Description:

**ZOOM ONLY**

Dr. Wahls will discuss her own remarkable healing journey, from severe disability to biking to work. She will review the ground-breaking research she conducts testing the effect of dietary and lifestyle interventions to reduce and reverse multiple sclerosis related symptoms, neuroinflammation and autoimmune processes. Facilitators and barriers to patient success will be discussed. General recommendations for patient care will be provided. Strategies to increase internal motivation to improve health behaviours.

This presentation is part of the Osher Center Grand Rounds, which is a collaboration between the Institute for Public Health and Medicine and the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Northwestern University.

Featuring:
Terry Wahls, MD, MBA, FACP, IFMCP
Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Iowa

Dr. Terry Wahls is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner and conducts clinical research at the University of Iowa using functional medicine principles in the setting of multiple sclerosis. She has published over a 100-peer reviewed scientific publications, abstracts and posters related to multiple sclerosis, autoimmunity and chronic diseases. In 2018 she was awarded the Institute for Functional Medicine’s Linus Pauling Award for her contributions in research, clinical care, and patient advocacy. Dr. Wahls has secondary progressive multiple sclerosis, which confined her to a tilt-recline wheelchair for four years. Dr. Wahls restored her health using a diet and lifestyle program she designed specifically for her brain and now pedals her bike to work each day.