Wellness Webinars

Develop a strategic clinical model that addresses complex functional medicine cases by focusing on core physiological systems like tissue oxygenation, metabolic flexibility, and stress chemistry, with practical insights from a leading expert in the field.In this webinar, you'll learn how to:• Uncover the Pitfalls: Identify common issues with disorganized or overly standardized clinical models in functional medicine.• Master the Hierarchy: Understand the importance of prioritizing physiological systems like tissue oxygenation and metabolic flexibility in complex cases.• Customize Your Approach: Learn how to create a flexible yet structured clinical model tailored to each patient’s unique needs.• Enhance Clinical Outcomes: Discover how an organized clinical model can improve patient outcomes and optimize your practice’s efficiency.• Apply Real-World Examples: Analyze case studies that illustrate the impact of a well-thought-out clinical model on complex patient cases.Meet The SpeakerDr. Steven Noseworthy | DC, DACNB, DCCNDr. Noseworthy, DC, DACNB, DCCN is the innovator and creator of the Autonomous Health approach to health and wellness. With more than two decades of experience in natural medicine, Dr. Noseworthy has, since 2008, emerged as one of the leading functional medicine experts, and has lectured to thousands of alternative and conventional health practitioners in the US and internationally.

What is Social Prescribing? Join Social Prescribing USA for the launch of a new quarterly webinar series to learn about how social prescribing utilizes the arts, nature, volunteerism, and local community organizations as medicine for patients of all ages. In this introductory webinar, you will gain an overview of social prescribing, what success has looked like in other countries, and hear testimonials and perspectives from providers, organizers and students contributing to the movement. Attendees will also learn how to join the movement and take action today!Speakers include Alan Siegel, MD (Medical Director and Co-Founder at Social Prescribing USA); Dr. Bogdan Chiva Giurca (Global Alliance & Clinical Champion Lead at the National Academy of Social Prescribing); Hathor-Ra Adwoa (Black Focused Social Prescribing Navigator at Taibu Community Health Centre); Rachel Chen (First-year medical student at Harvard Medical School and Founder of U.S. Social Prescribing Student Collective).

During the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy, we will explore the connection between economic security and family well-being and how to address disparities and challenges.  We’ll look beyond achieving and sustaining positive personal and family financial outcomes by exploring how various conditions affect overall economic security. We’ll delve into underlying factors relating to social dynamics, environmental influences, and community characteristics. We’ll give special focus to how these factors relate to health and wellness as a foundation of economic security.  This webinar will help to empower service providers to leverage their knowledge, skills, and available resources to effectively promote health and well-being.Learning Objectives:• Review the various factors, often called the “social drivers of health,” or SDOH, that influence health and well-being.• Promote a mindset that empowers providers to focus on understanding the root causes of health and wellness challenges and to be change agents for positive outcomes.• Recognize that such a mindset requires a holistic or ecological approach to understanding how underlying contextual factors, individual circumstances, institutions, and programs interact with each other.• Examine how various organizations and institutions are fostering efforts to encourage awareness and action to address health disparities and to promote well-being – with a special focus on the U.S. military and the Cooperative Extension system.• Identify various state and federal programs that can contribute to military family health and wellness, with a special focus on TRICARE, VA health benefits, Medicaid, and Medicare.• Consider possible new programs and policy developments relevant to military family health and well-being.A case story is used throughout the course and webinars in the 2024 Military Family Readiness Academy. This case story provides an opportunity to examine resources and services within the Military Family Readiness System. This family’s example asks service providers to consider the skills they need to support family well-being through the lens of economic security. Read the case story here.Presenters: Christopher Plein and Keith G. Tidball

Losing a partner is a life-changing experience. We draw on numerous datasets to examine differences between widowed and partnered older women and to provide a comprehensive picture of well-being in widowhood. Most importantly, our analysis accounts for time use in widowhood, an aspect which has not been studied previously. Based on data from several European countries we trace the evolution of well-being of women who become widowed by comparing them with their matched non-widowed ‘statistical twins’ and examine the role of an exceptionally broad set of potential moderators of widowhood’s impact on well-being. We confirm a dramatic decrease in mental health and life satisfaction after the loss of a partner, followed by a slow recovery. An extensive set of controls recorded prior to widowhood, including detailed family ties and social networks, provides little help in explaining the deterioration in well-being. Unique data from time-diaries kept by older women from several European countries and the U.S. tell us why: the key factor behind widows’ reduced well-being is increased time spent alone.Presented by Dr. Michal Myck, Director, Centre for Economic Analysis, CenEA.

