House Call - An Affinity Strategies Podcast Claire Vincent

Barbie Boules is a registered dietitian, certified health coach, and meditation teacher with over 22 years of experience. In her practice she works as private coach, community educator, passionate speaker, popular corporate wellness programmer, and respected dietetic intern preceptor. She’s had the privilege of counseling thousands of men and women around the country on their journey to better health
Barbie specializes in the unique needs of women over 4o. She focuses on helping her clients achieve optimal metabolic and cognitive fitness without the unnecessary and unsustainable rules of fad dieting, and rather through a genuine understanding of what each client truly needs to transform their health for good.
Barbie takes an integrative approach that's evidence-based and holistic, emphasizing nourishing foods, quality sleep, daily movement, and developing solid stress skills. She is passionate about a mindful approach to healthy aging, and executes a deep knowledge of the psychology and neuroscience behind our behavior surrounding food.
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House Call Episode 16

Dr. Litjen (L.J) Tan’s full bio:
Prior to joining the Immunization Action Coalition (IAC), Dr. Tan was the director of medicine and public health at the American Medical Association (AMA) a position he held since 2008. From 1997 to 2008, he was the AMA's director of infectious disease, immunology, and molecular medicine.
Dr. Tan was a voting member of the Department of Health and Human Services' National Vaccine Advisory Committee from 2009 to 2013, where he served on the adult immunization, vaccine safety, and healthcare worker immunization working groups, and chaired the immunization infrastructure working group. He also served for more than ten years as the AMA's liaison to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, where he served on the influenza, pneumococcal, zoster, and adult immunization working groups.
He co-founded and currently co-chairs the National Adult and Influenza Immunization Summit. He continues to advise the ESWI Flu Summit and the APACI Flu Summit. He serves or has served on the steering committees/advisory boards of the 317 Coalition, the Adult Vaccine Access Coalition (AVAC), the Unity (United for Adolescent Vaccination) Consortium, the National Network for Immunization Information, and the National Viral Hepatitis Roundtable. Dr. Tan also serves, or has served on the National Quality Forum’s Adult Immunizations Expert Committee, the Pharmacy Quality Alliance’s Adult Immunization Working Group, and numerous national and international expert and technical advisory committees, including panels for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, on issues ranging from vaccine hesitancy, to immunization quality measurement development, to adult immunizations, to immunization access and delivery. In 2007, he founded the National Immunization Congress and organized its 2007 and 2010 meetings.
Dr. Tan is an editor for Vaccine, BMC Infectious Diseases, Medscape Infectious Diseases, and a member of the ESCMID Vaccine Study Group and has published more than 50 peer-reviewed articles.
Resources:
www.immunize.org
www.cdc.org
www.ama-assn.org
www.izsummitpartners.org
www.vaccinateyourfamily.org
www.goodhealthwins.org

Medicine and Technology with Don Nelson

In addition to her corporate experiences, she was awarded certification in Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction from UC San Diego’s Center for Mindfulness in the school of medicine and from the SIY Global Leadership Institute in emotional intelligence, neuroscience, and mindfulness. At Inseus, she and her team are dedicated to transforming lives through evidence-based leadership development and wellbeing programs, consulting, and speaking engagements, grounded in science and practice. Inseus works regularly with businesses, non-profits, hospitals, patient-facing communities, and government agencies. Ashley believes that mindfulness is accessible to everyone, transforms lives, and has the power to change our communities in ways that are deeply beneficial and healing. In her spare time, you can find Ashley biking the backroads of rural Michigan, rowing on the Chicago River for Recovery on Water with fellow breast cancer survivors or spending quality time with her husband and daughters.  

§ For information about Inseus, their programming, and an extensive library of mindfulness resources: https://www.inseus.com
§ Jon Kabat-Zinn: best known for his work on Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) and author of Full Catastrophe Living and Wherever You Go, There You Are and other works
§ Dr. Kristin Neff: extensive research on mindful self-compassion with the University of Wisconsin and author of Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
§ Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute: https://siyli.org

Episode 12