Thomas Leo Lenz, PharmD
Chair, Bachelor of Arts in Healthy Lifestyle Management
Professor
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School of Medicine
Leadership and Well-Being (Graduate Certificate)
Lifestyle Medicine (Graduate Certificate)
Integrative Health and Wellness (Master of Science)
Family and Community Medicine
CIPER Administrative Council
OGYM - Old Gymnasium - 177
Thomas Leo Lenz, PharmD
Chair, Bachelor of Arts in Healthy Lifestyle Management
Professor
Research Focus
Self-care; Employee well-being; lifestyle medicine; disease prevention; health promotion; online learningDepartment
Family and Community Medicine
Position
Professor
Books
- Lenz Thomas L., Lifestyle modifications in pharmacotherapy 2012
- Lenz Thomas L., Lifestyle modifications in pharmacotherapy 2008
- Lenz Thomas L., Lifestyle modifications in pharmacotherapy 2007
Articles
- U.S. Pharmacist
Lenz Thomas L., Implementing lifestyle medicine in hypertensive patients
36, p. 44 - 50 2011 - Pharmacy Times
Dull Ryan, Lifestyle modifications for patients with metabolic syndrome
76 2010 - Pharmacy Times
Lenz Thomas L., Controlling diabetes
76 2010 - U.S. Pharmacist
Lenz Thomas L., Counseling patients about lifestyle modification
33, p. 38 - 45 2008
Publications
- American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Merlo Gia, Laying an Early Foundation
14:5, p. 474 - 482 2020 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
White Nicole D., Using the SMART-EST Goals in Lifestyle Medicine Prescription
14:3, p. 271 - 273 2020 - American Health and Drug Benefits
White Nicole D., Long-term outcomes of a cardiovascular and diabetes risk- reduction program initiated by a self-insured employer
11:4, p. 177 - 181 2018 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Drugs that Negatively Affect Sleep
8:6, p. 383 - 385 2014 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Documenting Lifestyle Medicine Activities
8:4, p. 242 - 243 2014 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Developing Lifestyle Medicine Tools from Psychological Theories
8:1, p. 28 - 30 2014 - Pharmacotherapy
Ling Hua, Reducing the Risk of Obesity: Defining the Role of Weight Loss Drugs
33:12, p. 1308 - 1321 2013 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Pharmacists Improving Health at the Worksite
7:6, p. 382 - 384 2013 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Prevalence of Medication use in Children for Cardiometabolic Risk Reduction
7:5, p. 310 - 312 2013 - Psychology Research and Behavior Management
White Nicole D., Tool guide for lifestyle behavior change in a cardiovascular risk reduction program
6, p. 55 - 63 2013 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Drug-Alcohol Interactions
7:4, p. 250 - 252 2013 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
White N. D., Drug-Induced Photosensitivity and the Major Culprits
7:3, p. 189 - 191 2013 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., A Pharmacological/Physiological Comparison of Metformin and Exercise
7:2, p. 118 - 120 2013 - Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
White Nicole D., Comparison of cardiovascular risk calculation tools in pharmacy practice
53:4, p. 408 - 413 2013 - Journal of Interprofessional Care
Lenz Thomas L., Using employee experts to offer an interprofessional diabetes risk reduction program to fellow employees
27:2, p. 197 - 199 2013 - Lenz Thomas L., Employee health 2013
- American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Medication use for Hypercholesterolemia in the Pediatric Population
6:6, p. 455 - 457 2012 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Gillespie Nicole, Resveratrol: Potential Benefits on Aging and Heart Disease
6:5, p. 390 - 392 2012 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., A Pharmacological/Physiological Comparison between ADHD Medications and Exercise
6:4, p. 306 - 308 2012 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Lessening Chemotherapy Side Effects with Lifestyle Medicine
6:3, p. 219 - 221 2012 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Implementing Lifestyle Medicine Guidelines into Pharmacy Practice
6:2, p. 116 - 118 2012 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Gillespie Nicole D., Reducing Inflammation
6:1, p. 21 - 23 2012 - Pharmacotherapy
Gillespie Nicole, Identifying employees with undiagnosed diabetes for participation in a pharmacist-run worksite wellness program.
32:10, p. E260 - E261 2012 - Innovations in Pharmacy
Gillespie Nicole, Development and implementation of a novel lifestyle medicine advanced pharmacy practice experience.
