Motivating patients to make meaningful and sustainable health behaviour changes with relationship-centered care

PLENARY KEYNOTE SESSION

Presented by: Dr. Céline Koryzma

Following this keynote session, participants will be able to:

·        Understand the factors that make healthy behaviour change so difficult for so many. 

·        Apply motivational interviewing and relationship-centered communication principles when discussing health behaviour change with patients.

·        Identify the modifiable individual and environmental variables that lead to sustained health behaviour change. 

About Céline Koryzma, PhD, Registered Psychologist

Dr. Koryzma is a clinical health psychologist in the Endocrinology and Metabolism Program within Alberta Health Services in Calgary, AB. She works with an interdisciplinary team to help patients with chronic health conditions make sustainable health behaviour changes. Dr. Koryzma’s background includes advanced training in interpersonal and health psychology. She received her PhD in clinical psychology from the University of Victoria in 2013 and completed a portion of her residency training with the Calgary Adult Bariatric Surgery Clinic. She was previously employed as medical psychologist for the Pediatric Centre for Weight and Health at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Dr. Koryzma is also a Clinical Lecturer for the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Calgary where she teaches about communication skills and mental health treatment in primary care. Her clinical interests include the psychosocial determinants of diabetes and cardiometabolic risk and the role of motivational and relationship-centered interventions in behaviour change.