Dr. Liana Lianov is the Founder and President of Global Positive Health Institute, assisting physicians and health professionals to leverage the science of positive psychology and lifestyle medicine to achieve flourishing in themselves and their patients. She is an International leader in Lifestyle Medicine and positive psychology, leading the movement to promote the science of positive psychology and health in health care; president of the Positive Health and Wellbeing Division of the International Positive Psychology Association; chair of the Happiness Science and Positive Health Committee at the American College of Lifestyle Medicine; vice chair American Board of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Lianov is also the author of "Strengths in the Mirror" (2021); editor and author of "Roots of Positive Change, Optimizing Health Care with Positive Psychology" (2019).
This episode was originally recorded last year, and we are re-casting it to celebrate the launch of the Global Positive Health Institute and its upcoming inaugural conference "POSITIVE HEALTH FOR BEST OUTCOMES: MOVING FROM TRAUMA TO GROWTH". To learn more and register, follow this link.
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Dr. Lianov is a past president of the ACLM, a past board regent of ACPM, and the former Healthy Lifestyles Division Director for the American Medical Association. She previously directed a number of heart disease and stroke prevention, cancer detection, and other chronic diseases and mental health services programs at the California Department of Health Services. Her leadership of the inaugural national Summit on Happiness Science in Health Care, her publications, including the groundbreaking book Roots of Positive Change: Optimizing Health Care with Positive Psychology, and presentations are spearheading the integration of positive psychology interventions in health care.
