Total Credits: 1.0 including 1 AOA Category 1-A Credit(s), 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
Presentation Title: Tackling the Quarantine "15": Improving Immunity, Metabolism and Inflammation through Nutrition Keelyn Wu, DO
Session Objectives:
1. Understanding why nutrition is so important- especially now.
2. Recognizing the importance of Modifiable Lifestyle Factors and the obstacles we face in implementing them
3. Understanding the importance of inflammation, glucose intolerance/metabolic syndrome and the connection to COVID vulnerabilities
4. Understanding other ways that food impacts our immunity (and overall health)
5. Being able to provide lifestyle recommendations to our patients that can improve their resiliency in the face of the COVID pandemic.
Dr. Wu has no disclosures.
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Keelyn Wu, DO began his study of Osteopathic Medicine in 1991 at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, Maine. Dr. Wu completed his internship at Eastmoreland Hospital in Portland Oregon in 1996 and went on to complete his residency in Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine at St. Barnabas Hospital in New York in 1998. He has been practicing Osteopathy in the Portland, Maine area since 1998. He is board certified in Neuromuscular Medicine and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine and has consulting privileges at Mercy Hospital. Dr. Wu has always had a special interested in nutrition, digestion and the immune system. His interests led him to further training in Functional Medicine which addresses the underlying causes of disease, using a systems-oriented approach and engaging both patient and practitioner in a therapeutic partnership. He is an active member and has completed the practitioner’s certification program for the IFM (Institute of Functional Medicine). He is an active member of ILADS (Institute for Lyme Disease and Associated Diseases) and ISEAI (International Society of Environmentally Acquired Illness) and continues to participate in educational opportunities from these and other similar organizations that are oriented towards searching for the root cause of illness and treating the whole person. In addition to his full time practice he is involved in teaching osteopathic skills, principles and philosophy to both medical students and physicians. He is also one of several local osteopathic physicians who volunteer at the Portland Osteopathic Children’s Clinic. He and his wife live in Freeport and have two children.
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