Embee Lifestyle Docs to Host Its First Walk With a Doc Texas Event

August 5, 2019

  • WHAT: Bellaire residents of all ages are encouraged to lace up their walking shoes and join Bandana Chawla, MD, and Munish Chawla, MD, of Embee Lifestyle Docs for the clinic’s first Bellaire Walk With a Doc (WWAD) Texas event. 

  • WHEN: THIS Saturday, Aug. 10, at 7:30 am. Future walks will occur on the second Saturday of each month.

  • WHERE: Evelyn’s Park, 4400 Bellaire Blvd., Bellaire

  • WHO: Both Drs. Chawla, Embee Lifestyle Docs staff members, and any community members interested in participating

  • WHY: Walking is one of the simplest, best things people can do to live a long, high-quality life. WWAD makes it easy by providing the time, place, motivation (a brief health information talk), and fellow participants for a fun walking experience.

The Walk With a Doc concept is simple: Physicians organize walks in their communities and invite their patients, their patients’ families, and community members to join them. Walkers will enjoy a refreshing and invigorating walk with both physicians and other health care professionals, who will provide support to participants and answer questions during the walk. Walk With a Doc Texas is overseen by a national nonprofit organization to get people active and healthy, and is backed by the Texas Medical Association (TMA) in Texas.

This is a FREE program, and preregistration is not required. Information about future walks will be announced on this chapter’s Walk With a Doc website.

TMA is the largest state medical society in the nation, representing nearly 53,000 physician and medical student members. It is located in Austin and has 110 component county medical societies around the state. TMA’s key objective since 1853 is to improve the health of all Texans. TMA Foundation, TMA’s philanthropic arm, raises funds to support the public health and science priority initiatives of TMA and the family of medicine, including Walk With a Doc Texas. Walk With a Doc Texas is funded by a grant from the TMA Foundation with generous support from TMA Insurance Trust, Prudential, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas. To learn more, visit the TMA Foundation website.

Walk With a Doc is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to encourage healthy physical activity in people of all ages, and reverse the consequences of a sedentary lifestyle to improve the health and well-being of the country. Walk With a Doc was started in 2005 by David Sabgir, MD, a board-certified cardiologist in Columbus, Ohio, who practices with the Mount Carmel Health System. To learn more, go to the Walk With a Doc website.

TMA contacts:

Brent Annear (512) 370-1381; cell: (512) 656-7320

Marcus Cooper (512) 370-1382; cell: (512) 650-5336

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August 05, 2019

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August 05, 2019