4 Days | 12 Keynotes | 22 Plenary Sessions
Cooking Demos | 2 Film Screenings
Eco-Friendly Virtual Event
Uniting Agriculture and Medicine to Support Food Sovereignty and Health Justice for All
Uniting Agriculture and Medicine to Support Food Sovereignty and Health Justice for
All
Agriculture broadly defined for a diversity of food ways to include farmers, foragers, fishers, subsistence hunters, ranchers, wild-crafters, pastoralists, forest producers, and more. Medicine broadly defined for a diversity of health ways to include all those engaged in health and healing practices.
What We Do
Food as Medicine Global (FAMG) was created to increase awareness about and engagement in positive food system solutions by growing a global community of farmers, fishers, foragers, ranchers, subsistence hunters, wild-crafters, pastoralists, forest producers, healthcare providers, healers, hospitals, clinics, educators, schools, academic centers, students, cooks, consumers and more - united in a vision of food sovereignty and health justice for all.
Activities Include
Hosting Annual Food as Medicine Global Conference and other events for continued cooperative engagement and information exchange
Stewarding the Food as Medicine Global Resource Directory to increase awareness, collaboration, and engagement to benefit individuals, communities, and the planet
Facilitating a Members Online Community Site promoting information exchange and shared learning
Why?
Many of our current world challenges have a common root: the way food is grown, produced, controlled, processed, accessed, and consumed, which impacts the health of people, animals, and the environment.
Our Logo
Acknowledgments
Logo Graphic Design by Cassandra Lee Houston. Cover collage photos by Anda Ambrosini, Melanie Anderson, David Clode, Gabriel Jimenez, Taylor Kiser, Brook Lark, Nadine Primeau, Andrew Ridley, Joanie Simon, Markus Spiske, and Marek Studzinski on Unsplash.
Thank you!
Food as Medicine Global Leadership
Board Members
Patricia StandTal Clarke, MD, DMin, FAAFP, ABOIM, Didanawisgi
Gabriel Allahdua, Author, Activist in Residence, University of Guelph
Circle of Advisors
Francis Bosah, Founder/CEO, Health of the Soil International
Sofia Chavez, DNM, Minister, LMT, CCA, COTA, NADA, Founder, Estara Health & Wellness
Ricardo Ghelman,
Cheryl Martin, MD, MA Attending Physician Family Medicine, BronxCare
Founding Chair, Brazilian Academic Consortium for Integrative Health
Sheila Mary, ND, MPH, LAc Student Midwife, Founder, 5 Elements Health Alliance
Amy Goldstein, MSW, Director, Alliance to Advance Comprehensive Integrative Pain Management
P.E, Executive Director, Psychedelic Research and Training Institute
April Moreno Arellano, PhD, MPA, MA, Founder of Autoimmune Community Institute
Emma Gardner Student Ambassador
Julie Tran-Olive, ND, LAc Founder of Silicon Valley Natural Health
Scarlet Soriano, MD, ABOIM Executive Director, Duke Health and Well-Being
Beth Rosenthal, PhD, MBA, MPH, Co-Founder, Food as Medicine Global
Joseph Bogaard, Executive Director, Save Our Wild Salmon
S Prasad Vinjamury, MD (Ayurveda), DACM, MPH
Beth Romanski Integrative Health & Wellness Coach, Health Educator
Jamie Harvie,
Nadine Ijaz, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Law and Legal Studies, Carleton University
Melina Meza, BSN, 500-Hour RYT, Ayurvedic Health Educator, Author
Malik Tiedt, BSPH Nutrition Science, BA Medical Anthropology
Daniel F. Gallego-Pérez, MD, DrPH
Heather Carrie, MAS, President & CEO
Kathleen Scheible, CCH Certified Board Classical Homeopath, Urban Farmer
John S Finnell ND, PhD(C), MPH, DiplOM, Program Manager, Whole Health
MD, Ph.D.
