Dr. Liz Williams is a GP, co-director of Aurora Health Centre in Dunedin, a Medical Sexual Assault Clinician (also known as MEDSAC) and internationally board certified lifestyle medicine physician. She trained in Dunedin and graduated from Otago Medical School in 2009.  She has a strong passion for chronic disease prevention and management using evidence based lifestyle medicine strategies.  More recently Liz co-developed a lifestyle medicine program called 'Take Control of your Health' to help improve glycaemic control for people with type 2 diabetes and prediabetes.  Liz also has her own webpage and social media where she shares lifestyle tips, blog and favourite recipes.

In this episode, we discuss her journey into lifestyle medicine, health coaching, certification for lifestyle medicine, examples of her work and research in it, and new models of health in general practice. 

Social media links:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LifestylemedGP/
Website: https://drlizwilliams.com/

MEDSAC: https://medsac.org.nz/

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As always, if you have any feedback or queries, or if you would like to get in touch with the speaker, feel free to get in touch at [email protected].

Audio credit:
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