Skin, Healing and Immune Response Chairperson Prof. Andrea R. Genazzani. Speakers: Prof. Frederick Naftolin Estrogens and Skin Prof. Mark Brincat The effects of Hormonal Contraception including COC, And HRT on Collagen turnover.

Struggling with back pain? Whether it’s a nagging twinge, persistent throb or a sudden sharpness, you're not alone—80% of the population experiences back pain at some point in their lives. Meet Megan Hill, Doctor of Physical Therapy, your guide to demystifying low back pain. Get practical tips and discover how Thrive, the innovative digital physical therapy program from Sword Health, empowers you to treat and prevent back pain—all from the comfort of home.Agenda:Practical pain-relief tips to prevent low back painCommon back pain mythsHow Thrive WorksLive Q&A with Dr. Megan HillSpeaker: Dr. Megan Hill, PT, DPT (Sword Health).

Presented by Dr Marlee Bower (The Matilda Centre for Research in Mental Health and Substance Use, The University of Sydney) and Carlos Duarte (clinical psychologist, Haymarket Foundation Drug and Alcohol Service)Dr Marlee Bower is a Research Fellow at the Matilda Centre who is interested in the broader social determinants of mental health, particularly in understanding loneliness and isolation amongst marginalised individuals and how this relates to the built environment. Marlee will be presenting findings from her PhD research, completed in 2019, which examined the experience of loneliness amongst Australians with lived experience of homelessness. Prior to working at the Matilda Centre, Marlee worked in government research and strategy in prison and homelessness settings.Mr Carlos Duarte is a clinical psychologist who has been working at the Haymarket Foundation AOD Counselling Service in inner-city Sydney for almost 20 years. Carlos generally sees 95 clients in a year, the majority of whom are in recovery. Approximately half have issues with alcohol, followed by methamphetamine use. The service is free to disadvantaged people who have co-occurring AOD and mental health issues including people who are homeless, Indigenous, from culturally and linguistically diverse communities, those leaving custodial sentences, people who have experienced violence and those from gender and sexually diverse communities. The benchmarking for the service’s PREMS (‘Yes’) survey – a requirement for all AOD services – exceeds all those of the Department of Health.This webinar will provide participants with an understanding of:The prevalence of substance use and loneliness amongst people experiencing homelessnessHow loneliness impacts the wellbeing of people experiencing homelessnessRisk and protective factors for loneliness amongst people experiencing homelessnessHow AOD services can help people experiencing homelessness and co-occurring loneliness or substance use

Despite being a key treatment option for perimenopause and menopause, less than 1 in 5 women of menopausal age are on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), and this figure drastically reduces for Black and Asian women.In this webinar, we’re joined by menopause expert, Dr Sue Mann and menopause advocate, Madhu Kapoor to take a deep dive into HRT. We’ll discuss some of the common and lesser-known symptoms of menopause, explore how and why HRT is an effective treatment, and consider pros and cons of different types of HRT.We will also look at the risks associated with HRT and sort out fact from fiction so that you’re empowered with the information to help yourself, or someone you know, to make informed decisions about your treatment options.Have a question for one of our speakers? Email events@wellbeingofwomen.org.uk before the event and they’ll do their best to answer your questions during the session.Speakers: Dr Sue Mann, Madhu Kapoor

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A Realistic Guide to Working from Home: Do you work from home and find it challenging to get stuff done? Join us in this webinar to learn ways to combat isolation, boost your mental well-being, and how to take breaks at your desk to increase your productivity and improve your focus.