Thank you! Conference Presenters
Oluwole Ajayi, B.TECH, NIM, MISMN, PMP, M.A
Gabriel Allahdua, University of Guelph
Erika Allen, BFA, MA, Honorary PhD
Katie Barth, MPH (Summer 2023)
Iracema Benevides, MD
Mary Ann Beyster, Executive Producer
Monica Bledsoe, FARM Rx Program Coordinator
Christina Boelkins, BA
Joseph Bogaard, Executive Director
Vivian Camacho, MD, Quechua Midwife
Twila Cassadore, Indigenous Food Educator
Sze Wan (Celine) Chan, MPH, CHES
Arti Chandra, MD, MPH
Steven Chen, MD, Chief Medical Officer
Patricia StandTal Clarke, MD, DMin
Patty Corona, BA, Cooking for Salud® Coordinator
Denise Coventry, MS, RD
Elise Cushman, MS, RD, CSO
Sandra Darling, DO, MPH
Petra Davelaar, ND
Liz Dowd, Director of Farming Operations
Sabrina Falquier, MD, CCMS
Maddy Frey, MPH
Mekenzie Gear, MPH
Ricardo Ghelman, MD, PhD
Mariah Gladstone, Owner of Indigikitchen
Ellen Goldsmith, MSOM, L.Ac., Dip. C.H
Hannah Gordon, ND, FNP, RN
Jamie Harvie, P.E.
Troy Horton, Farm Director and Farmer
Michelle Hughes, Associate Director
Jessica Hutchings, PhD
Chris Latham, MS, CNS, CKNS
Wei-Chen Lee, PhD
Stephen Lucke, M.A.
Thais Maud, PhD
Geeta Maker-Clark, MD, ABOIM
Elizabeth Markle, PhD
Cheryl Martin, MD
Sheila Mary, MD, ND, MPH, Midwife
Jackie Massuda, MS
Russell McIntire, PhD, MPH
Steve Mei, Director
Melina Meza, BSN
Sarah Moore, MPH
Afshan Omar, HBSc
Chef Jim Perko Sr. CEC, AAC
Mary Purdy, MS, RDN
Dr. Hernán José García Ramírez
Elizabeth Rapacz, Student
Lisa Goldman Rosas, PhD, MPH
Adam Sadowski, ND, MS
Vera Lucia Salvo, PhD
Steven Schindler, Executive Director
Sasha Shankar, Co-Farm Director
Chef Gabby Shipta, Sous Chef
Shalini Singh-Karnik, MD
Tammara Soma, PhD
Scarlet Soriano, MD, ABOIM
Alicia Spalding, ND
Johnnie Thomas, RN
Malik Tiedt, BSPH, BA
Stephanie White, EdD, Chef
Stella Yi, PhD, MPH
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7:00 - 7:45 AM PT
2023 Conference Schedule At-A-Glance
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Conference Opening and Tech Orientation
9:00 - 10:00 AM Thursday Only
KEYNOTE
Afshan Omar
La Dieta de la Milpa Dirección de Medicina Tradicional y Desarrollo Intercultural Secretaría de Salud, México
Medical Education in Brazil: From Concepts to Practice & Teaching Culinary Medicine in Brazil
KEYNOTE
Cooking Demo
Partnershipbetween AnthroposophicMedicine andAgricultureExperience inBrazil&Mindfulness EatinginBrazilianPublic HealthSystem Mariah Gladstone
Duke Health and Well-Being
Cleveland Clinic Wellness
KEYNOTE
Patricia Standtal Clarke
Film Screening
Twila Cassadore
Who is at the center of your food is medicine program?
Vivian Camacho Gabriel Allahdua
Setting Up Cooking Demonstrations in Cancer Centers: A Recipe for Success
Save Our Wild Salmon
Community-Driven Efforts to Improve Food Access for Immigrant Families KEYNOTE
Naturopathic Doctors Championing Food as Medicine in Community Health Clinics
Forgotten Discoveries of Health Pioneers: How the Wisdom of Ancestral Nutrition Can Save People and Planet
Stephen Lucke
Recipe4Health: Sourcing Food as Medicine with Regenerative and Organic Agriculture
Deuterium Content of All Foods and Why it Matters
What are Prebiotics and Why You Need Them for Good Gut Health
Cultivating Health through the Seasons with Chinese Medicine
Erika Allen and Geeta Maker-Clark
Poster Session with Q & A
Gender Equality: The Pathway to Food Systems Security, Economic Sustainability and Ecological Preservation
Food Literacy in Health & Wellness
Food As Medicine Group Visits
Flourish at SHAC: A Student-led Food Insecurity and Nutrition Education Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill
Sabrina Falquier
Challenging the Commoditization of Food through Food Justice
The Concept of Food Pairing & Food Substitution
Coming to Common Ground: A Call to Action to Work for Soil Health Towards Improved Human and Planetary Health
Mary Purdy
Community Building Opportunities Regional & Interest Groups
Jamie Harvie Jessica Hutchings
Film Screening with Panel Discussion
The Kitchenistas
Closing 5:30-6:00
Welcome! Conference Opening
Thursday, May 18, 2023
8:00 - 8:30 AM PT
Patricia StandTal Clarke, MD, DMin
Heather Carrie, MAS
S. Prasad Vinjamury, MD (Ayurveda), DACM, MPH
Daniel F. Gallego-Pérez, MD, DrPH
Melina Meza, BSN, 500-Hour RYT, Ayurvedic Health Educator, Author
StretchBreaks with MelinaMeza
Thursday,May18th
11:00-11:15AMPT 1:15-1:30PMPT
Friday, May 19th 11:00-11:15 AM PT 1:15-1:30 PM PT 3:15-3:30 PM PT
Saturday, May 20th 11:00-11:15 AM PT 1:15 -1:30 PM PT 3:15 -3:30 PM PT
KEYNOTE
Afshan Omar, HBSc, Environmental Science, Permaculture Designer
Connecting Human Health to Environmental Health
Thursday, May 18, 2023
9:00 - 10:00 AM PT
Dr. Hernán José García Ramírez
La dieta de la Milpa
Thursday, May 18, 2023
10:15 AM- 11:00 AM PT
Ricardo Ghelman, MD, PhD
Experiences in Medical Education in Brazil: From the concepts of integrative pediatrics to clinical practice
Thais Mauad, Associate Professor
Sao Paulo University Medical School
Teaching Culinary Medicine in Brazil
Thursday, May 18, 2023
11:15 AM- 12:00 PM PT
Mariah Gladstone Creator and Owner of Indigikitchen
A Recipe for Resilience
Thursday, May 18, 2023
12:15 - 1:15 PM PT
Iracema Benevides, MD, MIHMEP
Partnership between Anthroposophic Medicine and Agriculture Experience in Brazil
Vera Salvo, Nutritionist
Mindful Eating in the Brazilian Public Health System
Thursday, May 18, 2023
1:30 PM - 2:15 PM PT
Leadership as a Tool for Community Transformation
Thursday May 18, 2023
2:30- 3:15 PM PT
Scarlet Soriano, MD, ABOIM
SandraDarling,DO,MPH
ChefGabbyShipta
ChefJimPerkoSr.CEC,AAC
KEYNOTE
Plant People
Thursday, May 18, 2023 4:30 - 5:30 PT
Patricia StandTal Clarke, MD, DMin
GATHER Film Screening
Thursday, May 18, 2023
5:45 - 7:00 PM PT
Traditional Western Apache Food Forager Educator from San Carlos Arizona
Healing through connecting with Mother Earth
Friday, May 19, 2023
8:00 - 9:00 AM PT
Twila Cassadore, San Carlos Apache
Who is at the center of your food is medicine program?
Friday, May 19, 2023
9:15 - 10:00 AM PT
Mekenzie Gear, MPH
Monica Bledsoe, Director
Maddy Frey, MPH
Johnnie Thomas, RN
Sarah Moore, MPH
Community-Driven Efforts to Improve Food Access for Immigrant Families
Friday, May 19, 2023 10:15 - 11:00 AM PT
Steve Mei, Director CPC Brooklyn Community Services
Stella Yi, PhD, MPH
Liz Dowd, Director of Farm Operations
Sze Wan (Celine) Chan, MPH, CHES
Katie Barth, MPH (Summer 2023)
Michelle Lynn Hughes, Associate Director of Regional Food Programs
Steven Schindler, Executive Director, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
Forgotten Discoveries of Health Pioneers: How the Wisdom of Ancestral Nutrition Can Save People and Planet
Friday, May 19, 2023
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM PT
KEYNOTE
Stephen Lucke, MA
Growing Healthy Communities - Working with private and public partners to address unhealthy lifestyles through urban agriculture
Friday, May 19, 2023
12:15 - 1:15 PM PT
Recipe4Health: Sourcing Food as Medicine with Regenerative and Organic Agriculture
Friday, May 19, 2023
1:30 - 2:15 PM PT
Sasha Shankar Co-Farm Director
Lisa Goldman Rosas, PhD, MPH
Elizabeth Markle, PhD
Troy Horton Co-Farm Director
Steven Chen, MD Chief Medical Officer
Deuterium Content of All Foods and Why it Matters
Friday, May 19, 2023 2:30 - 3:15 PM PT
Chris Latham, MS, CNS, CKNS
What are Prebiotics and Why You Need Them for Good Gut Health
Friday, May 19, 2023
3:30 - 4:15 PM PT
Mary Purdy, MS, RDN
Climate Smart Food: Nourishing People and Planet
Friday, May 19, 2023 4:30 - 5:30 PM PT
Friday, May 19, 2023
5:45 - 7:00 PM PT
Quechua Midwife, Director of Ancestral Medicine & Interculturality, Health Ministry of Bolivia
Saturday, May 20, 2023
8:00 - 9:00 AM PT
Vivian Camacho, MD
Elise Cushman, MS, RD, CSO
Setting Up Cooking Demonstrations in Cancer Centers: A Recipe for Success
Saturday, May 20, 2023 9:15 - 10:00 AM PT
Naturopathic Doctors Championing
Food as Medicine in Community Health Clinics
Saturday, May 20, 2023
10:15 - 11:00 AM PT
Adam Sadowski, Gordon, ND, FNP, RN
Alicia Spalding, ND
Ellen Goldsmith, MSOM, L.Ac., Diplomat Chinese Herbalism
Cultivating Health through the Seasons with Chinese Medicine
Saturday, May 20, 2023
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM PT
Erika Allen, CEO, Urban Growers Collective & Geeta Maker-Clark, MD, ABOIM
Healing BIPOC Communities through Food, Nourishment, Movement and Justice: Medicine for All People
Saturday, May 20, 2023
12:15 - 1:15 PM PT
POSTER
Wei-Chen Lee, PhD
Associations between Food Insecurity and Medical Expenditures : What Are Differences by Race and Ethnicity?
