Upcoming Conferences – Save the Dates!

• First Annual Conference in Menopause & Aging live webinar for healthcare practitioners and researchers | March 6-7, 2025 | register

• Healthy Aging 2025: Mind and Body Conference sponsored by Stanford Lifestyle Medicine and The Longevity Project | May 5, 2025 | register

Upcoming Events

• "Nourish to Flourish" Free Monthly Webinar Series Hosted by the Stanford Lifestyle and Weight Management Center | March-December 2025 | register

• Re-Thinking Food – From Plate to Planet | Christopher Gardner | April 24, 2025 | register

SLM and SPRC Team Members in the News

• What is Rucking? Understanding the Fitness Trend Taking the Internet by Storm | Michael Fredericson | read more

• What’s the Deal with Red Light Therapy? | Michael Fredericson, Jamie Zeitzer | read more

• New Netflix Series Highlights the Gaps in the Modern Medical System | Jonathan Bonnet | read more

• Transforming Obesity Care with Lifestyle Medicine | Jonathan Bonnet | read more

• Advocating for Unhoused People On and Off the Court | Sean Nguyen | read more

• No Buzz Booze: The History and Science of Going Low- or No-Alcohol | Molly Bowdring | read more

• Is Fake Meat Better for You than Real Meat? | Christopher Gardner | read more

• RFK Jr. thinks seed oils are poisoning you. Here’s the truth. | Christopher Gardner | read more

• 10 Ways to Eat Better | Christopher Gardner | read more

SLM and SPRC Team Member Publications

• Pretreatment Predictors of Weight Loss in a 12-Month Behavioral Obesity Treatment: A Signal Detection Analysis of DIETFITS | Michele L. Patel, Christopher Gardner | read more

• Unlocking insights: Clinical Associations from the Largest 6-Minute Walk Test Collection Via the My Heart Counts Cardiovascular Health Study, a Fully Digital Smartphone Platform | Marily Oppezzo | read more

• Fine-tuning Large Language Models in Behavioral Psychology for Scalable Physical Activity Coaching | Marily Oppezzo | read more

• Yes I Can! Exploring the Impact of Self-Efficacy in a Digital Weight Loss Intervention | Michele L. Patel | read more

• Evaluating a digital prehabilitation tool in patients with colorectal surgery: protocol for a multisite randomised controlled trial | Cindy Kin | read more

• Genetically Predicted Lipoprotein(A) Associates with Coronary Artery Plaque Severity Independent of Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol | Shoa L. Clarke | read more

• Unveiling the Genetic Landscape of Coronary Artery Disease Through Common and Rare Structural Variants | Shoa L. Clarke | read more

• Type 2 Diabetes Polygenic Risk Score Demonstrates Context-Dependent Effects and Associations with Type 2 Diabetes-Related Risk Factors and Complications Across Diverse Populations | Shoa L. Clarke | read more

• Leveraging High-Throughput Data to estimate Leukocyte Telomere Length in the Million Veteran Program | Shoa L. Clarke | read more

• Deep Learning Chest X-Ray Age, Epigenetic Aging Clocks and Associations with Age-Related Subclinical Disease in the Project Baseline Health Study | David Maron | read more

• A randomized controlled trial evaluation of a smoking cessation and physical activity intervention delivered via telemedicine in the Norton Sound region of Alaska | Judith Prochaska, Marily Oppezzo | read more

• Inpatient Use of Guideline-Directed Medical Therapy During Heart Failure Hospitalizations Among Community-Based Health System | Alex Sandhu | read more

• Metabolic Phenotype and Risk of Obesity-Related Cancers in the Women’s Health Initiative | Marcia Stefanick | read more

• Adherence to a digital therapeutic mediates the relationship between momentary self-regulation and health risk behaviors | Michaela Kiernan | read more

• Sex Distribution of Clinical Trial Participants: How Often Are Women Excluded? | Robert M. Kaplan | read more

• 2025 Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics: A Report of US and Global Data From the American Heart Association | Latha Palaniappan | read more

• Artificial Intelligence in Ischemic Heart Disease Prevention | Fatima Rodriguez | read more

• Genetics of cardiometabolic disease progression | Joshua W. Knowles | read more

Seeking Research Study Participants

Interested in drinking less alcohol? A Stanford research team is testing a telehealth treatment program and is seeking participants for a study. To learn more, email surveys4health@stanford.edu.