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Press Release
03/10/2021
Education with a Purpose
85 percent of chronic disease today is caused by unhealthy lifestyle choices, according to the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. The World Health Organization says 80% of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes and 40% of cancer could be prevented, primarily with improvements to diet and lifestyle.
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An introduction to "AIM to Prevent" TM program
Mr. Amit Akkad, Director ICC and Lifestyle Program Ambassador
on Saturday March 13th, 2021 at 10 AM Eastern US time
What you will learn
• Leading causes of chronic diseases
• What is Lifestyle Medicine?
• Role of nutrition in the prevention, treatment and reversal of chronic diseases.
• Role of physical activity, sleep and other essential characteristics in the prevention, treatment and reversal of chronic diseases
Registration is required to attend. Click here to register
Please feel free to email us at lifestyle@ouricc.org if you have any questions about the webinar or the topics to be covered. Looking forward to seeing you soon!
ICC Lifestyle Management Program Team
www.ouricc.org
Dr Shikha Merchia, Diplomate of American Board of Lifestyle Medicine
Shikha Merchia, MD, FACP, diplABLM is Board Certified by the American College of Physicians and a diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. She provides primary care / Internal Medicine, with a focus on Lifestyle Medicine and obesity Medicine.
She has been practicing Internal Medicine and primary care since 1998. Her clinical interests include management of obesity and its related conditions and utilizing lifestyle changes to accomplish this. In furthering these interests, she recently became Board certified in Lifestyle Medicine.
She has completed a Plant Based Nutrition certificate from eCornell Center for Nutrition Studies with Dr. T. Colin Campbell. She has completed Harvard Medical School’s Culinary Health Education Fundamentals (CHEF) Coaching an evidence-based program focused on culinary coaching-–a novel approach to improve nutrition that combines culinary training, health coaching principles, and telemedicine tools and resources. She has also done the Complete Health Improvement Program (CHIP) a powerful disease reversal solution. It disrupts rising chronic disease rates and has driven positive health outcomes for tens of thousands of participants nationwide. This proven approach enables participants to make fundamental lifestyle changes and lowers key risk factors within 12 weeks.
Dr. Merchia is a lifelong vegetarian and has started a plant-based diet for the past 9 months. She has a keen interest in cooking and creating recipes. One of her recipes was featured in the CHEF coaching Newsletter of the institute of lifestyle medicine at Harvard Medical School. Her inspiration for creating recipes comes from her parents, who have been collecting and experimenting with recipes since she was little.
Dr Vikas Merchia, Former President IMANE 2018 and Diplomate of American Board of Lifestyle Medicine
Vikas Merchia, MD, FACOG, FPMRS, diplABLM is Board Certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ABOG) in both general Obstetrics and Gynecology and subspecialty certified in Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery (Urogynecology). He is a recent Diplomate of the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. He practices in the South Shore of Boston in Brockton Massachusetts. He has his own private practice called ESP Medical LLC.
He founded ESP Medical in 2011 to provide the best possible care to his patients. Seeing his patients suffering from multiple medical conditions, being on long list of medications with their inherent side effects he was inspired to help them improve their quality and longevity of life. To prevent and reverse chronic disease without the harmful side effects of medicine he recently become a diplomate of American Board of Lifestyle Medicine.
Mr Amit Akkad, ICC Director and Lifestyle Program Ambassador
Mr. Amit Akkad is an Experienced Global Services Executive, currently working as VP of Operations at Ava Robotics with proven track record of growing profitable service revenues with excellent customer satisfaction. Recognized as an IT services expert. A leader with excellent strategic, analytical, communications and operational skills.
Mr. Akkad is Director of ICC and Lifestyle Ambassador serving community over the past couple of years. He also works with multiple organizations to educate and inspire children of rural communities (Adivasi) in India for past few years.
Please feel free to email us at lifestyle@ouricc.org if you have any questions about the webinar or the topics to be covered.
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Dr Shikha Merchia
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Dr Vikas Merchia
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Mr Amit Akkad