Plenary: Crystalizing a Vision: Leading Psychiatry Forward and Lifestyle for Positive Mental and Physical Health

Crystalizing a Vision: Leading Psychiatry Forward - APA’s new CEO and Medical Director, Marketa M. Wills, M.D., M.B.A., presents her vision, highlighting opportunities for collaboration between ACLP and APA members to unleash synergies between the associations during this important moment for psychiatry.

Lifestyle for Positive Mental and Physical Health - Life style factors such as kinds of physical exercise and activities, restorative sleep, types of food one consumes, stress amelioration, social connectedness, and avoiding harmful substances, have significant effects on prevention or improvement of various mental and physical disorders, and promoting mental and physical wellness, fitness and vitality. This lecture will discuss the evidence base for the effectiveness of some of these factors, and the underlying biological mechanisms. The objective of this lecture is to encourage clinicians to incorporate specific lifestyle interventions in their practice, in addition to psychotherapy, pharmacotherapy, neuromodulation and socio-economic interventions.