Opportunities for collaboration between lifestyle medicine professionals and audiologists abound! During this featured session, Lori Carnsew, MD, will explore the six pillars of lifestyle medicine and their relationship to auditory and vestibular health, highlighting emerging evidence linking lifestyle factors to hearing and balance conditions. An expert panel will discuss integrating lifestyle medicine principles into an audiology practice, and present suggestions for how audiologists can support interdisciplinary care teams, including approaches for educating lifestyle medicine professionals about the importance of hearing screening as part of comprehensive health assessment.
Attendees will be able to:
- Describe the six Lifestyle Medicine pillars and how they relate and are associated with auditory and vestibular conditions.
- List strategies for how they can support lifestyle medicine principles and interdisciplinary care teams in practice.
- Describe actions that they can take to educate lifestyle medicine professionals on the importance for screening for hearing loss.
