Question 1:  What is Barbell Medicine, why did you decide to get involved and what are it’s goals?

Question 2: Why did you decide to go into Internal Medicine given your athletic history and interest in exercise?

Question 3: What do you think other physicians that do not lift weights can learn from Barbell medicine, should they attend your seminars?

Question 4: Does the population of those attending your Barbell Medicine seminars trend more towards physicians or healthcare professionals?

Question 5: There are many silly ideas surrounding preventive medicine and other aspects regarding medicine, can you speak to the use of evidence when it comes to recommendations in preventive health?

Question 6: What does preventive medicine mean to you?

Question 7: Why is the allure of more screening with regards to preventive care problematic?

Question 8: How do you balance limiting the allure of physicians to use screenings widely as a way to “check-off” preventive care and patients that desire screening based on false notions of prevention?

Question 9: How do you communicate to patients who come in wanting to get unneeded screening such as a whole-body scan to determine all potential problems?

Question 10: Why is it important that patients are educated and develop a level of self-efficacy?

Question 11: Do you think helping patients develop a positive self-narrative is beneficial in the scope of preventive medicine?

Question 12: Do you think we do a poor job of letting our patients know that they should be striving to develop a more robust exercise program based on the current guidelines?

Question 13: How do we bridge the gap between personal trainers and physicians in bringing exercise programs and nutritional counseling to patients?

Question 14: In 2 minutes what do you tell someone who asks you “how do I get healthy?”