Women’s Health Workshop Recording: Cancer, Hot Flashes, Sexual Health – Improving Women’s Midlife Health with a Whole Food, Plant Predominant Diet
Watch Full Plate Living’s women’s health workshop with Dr. Michelle Tollefson.
As a leader in both lifestyle medicine and women's health, Dr. Tollefson shares how food choices affect a woman's gut health, sexual health, menopause symptoms, bone health and cancer risk. She is a breast cancer survivor and thriver and she talks about her journey using the power of lifestyle medicine.
Presenter Bio
Michelle Tollefson, MD, FACOG, DipABLM, FACLM
Secretary American College of Lifestyle Medicine- Executive Board
Professor- Lifestyle Medicine Major/Program- MSU Denver
Author, International Speaker, Researcher, Breast Cancer Survivor & Thriver
Michelle Tollefson, MD, FACOG, DipABLM, FACLM, is an obstetrician-gynecologist in Denver, CO, and a Professor in the Health Professions Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver where she created and oversees the Lifestyle Medicine Program and the Wellness Coaching and Lifestyle Medicine Pathway.
Dr. Tollefson is a graduate of Creighton University, where she received both her Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Medicine degrees. She completed an obstetrics and gynecology residency at the University of Missouri in Kansas City, and received her board certification in this specialty. She has also received her board certification from the American Board of Lifestyle Medicine and a fellowship in Lifestyle Medicine from ACLM.
She is a lifestyle medicine leader within the American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM) as well as the field of women’s lifestyle medicine. She founded and co-chairs the ACLM Women’s Health Member Interest Group as well as the Pre-Professional Lifestyle Medicine Education Member Interest Group. She serves as the ACLM Executive Board Secretary and serves on the Education and Membership Committees.
She is the editor-in-chief of Improving Women’s Health Across the Lifespan , an international speaker, women’s health consultant, leads PAVING the Path to Wellness groups, and recently co-authored the PAVING the Path to Wellness Workbook with Dr. Beth Frates and Dr. Amy Comander. She is currently writing a Menopause and Lifestyle Medicine book to hopefully be released in late 2022.
She is a breast cancer survivor and thriver through the power of lifestyle medicine and enjoys spending time in the Colorado outdoors with her husband and three children.
