Prisma Health

Ah, but Jennifer did not stop at medical education.

She also founded Exercises Medicine Greenville, a clinical to community model connecting patients from Prisma Health with medically informed physical activity programs delivered through local YMCAs.

Her lifestyle medicine education and Exercises Medicine Greenville programs were recognized as part of a national strategy surrounding the 2022 White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.

And now that work has evolved into a major implementation science effort supported by an NIH R01 examining how to make physical activity screening referral and community program work reliably across healthcare settings.

So I said, can you get me an audience with the dean? Which was a big ask of a postdoc.

And sure enough, they were able to.

I've got an audience with one of our associate deans, Bob Best, one of the vice presidents of Prisma Health, Dr. Brenda Thames, and gave them my CV and proposed that they should teach lifestyle medicine and exercise physiology and medical education.

They got that to the founding dean, had an audience with the founding dean, gave a presentation, and Dean Jerry Yuki said, let's go, because he understood.

My name is Fred Caris.

I'm an advanced endoscopist at Prisma Health and an assistant clinical professor at the Floyd School of Medicine in the University of South Carolina.

Um, I'm one of the authors in our article titled "The Impact of Confocal Endomicroscopy Combined with Standard Diagnostics in Evaluating Large Pancreatic Cystic Lesions: An International Interobserver Study." The study was performed using patients enrolled in the CLIMB study, um, at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, uh, where I did my general fellowship.

CLIMB is an NIH-funded study, um, evaluating EUS-guided needle-based confocal laser endomicroscopy or EUS NCLE, uh, in pancreatic cystic lesions.