The Hunger Habit: Methods to Transform our Relationship with Eating (2024)
A recording of this program for CE credit can be found here.
There is no charge to attend this program. Please click on the red button above to register. You may be asked to create an account before you register. You will come back to this site to claim your CE credits after the webinar.
How we can help ourselves, and our patients, heal unhealthy relationships with food and eating.
Leveraging findings from habit change science as well as mindfulness practice, the behavior change model Dr. Jud Brewer will describe involves:
- identifying the habit patterns that tether individuals to unhealthy eating habits;
- interrupting those habit patterns using awareness (as opposed to willpower, which has not been shown to sustain long-term behavior change);
- using built-in mechanisms of the brain to overwrite those unhealthy habit patterns with newer, healthier ones.
In doing so, eating and food will cease to be the cause of anxiety or shame, and rather become a source of self-care, health, a pleasure, and an occasion to connect with oneself and others.
Target Audience
All members of the healthcare team including MD/DO, nurses, pharmacist, social workers and registered dieticians.
Learning Objectives
At the end of this activity, the participant will be able to:
- Describe how different types of eating habits are formed and perpetuated.
- Explain how reinforcement learning works in the brain.
- Discuss how mindfulness approaches can help change eating habit patterns.
Tuesday, March 5th from 12 noon to 1 pm Eastern Time.
This workshop with Dr. Jud Brewer, MD, PH.D. focuses on using mindfulness to transform their relationship with eating — and provides continuing education credit.
This program in Virtual and will take place on Zoom. Log in information will be emailed to all registrants a few days prior to the meeting.
Featured Speaker
Judson Brewer MD PhD
Planning Committee
Daniel P. Alford, MD, MPH, FACP, DFASAM
CME Course Director
Associate Dean and Professor of Medicine
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine
Janice Furlong. MSW
Clinical Professor Emerita
Boston University School of Social Work
Lisa Ferreira Gormley, MS, RD, LDN, CWPM, HWC
Senior Clinical Consultant, Health Engagement
Point32Health
Christine Naoum-Heffernan, CPNP
Boston Medical Center
Katelyn O'Brien, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES, BC-ADM
Clinical Pharmacy Specialist – Ambulatory Care
Boston Medical Center
Jon Roberts
Operations Manager, Mindfulness-Based Learning
Point32Health
CCE Program Manager: Claire Grimble
Credit Types: AMA, ANCC, Social Work, ACPE, Registered Dietician, Participation
In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine and Point32Health. Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing Contact Hours: 1 of which 0 are eligible for pharmacology credit
Pharmacists: This activity is approved for 1 CPE credit(s).
Social Work: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 1 clinical continuing education credits.
Registered Dieticians: Completion of this RD profession-specific activity awards 1 CPEU(s).
Other Learners: All other learners may claim a certificate of participation. Consult your professional licensing board regarding the applicability and acceptance of certificates of participation for programs certified for credit by organizations accredited by Joint Accreditation for Interprofessional Education.
Available Credit
- 1.00 ACPE Pharmacy
- 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine designates this Live activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
- 1.00 ANCC
- 1.00 Social Work (ACE)
- 1.00 Participation
There is no charge to attend this program but you must create an account/register to receive the log in information and claim credit. Please click on the register/take course to sign up. Any questions, please reach out to cme@bu.edu or 617-358-5005.
Cancellation Policy
Substitutions may be made at any time.
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