APC 2025 Preview
Get ready to come home and reconnect! Join us February 27–March 3, 2025, for our 93rd Annual Postgraduate Convention (APC) in partnership with Loma Linda University Health’s Homecoming Weekend. Reunite with former classmates and gain valuable insights in our plenary sessions centered around this year’s APC theme: “Embracing Change in Today’s Medicine.” Don’t miss out on the latest advancements and innovations in health care. For more information, visit www.llusmaa.org/apc.
Friday Featured Speakers
Zeno L. Charles-Marcel, MD | 8:00 – 9:00 a.m.
Zeno L. Charles-Marcel ’80-AFF, is a versatile medical professional with expertise in internal medicine, geriatrics, and diabetology. His career spans clinical practice, health care administration, and academic leadership. Educated at McGill, Howard, and Loma Linda Universities, he co-founded the first U.S. Lifestyle Medicine Fellowship. Charles-Marcel has worked as a medical missionary globally and held key leadership positions in various public and private health systems and institutions. His contributions include peer-reviewed publications, book chapters, and medical and public lectures on diabetes care and chronic disease reversal. Formerly the dean of Health Sciences at Montemorelos University, he currently serves as director for Adventist Health Ministries. His diverse background reflects a commitment to improving health outcomes through lifestyle interventions and comprehensive, evidence-based medical approaches.
Karen Lebacqz, PhD | 9:00 – 10:15 a.m. PROVONSHA LECTURESHIP
Rev. Karen Lebacqz, PhD, taught ethics at the Graduate Theological Union, UC Berkeley, for more than 30 years, with a specialty in bioethics. She served on the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects, which authored the Belmont Report, and she chaired the ethics advisory board of the Geron Corporation, which pioneered stem cell research. Her publications include “Justice in an Unjust World”; “Eight Theories of Justice”; “Ethics and Spiritual Care”; and “Sacred Cells? Why Christians Should Support Stem Cell Research.” Ordained in the United Church of Christ, she is an active member of Parkside Community Church in Sacramento, California.
Wayne Dysinger, MD, MPH | 1:15 – 2:15 p.m.
Wayne Dysinger ’86, MPH, is a lifestyle, preventive, and family medicine physician, serving as chief medical officer of Blue Zones Health. He is a former president of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, and was the founding chair of both the American and the International Boards of Lifestyle Medicine. A faculty member at Loma Linda University, he teaches, consults, and does research on lifestyle medicine globally. Dysinger is the former chair of Loma Linda University’s department of preventive medicine. He also co-founded family and preventive medicine residencies at Dartmouth and in Atlanta, Georgia, and worked at the Guam SDA Clinic. He is a fellow of multiple medical colleges.
Dawn Mussallem, DO, DipABLM I 2:45 – 3:45 p.m.
Dawn Mussallem, DO, DipABLM, is a consultant in hematology oncology at Mayo Clinic, an assistant professor of medicine, chair of Mayo Clinic Employee Wellbeing, and is medical director of Mayo Clinic Florida Humanities in Medicine. Double board-certified, including in lifestyle medicine, she founded the Integrative Medicine and Breast Health Program at Mayo Clinic Florida in 2015, which supports breast cancer patients through lifestyle optimization alongside conventional treatments. Mussallem directs the Lifestyle Medicine Residency Curriculum and leads the Regenerative Farm Project at Mayo Clinic. Additionally, she is on the advisory board for the department of exercise science at Jacksonville University and co-chairs the Blue Zones Jacksonville Steering Committee. She received the 2022 ACP Volunteerism in Medicine Award and the 2021 Marquis Who’s Who in America Top Doctor Award.
