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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 learning

Department

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