
Wellness
Wellness
MEDWell is an acronym that stands for: Mindfulness, Exercise and Diet through Work, Engagement and Lifelong Learning.

Promoting Wellness MEDWell Events & Resources
We offer weekly and monthly activities to promote a healthy lifestyle as well as embed wellness sessions within each conference week.
Please visit the items below for a variety of ongoing activities and recent recorded events and resources.
Body Scan (meditation)
Intermediate Yoga Flow
Sun Salutation A (yoga)
Sun Salutation B (yoga)
PAST PRESENTATIONS
- Vinyasa/Restorative Yoga Flow – By: Eleni Ramphos – COMP, OMS
- The Importance of Sleep – By: Nicolette Herbert & Raquel Orosa – COMP, OMS
- Romancing your life yoga session – By: Anjali Alamshaw – COMP, OMS
- Romancing your life meditation – By: Anjali Alamshaw – COMP, OMS
- Sleep Health Headspace meditation -By: Crystal Rivera – COMP, Wellness Coordinator
The NiM series is now, and historically has been, driven by student interest in the power of nutrition and how it relates to human health and disease. Integral in this acquisition of information is the medical profession’s responsibility to more fully understand this important connection and, more specifically, to better care for our patients utilizing this knowledge. Each session will be presented by faculty and guest lecturers who are leaders in the field of evidence-based nutrition.
The lectures and information provided in the NiM series are the thoughts and opinions of the lecturers. That said, a Whole Foods Plant Based (WFPB) largely unprocessed diet is the basis of the NiM lecture series. By gaining exposure to various types of science based nutrition therapies including a WFPB diet you will be provided with the knowledge to understand and treat those who follow a mainly unprocessed whole plant food lifestyle. The content of these lectures may be emotionally triggering. You are the best judge of your well-being and what works best for you and your future patients.
2022-2023 Sessions
Session 1: Real People, Real Stories
Session 2: Treating Diabetes with a low fat high carb diet
Session 3: Plant Based Weight Loss
Session 4: The Plantrician Project
Session 5: The Role of Plant-Based Nutrition in One Medicine
Session 6: Reversing Chronic Disease and Optimizing Immune Function using Supermarket Foods
Session 7: Things RDs wish Physicians Knew
Session 8: Holistic Health
2021-2022 Session Recordings
- Session 1: Practical Application of Nutrition in a Student’s Life
- Session 2: Preventing and Reversing Cardiovascular and Chronic Disease
- Session 3: The Role of Plant-Based Nutrition in One Medicine
- Session 4: Nutrition for Better Mental Health
- Session 5: Nutrition and the Gut Microbiome
- Session 6: What I Wish I Learned in Medical School about Nutrition
- Session 7: The Cancer Fighting Kitchen
2020-2021 Session Recordings
- Session 1: Practical Application of Nutrition in a Student’s Life
- Session 2: Nutrition and the Gut Microbiome
- Session 3: A New Paradigm of Human Health: What the Microbiome and Fecal Transplant are Teaching Us
- Session 4: The Important Intersection between Nutrition and Brain Health
- Session 5: Preventing and Reversing Cardiovascular and Chronic Disease
- Session 6: Using Foods to Address Diabetes and other Hormonal Disorders
- Session 7: The deficiency in our diet
CVM Students: please be mindful of differences in species-specific nutrition and disease vulnerability. If you have questions about how this COMP/COMP-NW lecture series is aligned with the DVM program, please do not hesitate to contact either Dr. Linde or Dr. Melgarejo (both CVM faculty members), who contribute to the NiM lecture series with content expertise in ‘One Medicine-One Health’.
- PAST PRESENTATIONS:
- Meal Prep Tips & Tricks – By Crystal Rivera & Melanie Barbee, RDN
- Breakfast for the Busy Med Student – By Kendall Lucara – COMPNW, OMS
- Tofu Stir Fry – By: Kyra Diehl & Hannah Ward – COMP, OMS
- Avocado Slaw – By: Melanie Barbee, MS, RDN, CDCES, DipACLM
- Energy Bites – By: Cailin Sochacki – COMPNW, OMS
Recipe Resources
PAST PRESENTATIONS
- Quick energy boosting workout – By: Crystal Rivera, CPT, Wellness Coordinator, COMP
- Plank Challenge – By: Crystal Rivera, CPT, Wellness Coordinator, COMP
- Core & Legs – By: Lexi Martin & Saloni Butala – COMP, OMS
- Bodyweight workout – By: Samar Fakia & Mary Trumble – COMP-NW, OMS
- Morning Stretch – By: Ashley Huynh – COMP-NW, OMS
- Core & Lower Back Strengthening – By: Joshua Vasquez, COMP, OMS
- Legs & Core – By: Michael San Angelo, COMP, OMS
- Core – By: Crystal Rivera, CPT, Wellness Coordinator, COMP
- Core & Legs – By: Eric Chang, COMP, OMS
- Guided Cardio Run/Walk – By: Katherine Knobloch, COMP, OMS
