Ornish national medical director to lead Healthy Lifestyle seminar July 23
Dr. Ben Brown, medical director of Ornish Lifestyle Medicine in Sausalito, Calif., will speak at a Healthy Lifestyle seminar with workshops to take place from 9 a.m. until 12:50 p.m., Saturday, July 23, at Delaware Technical Community College in Georgetown.
His presentation is one of the free Rock Your Life Community Seminars that are part of Beebe Healthcare’s 100th anniversary celebrations. Though the seminar is free and open to the public, attendees must register online at www.BeebeHCE.org or call 302-644-2900.
The event will begin with a group meditation exercise and is focused on providing relaxation and valuable takeaway tidbits for living a healthier lifestyle. Brown will review the Ornish Reversal Program and help attendees understand how to use this information to improve their own heart health. Following Brown's keynote seminar, he will be joined by Beebe Healthcare Ornish Reversal Program educators to engage attendees to participate in workshop sessions to inspire them to live their healthiest life. Attendees will enjoy round-robin breakout sessions featuring experts in the program who will teach the importance of healthy lifestyle practices such as exercise, meditation, stress management, supportive relationships, healthy cooking, nutrition and more.
Brown graduated from the University of California San Francisco medical school and then from the UCSF residency program in Santa Rosa. He worked with Ornish and the Program for Reversing Heart Disease as one of the lead doctors on the lifestyle educational retreats from 1994 through 1999. He returned to the program in 2014 to help steward its expansion. Besides serving as medical director, he also is lead trainer at the national Ornish Reversal Program team training retreats and medical writer for the Ornish Living Magazine. He is double boarded in family medicine and in integrative medicine, and has written and lectured extensively on physician well-being and facilitating lifestyle change in the office visit. He is an award-winning photographer, writer and humanitarian and is the author of “50 Simple Things to Save Your Life During Residency.”
Ornish pioneered and researched the unique diet and lifestyle changes that have enabled thousands of patients with heart disease to recover their health. Beebe Healthcare is a proud provider of the Ornish Reversal Program. This program is nationally recognized—through the results of more than 35 years of peer-reviewed, published research—for preventing, stopping, and even reversing the progression of heart disease.
Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer in the United States. Heart and vascular disease are all too common in Delaware. More than 12 percent of people in Sussex County have diabetes, which is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Nearly two-thirds of the population in Sussex County is overweight or obese, which also is a risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
For more information, call 302-645-3514.
SESSION AND
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
9 a.m. to 9:15 a.m. - Centering Group Meditation
9:15 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. – Dr. Brown’s speech - How to Improve Your Heart Health!
Rotating workshop sessions:
Nutrition/Healthy Meal Preparations (with samples), Stress Management, Fitness, and Love and Support
Session 1
11 a.m. to 11:20 a.m.
Session 2
11:30 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.
Session 3
Noon to 12:20 p.m.
Session 4
12:30 p.m. to 12:50 p.m.
