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Pelagia Petraki Kavvadia is a Greek medical doctor with full time residency in Pathology. She refers to her first three years of medical school in the University of Crete as those that mostly shaped her holistic approach towards health .The modules of "communication skills", "nutrition and exercise", "social medicine"," learning of different health systems", etc... planted the seeds that later grew through the advancement of the field of Lifestyle medicine. She became a Diplomate of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine through the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine and is active member of the lifestyle medicine organizations, ACLM, ELMO, MLMI, along with ACSM, Exercise is Medicine Greece, Hellenic Medical Association for Obesity, Healthy Longevity Medicine Society, Women for Oncology Greece, Hellenic Society of Pathologists. She did her  LM internship in the Lifestyle Medicine Clinic of Österåsen in Sweden. She is keeping up her continuing medical education in the fields of Lifestyle medicine and Cancer survivorship, Lifestyle Medicine and Obesity, Lifestyle Medicine and Diabetes, Lifestyle Medicine and Sleep, Shared medical Appointments in Lifestyle Medicine, Blue Zones Certification, Health Equity in Lifestyle Medicine , among others. She is trained and certified in Motivational Interviewing through UMass Chan Medical School and has also completed the Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction program  . She is founder and director of the first NGO for Lifestyle Medicine in Greece for advocacy and Lifestyle Medicine Programs in the community , initiating also the first "Walk with a Doc "chapter in Greece. She has been invited speaker in various medical  conferences and the ELMO certificate. While volunteering for the Hellenic Olympic Academy she designed programs for the advancement of healthy habits literacy in school children and is currently a Master candidate of Olympic studies in the International Olympic Academy. She speaks fluently both English and Greek. Accessible bio also in Proactively, the platform of ACLM and IBLM practitioners.