About YoMedics
Lisa R. Ramey, D.O., Medical Director of Integrative Pediatrics, and Heather Quillen, a health care advocate with a focus on women and children, share a vision and passion for children’s health. Their journey started with an idea that became a mission and culminated in YoMedics, an innovative, leading-edge medical health and wellness program.
YoMedics provides a whole health approach to wellness. In addition to the comprehensive and detailed health, nutritional, fitness and psychological components, YoMedics integrates character qualities to encourage and mode personal responsibility and success.
YoMedics® has created a series of healthy lifestyle programs to assist and guide children, parents, physicians, educators and communities in the development of a global system of optimal health and wellness. In addition to the comprehensive and detailed medical, nutritional, fitness and psychological components of the program, YoMedics integrates a weekly character quality into these daily components to encourage and model personal responsibility and success.
YoMedics™ Goals and Benefits
- To educate children and parents on healthy lifestyle changes to improve the health of the child.
- To allow the child to obtain and maintain his or her optimal weight and wellness for a lifetime.
- To improve mental health thus allowing the child to have a sense of well-being and confidence in themselves and their ability to deal successfully with the issues of daily life.
- To assist physicians in the global epidemic of obesity and decrease the risk of obesity related chronic disease such as, but not limited to, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, lung disease and orthopedic abnormalities.
- To offer educators the tools needed to improve a child’s ability to obtain and value higher academic achievement and future socioeconomic success.
- To decrease the financial burden on society of obesity related health care costs and disease.
YoMedics™ Philosophy
Each individual has the right to benefit from optimal health and a personal and social responsibility to achieve and maintain it.
