Raja Jaber, MD, associate clinical professor of family medicine and director of Lifestyle and integrative medicine in the Department of Family, Population, and Preventive Medicine at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stony Brook University, is featured in TIME magazine’s new special issue, “The Future of Medicine.”
Jaber is featured in the article, “Lifestyles of healthy and wise people” by Janet Lee, where she describes how lifestyle plays an important role in many chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and some cancers.
“In our country and indeed in the rest of the world, we have a lifestyle that promotes chronic diseases and, unless we change this, the number of people suffering from these diseases will increase exponentially, as will the expenses health,” Jaber said. .
In a section on “restful sleep,” Jaber talks about the “sleep apnea epidemic” and points to obesity as one of the main culprits.
Jaber co-directs and teaches
a nutrition course to first and second year medical students and teaches integrative family medicine to medical students and residents. She provides comprehensive, holistic, individualized, integrative primary and consultative care focused on patients’ unique needs and goals, combining cutting-edge conventional family medicine with lifestyle medicine (nutrition, exercise, stress management), mind-body medicine. , botany and manual medicine to create a holistic approach to health and disease.
Jaber’s clinical model integrates conventional medicine with nutritional, mind-body and exercise/manual medicine. She has successfully led a group visit program for patients suffering from hyperlipidemia, asthma and osteoporosis, and runs stress reduction workshops based on mindfulness meditation, and has published several articles on the process of change, the doctor-patient relationship and group visits.
“The Future of Medicine” is a collection of stories that detail amazing breakthroughs, new technologies and innovative trends that will help people stay healthy in the future. It is available for purchase online.
