Penn Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group

Thank you to everyone who came to our screening of Code Blue last night! We loved meeting you all and had a great discussion about the film. See you soon at our next event in October!

Don't forget about our screening of Code Blue this Wednesday (September 7th) from 7-9pm in JMEC Law Auditorium! Free dinner from Hip City Veg will be provided 🥗

Join us for our first event of the year on September 7th! We'll be watching and discussing the documentary Code Blue. We're so excited to meet you all!

Please register here: https://forms.gle/Lz3BDhFvcQtLWC9A8

Meet Amelie Warneryd, one of our co-presidents!
Amelie is an undergraduate junior double majoring in Biology and French and Francophone Studies and minoring in Chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania. Amelie enjoys her work as an EMT, both on campus and in the greater Philly area, and she's so excited to help lead Penn LMIG in the fall. Outside of class and work, she likes to read historical fiction and cook with friends.

Meet Caroline Conlan, one of our co-presidents!
Caroline is a second year medical student at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, with a B.A. in both Biostatistics and Biology from the University of Virginia. She currently uses her background in data analysis and computer programming to research traumatic brain injury with Dr. Randy Swanson in the University of Pennsylvania Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Caroline spent four years as an adaptive ski instructor and is passionate about disability health. In her free time, she enjoys swimming, swing dancing, and trying out new recipes.

Meet Dr. Randel Swanson, our faculty advisor!
Dr. Swanson is an Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn), with sub-specialty certification in Brain Injury Medicine. Dr. Swanson’s clinical practice centers on the Neurological Rehabilitation of patients with Acquired Brain Injury, both at Penn and within the Polytrauma/TBI System of Care at the Corporal Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center. His goal is to assist patients in achieving optimal return of neurological function following all forms of Acquired Brain Injury through a combination of clinical practice and scientific research. Importantly, Dr. Swanson is passionate about the utilization of Lifestyle Medicine in neurorehabilitation to promote brain health following an Acquired Brain Injury. To this end, Dr. Swanson is a funded investigator within the VA's Center for Neurotrauma, Neurodegeneration and Restoration (CNNR) and Penn's Center for Brain Injury and Repair (CBIR), and is actively investigating his central hypothesis that cerebral microvascular pathology is a common endophenotype between Traumatic Brain Injury, Cardiovascular disease, and Dementia [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35774720/].

Welcome to the Penn LMIG FB page! Our board has been hard at work over the summer, and we're so excited to start our events for the Penn community in the fall. In the meantime, check out the 6 tenets of lifestyle medicine!