Mission: The Culinary Interest Group aims to empower students to make smart choices about their diet through education in the culinary arts. Students will become authorities on healthy cooking through hands-on instruction, which will encourage them to prescribe food as medicine and effectively teach their patients to treat food as a measure to prevent chronic diseases.  Current Interest Group Leaders, Class of 2022:   Julie Tran Tyler Bien julietran@email.arizona.edu tymbien@email.arizona.edu Faculty Mentor:  Farshad Fani Marvasti, MD, MPH Director, Prevention, Public Health and Health Promotion Assistant Professor of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine ffm@email.arizona.edu | Upcoming Events/Goals: 1) Expansion on the existing Wellness Market: cooking demos, competitions, monthly market themes 2) