Starting Early: Building Healthier Futures for Children and Families

Thank you.

Welcome to

Flip Your Script,

the vodcast from the American College of Lifestyle Medicine that's all about clinicians redefining care through innovation, leadership, and lifestyle medicine.

My name is Dr. Padmaja Patel, and I'm the current president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and serve as chief medical officer of Nudge Health.

The future of healthcare isn't being written in policy briefs or press releases.

It's being written by clinicians who dare to prescribe differently, by leaders who rebuild systems from the ground up, by patients who reclaim their health when someone finally gave them the right tools.

Each episode of Flip Your Script brings you five key takeaways from the people living that story, because the best way to change medicine is to hear from those already doing it.

In this episode, we are honored to be joined by the leaders of ACLM's Child and Adolescent Member Interest Group.

Dr. Erin Brackbill is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine in Greenville and Prisma Health Upstate.

She serves as co-chair of the South Carolina AAP Pediatric Healthy Lifestyles Committee.

Dr. Brackbill works at the Center for Pediatric Medicine, a pediatric resident teaching clinic serving the largest population of publicly insured children in South Carolina.

She comes to lifestyle medicine with a health equity lens and loves using lifestyle medicine to help children and families to live their healthiest lives.

Dr. Blakely Amati is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville, and the Medical Director of the Prisma Health Bradshaw Institute for Community Child Health and Advocacy.

She's a leader in the South Carolina American Academy of Pediatrics and in the Carolinas Collaborative for Child Advocacy and Resident Education.

She has worked with Dr. Erin Brackbill to develop a lifestyle medicine program in their clinic to address childhood obesity, led quality improvement workshops for interested pediatric practices in South Carolina, and helped develop a healthy lifestyle subcommittee for the South Carolina chapter of the AAP.

Dr. Michelle Loy is an internationally recognized quadruple bowl certified physician.

She is a clinical professor at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, Director of the Griffin HealthSpan and Vitality Center, and the Director of Integrative Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and Wellness across the NYU Langone Enterprise.

She provides integrative medicine and lifestyle medicine consultations at NYU Langone to solve challenging clinical problems across the spectrum of general and subspecialty pediatric, adolescent, and adult medicine.

She serves on various advisory boards, including T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Medical Acupuncture and the International Network of Integrative Pediatrics.

Welcome, ladies.

How are you all doing today?

Doing well.

Thank you so much for having us.

Wonderful.

I'm glad you all could take the time.

And I'm so excited for this conversation.

So as we always like to start with the journey, and I want to really hear from each of you.

Pediatric lifestyle medicine wasn't necessarily a field most of us encountered in medical training.

So I would love to hear from each of you, what first drew you to lifestyle medicine? And when did you realize that supporting children often means supporting the entire family?