February 4, 2020
1:00 - 1:45 p.m.
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Well the title says it all..... We have ideas, plans, wishes and goals. We even know what a healthy lifestyle looks like and the pieces that go into it. We may even make a good start at the changes we seek to make.
What gets in the way of us becoming the person we wish to be? This session will lay it all out and help you assemble the building blocks for long-term success.
Our Presenter: Dr. Michael Vallis is a registered health psychologist, a Health Behaviour Change Consultant and Associate Professor in Family Medicine at Dalhousie University. His main areas of expertise are diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular risk and gastroenterology. He has worked in the public health system for 35 years and is now working as a consultant and doing private practice. He regularly supervises clinical and academic students at Dalhousie and is active in research on motivation, behavioural change and psychosocial adaptation to chronic disease. He consults nationally as well as internationally and is heavily involved in journal editing, clinical practice guidelines and academic publications.