Short Biography

Andrée Rochfort, MB MICGP

Andrée is a medical doctor, a family physician and medical educator in Ireland. She is Director of Quality Improvement & the Doctors’ Health Program of the Irish College of General Practitioners. www.icgp.ie
She is the President of the European Society for Quality and Safety in Family Medicine, EQUIP, the network for quality and safety in WONCA Europe www.qualityfamilymedicine.eu and leads its working groups in Professional Health and in Sustainable Healthcare.
Andrée is a founding member of the Irish Society of Lifestyle Medicine, a founding member of the Sustainability Working Group of the Irish College of General Practitioners, and a founding member of the European Association for Physician Health.
She has a Master’s degree in medical education, a Licentiate in occupational medicine and is certified in lifestyle medicine. She has a Professional Diploma in Leadership and Management from University College Dublin 2020, and she obtained a European Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine from ELMO www.eulm.org in 2021.
She is an author of articles in peer reviewed journals, book chapters and a medical book editor.

Workshop Title: Lifestyle medicine for your clients who are physicians

Short description of the Workshop (WGD3):

Do you know health professionals who personally experienced the benefits of lifestyle medicine coaching, through implementing evidence-based improvements in their own lifestyles?

This workshop will explore the challenges and benefits of engaging physicians in lifestyle medicine as clients and practitioners:

• by first recognising the personal gain from attending a lifestyle medicine practitioner themselves
• by developing competencies in evidence-based lifestyle medicine and delivering interventions in their own clinical work
• by gaining confidence to refer their patients to lifestyle medicine practitioners when they do not have time or capacity to provide the services themselves