Grand Rounds Webinar Series: Leveraging Stress to Enhance Performance: Reframing Stress & Behavior

Description:
Traditional approaches to stress management often focus on reducing or eliminating stressors.  However, recognizing stress cycle patterns, harnessing the body’s adaptive stress response, and leveraging these insights when counseling patients can improve the effectiveness and sustainability of interventions. 

Through this presentation, participants will learn to apply principles utilized in training elite athletes, tactical specialists, physicians, and other high-performance professionals to move beyond stress reduction, and toward a comprehensive, physiological understanding of stress.  By integrating the concepts of General Adaptation Syndrome and holistic stressor analysis, clinicians can better support all patients—and themselves—in transforming stress from a liability into a tool for growth and long-term behavior change.

Earns: .75 CME Credits

Disclosures:
No one has any relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies to disclose. 

Statement of Accreditation: The Michigan State Medical Society is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AMA Credit Designation Statement: The Michigan State Medical Society designates this enduring material for a maximum of .75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Presenter(s):
Michael Ioerger, MD, PhD, MPH, CSCS, ACE-FNS, Owner, MI Wellness Consulting PLLC; Executive Director, Institute for Healthier Communities

Duration: 53 minutes

Release Date: February 17, 2026

Expiration Date: February 17, 2029