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Military and Veteran Specific Tactics in Brain and Mental Health

Reverse Brain Disorders Summit

<h6>Cheng Ruan, MD</h6>
Bryan Stepanenko is a board certified family physician ambassador of the Institute for muscle centric medicine. He practices lifestyle performance medicine, especially training and functional medicine from the institute functional medicine. He is teaching staff for the military&#8217;s only functional medicine training pathway and lectures internationally on warfighter human performance and wellness. He was the career firefighter and paramedic in South Florida prime, being accepted into the military and a scholarship to attend medical school at the University of Miami in Florida. He completed seven years as an active duty army physician and continues to serve in the US Army Reserve. He cares for the full spectrum of patient populations, including pediatric, adult geriatric veteran athletes, elite tactical athlete populations and specializes in building and leveraging healing communities to share medical appointments. 
And so we&#8217;re gonna talk about very interesting things today, which basically is the framework for understanding brain health, especially coming from the military side as well. So I can&#8217;t wait to introduce you to uh, to Dr. Stepanenko. Bryan, I&#8217;m so happy to have you on, we&#8217;ve known each other for a little bit, but this is really the first time we&#8217;re really engaging into this conversation, but at the time brain health and when it comes to the military. And so let&#8217;s just kind of start there. Like what, what really should we focus on lessons learned from the military when it really comes to brain health, What should we focus on?

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Bryan Stepanenko is a board certified Family Physician and an ambassador for the Institute for Muscle Centric Medicine. He practices Lifestyle &amp; Performance Medicine and has specialty training in Functional Medicine (IFMCP) from the Institute for Functional Medicine. He is teaching staff for the military’s only Functional Medicine training pathway and lectures internationally on Warfighter Human Performance &amp; Wellness. He was a career firefighter &amp; paramedic in South Florida prior to accepting military scholarship to attend medical school at the University of Miami in Florida. He completed seven years as an active duty Army family physician and continues to serve in the U. S. Army Reserve. He cares for the full spectrum of patient populations including pediatric, adult, geriatric, veteran, athlete, and elite/tactical athlete populations. He also specializes in building and leveraging healing communities and shared medical appointments (or group medical visits).

Bryan Stepanenko

Bryan Stepanenko, MD, MPH

Dr. Ruan is the Founder and CEO of Texas Center for Lifestyle Medicine. He devotes his career in practicing and building systems that allow for efficient delivery of healthcare. He is a board certified internal medicine physician but also have advised with companies to improve their workflow, company culture, marketing, and operations.
Dr. Ruan has over 600,000 social media followers across his platforms and has been vocal about improving doctor patient relationships in healthcare. Furthermore, he is part of a collaborative medicine coalition involving notable university healthcare systems such as Harvard, USC, and the Cleveland Clinic. He is also a clinical facilitator for University of Texas at Arlington Nursing School.

Military and Veteran Specific Tactics in Brain and Mental Health

Cheng Ruan, MD

Bryan Stepanenko, MD, MPH

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