3:1, p. Article 64 (1 - 5) 2012 - Innovations in Pharmacy
Lenz Thomas L., Lifestyle medicine related cardiovascular risk factor changes in employes participating in a pharmacist-run risk reduction program.
3:4, p. Article 93 (1 - 8). 2012 - International Journal of Pharmacy and Intergrated Life Sciences.
Lenz TL, Blood pressure outcomes from a pharmacist-run lifestyle medicine program in an employee health setting., p. 8 - 17 2012 - Innovations in Pharmacy
Lenz Thomas L., Health-related quality of life impact in employees participating in a pharmacist-run risk reduction program.
3:4, p. Article 94 (1 - 8) 2012 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Herbal Supplements for Stress
5:6, p. 497 - 499 2011 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Walter Andrea N., Hydration and Medication Use
5:4, p. 332 - 335 2011 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Using Behavior Change Questionnaires to Tailor Personalized Health Communications in Pharmacy Practice
5:2, p. 130 - 132 2011 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Myopathy in Children Receiving Chronic Corticosteroid Therapy for Asthma
5:1, p. 44 - 46 2011 - Advances in preventive medicine
Gillespie Nicole D., Implementation of a Tool to Modify Behavior in a Chronic Disease Management Program
2011, p. 215842 - 5 2011 - Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
Lenz Thomas L., Implementing lifestyle medicine with medication therapy management services to improve patient-centered health care
51:2, p. 184 - 188 2011 - Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
Lenz Thomas L., Pay-for-performance model of medication therapy management in pharmacy practice
51:3, p. 425 - 431 2011 - Sports Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Transdermal patch drug delivery interactions with exercise
41:3, p. 177 - 183 2011 - Journal of Obesity
Egras Amy M., An evidence-based review of fat modifying supplemental weight loss products
2011 2011 - Expert opinion on drug metabolism & toxicology
Lenz Thomas L., The effects of high physical activity on pharmacokinetic drug interactions
7:3, p. 257 - 266 2011 - Wilson Amy F., Making your pharmacy practice department 'in-dispense-able' 2011
- American journal of pharmaceutical education
Foral Pamela A., Faculty and student expectations and perceptions of e-mail communication in a campus and distance doctor of pharmacy program.
74:10, p. 191 2010 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Combining Lifestyle Medicine With Medication Therapy Management Services in a Community Pharmacy Setting
4:6, p. 484 - 487 2010 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Medication Adherence and Its Connection With Depression and Lifestyle Medicine
4:5, p. 413 - 415 2010 - Innovations in pharmacy
Lenz Thomas L., A Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in a Community Pharmacy Setting
1:1 2010 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., The Ambulatist
4:2, p. 134 - 137 2010 - American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education
Packard Kathleen A., A tool to teach heart failure treatment guidelines and to assess heart failure therapy in a pharmacy cardiology rotation
74:6, p. 1 - 7 2010 - American journal of pharmaceutical education
Packard Kathleen A., Teaching heart failure treatment guidelines and assessing heart failure therapy
74:6, p. 1 - 7 2010 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Leucine With Resistance Training for the Treatment of Sarcopenia
4:4, p. 317 - 319 2010 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Pharmacokinetic Drug Interactions With Physical Activity
4:3, p. 226 - 229 2010 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Pharmacodynamic Interactions with Exercise and Beta-Blocker Medications
3:6, p. 454 - 457 2009 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Are Physically Active Individuals Taking Statins at Increased Risk for Myopathy?