Saturday, May 20, 2023
1:30 - 2:15 PM PT
The Physical and Mental Health Effects of Healthcare Gardens and Farms
Saturday, May 20, 2023
1:30 - 2:15 PM PT
Russell McIntire, PhD, MPH
Jackie Massuda, MS
Food Literacy in Health & Wellness
Saturday, May 20, 2023
3:30 - 4:15 PM PT
Stephanie White, EdD, Chef
Reconnecting to the Sacred: Food Systems and Lessons from our Planet Teacher
Saturday, May 20, 2023
4:30 - 5:30 PM PT
Jamie Harvie, P.E.
Oluwole
Olakunle Ajayi, B.TECH, MNIM, MISMN, SM.APHA, SM.SID, PMP, M.A (IN-VIEW)
Gender Equality: The Pathway to Food Systems Security, Economic Sustainability and Ecological Preservation
Saturday, May 20, 2023 2:30 - 3:15 PM PT
Saturday, May 20, 2023
5:45 - 7:15 PM PT
PattyCorona
MaryAnnBeyster
Activist-in-Residence, University of Guelph
You're Eating Injustice
Sunday, May 21, 2023
8:00 - 9:00 AM PT
Gabriel Allahdua
Sunday May 21, 2023 9:15 - 10:00 AM PT
Joseph Bogaard, Executive Director
Food as Medicine in Group Medical Visits
Sunday May 21, 2023
10:15 - 11:00 AM PT
Cheryl Martin, MD
Shalini Singh-Karnik, MD
Denise Coventry, RD
Flourish at SHAC: A Student-led Food
Insecurity and Nutrition Education Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill
Sunday May 21, 2023
11:15 AM - 12:00 PM PT
Malik Tiedt, BSPH Nutrition Science, BA Medical Anthropology
Christina Boelkins, BA
KEYNOTE
From Doctor Coat to Culinary Apron: Food as Medicine From A Culinary Medicine Perspective
Sunday, May 21, 2023
12:15 - 1:15 PM PT
Sabrina Falquier, MD, CCMS
Assistant Professor, Simon Fraser University
Challenging the Commoditization of Food through Food Justice
Sunday, May 21, 2023
1:30 - 2:15 PM PT
Tammara Soma, PhD
Sheila Mary, MD, ND, MPH, Student Midwife
The Concept of Food Pairing & Food Substitution
Sunday, May 21, 2023
2:30 - 3:15 PM PT
Coming Together on Common Ground: A Call to Action to Work for Soil Health Towards Improved Human and Planetary Health
Sunday, May 21, 2023
3:30 - 4:15 PM PT
Arti Chandra, MD, MPH
KEYNOTE
Jessica Hutchings (Ngāi Tahu, Ngāti Huirapa, Gujarati), PhD
Kai Atua: Food for Hope and Wellbeing
Sunday, May 21, 2023
4:30 - 5:30 PM PT
Closing Ceremony
Sunday, May 21, 2023
5:30 -6:00 PM PT
Patricia StandTal Clarke, MD, DMin
Heather Carrie, MAS
S. Prasad Vinjamury, MD (Ayurveda), DACM, MPH
Daniel F. Gallego-Pérez, MD, DrPH
