Faculty Associates. She is board-certified in Preventive Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine with a focus on holistic care and patient empowerment.
Nick Patel, founder and president of Wellable, a wellness technology platform that enables organizations to create programs that help employees thrive by engaging them in holistic well-being educational modules and activities. He is also an adjunct professor, Department of Clinical Research and Leadership, GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences.
After the lectures, Drs. Longo, Dudley, Baban, and Mr. Patel will participate in a panel discussion and Q&A session.