3:4, p. 287 - 289 2009 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Minorities and Disease Prevention in Pharmacy Practice
3:3, p. 198 - 200 2009 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Vitamin D Supplementation and Cancer Prevention
3:5, p. 365 - 368 2009 - American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Effects of Food on the Most Commonly Used Medications in School-Age Children
3:2, p. 119 - 122 2009 - Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare
Sexson Emily L., Use of a multidisciplinary tool to achieve target outcomes in native American patients with diabetes
1, p. 73 - 77 2008 - Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
Lenz Thomas L., Lifestyle modifications for patients with hypertension
48:4, p. e92 - 9; quiz e100 2008 - Preventing Chronic Disease
Lenz Thomas L., Therapeutic lifestyle strategies taught in U.S. pharmacy schools
5:1 2008 - Preventing Chronic Disease
Lenz Thomas L., Therapeutic lifestyle strategies taught in U.S. pharmacy schools
4:4 2007 - American journal of pharmaceutical education
Lenz Thomas L., An elective course on lifestyle modifications in pharmacotherapy
71:5 2007 - Journal of Interprofessional Care
Lenz Thomas L., An interprofessional medication risk assessment program
20:5, p. 558 - 560 2006 - Journal of Pharmacy Teaching
Lenz Thomas L., Assessing the use of two-way interactive video (TWIV) conferencing to offer heart failure continuing education to rural pharmacists
13:1, p. 29 - 36 2006 - Journal of Pharmacy Teaching
Lenz Thomas L., Instructor workload of a campus-based versus a web-based pharmacy course
12:2, p. 97 - 106 2006 - International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Faulkner Michele A., Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation and the implications for COPD.
1:3, p. 279 - 287 2006 - American journal of pharmaceutical education
Lenz Thomas L., Using performance-based assessments to evaluate parity between a campus and distance education pathway
70:4, p. 1 - 6 2006 - HeartDrug
Lenz Thomas L., Nesiritide usage in decompensated heart failure
5:2, p. 81 - 88 2005 - Consultant Pharmacist
Faulkner Michele A., Osteoporosis in long-term care residents with multiple sclerosis
20:2, p. 128 - 136 2005 - Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
Hunter Claire B., Nesiritide for heart failure
5:1, p. 15 - 21 2005 - Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
Lenz Thomas L., Lifestyle modification counseling of patients with dyslipidemias by pharmacists and other health professionals
45:6, p. 709 - 713 2005 - Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
Lenz Thomas L., Therapeutic lifestyle changes and pharmaceutical care in the treatment of dyslipidemias in adults
45:4, p. 492 - 502 2005 - American journal of pharmaceutical education
Lenz Thomas L., Faculty workload comparison between a campus-based and internet-based patient assessment course
69:4, p. 495 - 499 2005 - American Heart Journal
Mooss Aryan N., Amiodarone versus sotalol for the treatment of atrial fibrillation after open heart surgery: The Reduction in Postoperative Cardiovascular Arrhythmic Events (REDUCE) trial
148:4, p. 641 - 648 2004 - Pharmacotherapy
Lenz Thomas L., Impact of nesiritide on health care resource utilization and complications in patients with decompensated heart failure
24:9, p. 1137 - 1146 2004 - Journal of the American Pharmacists Association
Lenz Thomas L., Supplemental products used for weight loss
44:1, p. 59 - 68 2004 - Sports Medicine
Lenz Thomas L., Potential interactions between exercise and drug therapy
34:5, p. 293 - 306 2004 - Advances in Pharmacy
Lenz Thomas L., Rosuvastatin: A new HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor for the treatment of dyslipidemia
2, p. 136 - 145 2004 - Annals of Pharmacotherapy
Faulkner Michele A., Gabapentin for the treatment of tremor
37:2, p. 282 - 286 2003 - Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Lenz Thomas L., Clinical pharmacokinetics of antiplatelet agents used in the secondary prevention of stroke
42:10, p. 909 - 920 2003 - Pharmacotherapy
Packard Kathleen A., Comparison of gemfibrozil and fenofibrate in patients with dyslipidemic coronary heart disease
22:12 I, p. 1527 - 1532 2002 - Chest
Wurdeman Richard L., Amiodarone vs sotalol as prophylaxis against atrial fibrillation/flutter after heart surgery
121:4, p. 1203 - 1210 2002 - ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting
Hilleman Daniel E., Comparison of gemfibrozil and fenofibrate in hyperlipidemic coronary heart disease patients
36, p. P - E 2001 - Pharmacotherapy
Hilleman Daniel E., Therapeutic change of HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors in patients with coronary artery disease
21:4, p. 410 - 415 2001 - Pharmacotherapy
Lenz T. L., Comparison of 24-hour blood pressure profiles in patients with hypertension who were switched from amlodipine to nisoldipine
21:8, p. 898 - 903 2001 - P and T
Lenz T. L., The role of combination therapy with antiplatelet and oral anticoagulant agents in cardiovascular disease
26:11, p. 561 - 562+565 2001 - Drugs of Today
Lenz T. L., Dofetilide
36:11, p. 759 - 771 2000 - Annals of Pharmacotherapy
Lenz Thomas L., Aggrenox
34:11, p. 1283 - 1290 2000 - Pharmacotherapy
Lenz Thomas L., Dofetilide, a new class III antiarrhythmic agent
20:7 I, p. 776 - 786 2000
Presentations
- Dr. Tom Lenz: Panel Discussion. Sustainable Strategies to Support Well-Being for Healthcare Professionals. Presented at the Midwest Chapter of the American College of Healthcare Executives. April 24, 2024. Omaha, NE 2024
- Dr. Tom Lenz: HW Application in Chronic Disease. Presented at 2024 Primary Care Update Preconference: Integrative Health and Wellness. April 4, 2024. Omaha, NE. Podium and Teleconference 2024
- Dr. Tom Lenz: Connection, Compassion, Contemplation: Guiding Principles Toward Well-Being and Improved Mental Health. Presented at 2024 Primary Care Update Preconference: Integrative Health and Wellness. April 4, 2024. Omaha, NE. Podium and Teleconference. (invited) 2024
- Dr. Tom Lenz: Chronic Stress as a Pathway to Chronic Disease. Presented at 2024 Primary Care Update Preconference: Integrative Health and Wellness. April 4, 2024. Omaha, NE. Podium and Teleconference. 2024
- Dr. Tom Lenz: Sleep as Medicine. Presented at 2024 Primary Care Update Preconference: Integrative Health and Wellness. April 4, 2024. Omaha, NE. Podium and Teleconference 2024
- Dr. Tom Lenz: What is Integrative Health and Wellness? Presented at 2024 Primary Care Update Preconference: Integrative Health and Wellness. April 4, 2024. Omaha, NE. Podium and Teleconference 2024
- 2023
- Dr. Tom Lenz pesented: Connection, Compassion, Contemplation. Guiding Principles Toward Well-Being. Presented at Leadership Retreat for CHI/Mercy Hospital. April 26, 2023. Council Bluffs, Iowa. (Invited) 2023
- Dr. Tom Lenz pesented: Connection, Compassion, Contemplation. Guiding Principles Toward Well-Being. Presented at Leadership Retreat for CHI/Immanuel Medical Center. April 14, 2023. Omaha, Nebraska. (Invited) 2023
- Lifestyle Medicine. Presented to the faculty and students in the School of Pharmacy and Health Professions at Creighton University. March 25, 2014. (invited) 2014
- Creating a Personal Teaching Philosophy Statement. Department of Pharmacy Practice, Creighton University. December 18, 2013. Omaha, Nebraska 2013
- Be Your Own First Patient. Presented at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services Conference on Creating a Culture of Wellness in Healthcare Settings. May 18, 2013. Nebraska City, NE. (invited) (presented with Nicole White, PharmD) 2013
- Lifestyle Medicine in Pain Management. Presented at: TOGETHER. Providing Quality Care to Pain Patients in Iowa. A Multidisciplinary Conference. February 8, 2013. Des Moines, Iowa. (Invited) 2013
- Cardiovascular and Diabetes Risk Reduction Program Outcomes. Presented to the Creighton University Wellness Council. November 8, 2012. Omaha, Nebraska. (Invited) 2012
- Optimizing Your Pharmacy Distance Pathway Educational Mentor. Presented to the Creighton University Pharmacy Program Faculty. October 23, 2012. Omaha, Nebraska. 2012
- The Ambulatist: A Novel Employee Health Specialty Position. American College of Preventive Medicine 2012 Annual Meeting. February 23, 2012. Orlando, FL 2012
- Implementing Lifestyle Medicine with Clinical Pharmacy Practice. Presented to the Midwest College of Clinical Pharmacy. November 29, 2011. Omaha, Nebraska. (Invited) 2011
Awards
- Nomination - S.J. Diversity Award for Excellence & Innovation
2015 John P. Schlegel, S.J. Diversity Award for Excellence & Innovation - Certificate of Recognition
Strategic Plan Initiatives, Creighton University - Excellence in Innovation
Nebraska Pharmacists Association
Consulting
- Faculty Associate - Office of Interprofessional Scholarship, Service, and Education, Creighton University School of Pharmacy and Health Professions
2006 - 2006 - Consultant - Creighton University Athletic Department
2000 - 2000