Elizabeth Pegg Frates, M.D.
Title Assistant Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Part-time Institution Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Department Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Address Spaulding Rehabilitation Hosp Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation 300 First Avenue Charlestown MA 02129-3109
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Title
Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Health
Institution
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Department
EH - Environmental + Occupational Medicine + Epi
Title
Contin Ed/Spec Prog Instructor
Institution
Faculty of Arts & Sciences
Department
FDCE - Other Academic
Title
Temporary Academic Course Director Lifestyle Medicine with Emeritus
Institution
Harvard Medical School
Department
Executive Education
Biography
Harvard College , Cambridge | AB | 1990 | Psychology/Biology |
Stanford Medical School, Palo Alto, CA | MD | 1996 | Medicine |
MGH, Boston | Internship | 1997 | Internal Medicine |
Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital , Boston, MA | Residency | 2000 | Physiatry |
2000
Excellence in Research
2008
Excellence in Tutorial Facilitation
2009
Excellence in Tutorial Facilitation
2010
Excellence in Tutorial Facilitation
1999
The Manuel J. Lipson Award
1996
Excellence in Research
Overview
Dr. Elizabeth (Beth) Frates is trained as a physiatrist as well as a health and wellness coach. Her expertise is lifestyle medicine, and she works to empower patients and groups of patients to reach their optimal level of wellness through adopting healthy habits such as regular physical activity, healthy diet, a resilient mindset, and stress management. As Director of Medical Student Education at the Institute of Lifestyle Medicine, Dr. Frates is the faculty advisor for the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group at Harvard Medical School. She works with all ages from teenagers to the elderly. Dr. Frates is interested in teaching, research, and clinical services around wellness. Developing programs in lifestyle medicine and the field of wellness is her passion.
Mentoring
Available: 12/09/23, Expires: 10/01/24
Teenage years are critical years. I co-authored the Teen Lifestyle Medicine Handbook and co-created the Teen Lifestyle Medicine Curriculum to help empower teens to better understand the power of stress management, sound sleep, positive social connections, routine physical activity, delicious and nutritious eating patterns, and avoidance of risky substances.
By partnering with local Boston Public Schools to deliver a dynamic set of lifestyle medicine sessions focussed on these 6 pillars, rooted in research and grounded in science, yet filled with engaging and relevant activities that resonate with the students themselves, these sessions will provide a healthy living framework that is accessible to all, effective, and fun.
The goal is to connect with a school and work to schedule a set of six sessions. Working with the Teen Lifestyle Medicine Handbook and Curriculum, the main task is developing and delivering the engaging sessions. Evaluating the impact of the sessions will be a key part of the project.
Available: 12/09/23, Expires: 10/01/24
We have a 12-session wellbeing curriculum for Medical Students we introduced in 2020 during COVID, with the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group President at that time, Alexis Smith MD who is now a psychiatry resident. Her publication on the program titled WholeHeartedMD is available through the American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine.
We are looking to create an interactive, effective, engaging, fun, transformational program for medical students that can help them to adopt and sustain healthy lifestyles throughout medical school and beyond. The goal is to help medical students navigate through their four years with confidence, connection, equanimity, and wellbeing.
The project seeks to provide what medical students want and need. Thus, it relies on input from current students studying, learning, and training at HMS. Providing concrete tools and skills is a major goal. Sharing lifestyle medicine principles and practices will be part of the program. We will build on the work of two HMS students who co-authored the Lifestyle Medicine Pocket Guide released in September 2023.
Available: 12/09/23, Expires: 10/01/24
Lifestyle Medicine is part of one of the major themes at HMS--"Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine." This scholarly project invites students to be involved in the creation of a lifestyle medicine elective that could be hosted on the Connect Platform of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM). The ACLM is the medical professional society for physicians and other healthcare providers who use the six pillars of lifestyle medicine in addition to traditional medical therapies. The six pillars include routine physical activity, a whole food plant predominant eating pattern, sound sleep, stress management, positive social connections, and avoidance of risky substances.
Building on the work of previous HMS students who have worked to craft PowerPoints in these six pillars, the project is open for the development of application activities, short videos, and other teaching strategies that encourage engagement with the material, reflection, practice, and mastery of the skills needed to empower patients to adopt and sustain healthy living patterns throughout life.
As the elective is targeted to medical students, the input of the current medical students is key. Innovative teaching strategies and engaging activities will be important for the adoption and success of this elective nationally.
There will be plenty of opportunity for creativity and fun in the development of this elective.
Bibliographic
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