Save the Date: LIMCON 2025 – Academic Conference on Lifestyle Medicine
📍 VENUE: UCFM TOWER, COLOMBO 08
📅 DATES: 20-21 SEPTEMBER, 2025
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Join us at LIMCON 2025, the signature academic conference organized by the Sri Lankan Society of Lifestyle Medicine (SLSLM). This two-day event will bring together global and local experts to discuss innovative, evidence-based strategies in Lifestyle Medicine — all in one place.
🌟 Theme:
Prescribing Lifestyle Medicine: Transforming Health Across the Lifespan
Full Plenary Panel Overview:
🟦 DAY 1 – 20TH SEPTEMBER
🔹 Plenary Session 1: Integrating Lifestyle Medicine to Healthcare – Local, Regional & Global Insights
- 🗣️ Dr. Samandika Saparamadu (SL)
The burden of non-communicable diseases in Sri Lanka and the promise of the LMHC model: Current trends and challenges - 🗣️ Dr. Sarathchandra Kumarawansha (SL)
From Policy to Practice: Advancing Lifestyle Interventions Through Sri Lanka’s Primary Healthcare System - 🗣️ Dr. Sheela Nambiar (IND)
Success stories of Lifestyle Medicine implementation in South Asia - 🗣️ Dr. Amy Mechley (US)
Integrating Lifestyle Medicine into Primary Care Practice
🔹 Plenary Session 2: Evolving Exercise Science – Technology, Adherence & Impact Across Lifespan
- 🗣️ Dr. Surantha Perera (SL)
Importance of movement – Building the Foundations of Health in Childhood - 🗣️ Dr. Sithira Senevirathne (SL)
Exercise for falls prevention - 🗣️ Dr. Zainab Wasim (UK)
Prescribing Movement: The Role of Exercise in Cancer Therapy and Recovery - 🗣️ Prof. Chaturanga Ranasinghe (SL)
Exercise Adherence in Remote/Hybrid Work Environments
🔹 Plenary Session 3: Integrative Nutrition – Redefining Science, Psychology & Sustainability
- 🗣️ Prof Charles Spence (UK)
Gastrophysics: the new science of eating - 🗣️ Dr. Renuka Jayathissa (SL)
Nutrition for Metabolic Health Optimization: Beyond weight management - 🗣️ Dr. Silesh Rao (US)
Plant-Based Diets and Climate Change: Intersection of nutrition and environmental sustainability - 🗣️ Dr. Colin Zhu (US)
Culinary Medicine – The Clinician’s Role in Culinary Literacy - 🗣️ Ms. Jacinda Shapiro (US)
Unlocking the evidence for Diabetes
🔹 Plenary Session 4: Resetting the Clock – Circadian Medicine in Practice
- 🗣️ Dr. Ruwanthi Jayasekera (SL)
Coping with shift work: How to enhance healthy sleep - 🗣️ Dr. Ruwan Amaratunga (CAN)
Sleep-Wake misalignment: Circadian rhythm disorders and jet lag - 🗣️ Dr. Hasna Jalou (US)
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
🟦 DAY 2 – 21ST SEPTEMBER
🔹 Plenary Session 5: Breaking the Cycle – Substance Use & Behavioural Addictions
- 🗣️ Prof. Miyuru Chandradasa (SL)
Understanding dopamine and the brain in digital addiction: How it works and how we can treat it - 🗣️ Dr. Sajeeva Ranaweera (SL)
Vapes: The toxic truth - 🗣️ Prof. Diyanath Samarasinghe (SL)
Strategies to terminate substance use habits
🔹 Plenary Session 6: From Isolation to Integration – Social Solutions for Health Resilience
- 🗣️ Dr. Liana Lianov (US)
Lifestyle Medicine and Spirituality - 🗣️ Dr. Kumanga Andrahennadi (SL)
Mindfulness - 🗣️ Dr. Amy Mechley (US)
Preventing burnout in a strained health system - 🗣️ Dr. Darren Morton (AUS)
The Loneliness Epidemic
🔹 Plenary Session 7: Community, Connection & Conscious Care – Whole-Person Health
- 🗣️ Mr. Arshad Ameer (SL)
Technology-Enabled Social Support Networks for Chronic Disease Management - 🗣️ Dr. Vinya Ariyaratne (SL)
Social Prescribing: Connecting Patients to Community Resources - 🗣️ Prof. Nalika Gunawardena (SL)
Chronic Disease Burden and WHO Roadmap to Better Health - 🗣️ The SLSLM Team (SL)
Success stories in lifestyle medicine
🔹 Plenary Session 8: Lifestyle Medicine in Clinical Practice
- 🗣️ Dr. Tashiya Mirando (Singapore)
From Hormones to Habits: Integrating Lifestyle Medicine in Women’s Health Across the Lifespan - 🗣️ Dr. Gotabhaya Ranasinghe (SL)
Lifestyle Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease - 🗣️ Dr. Simon Matthews (Spain)
Health Coaching in Clinical Practice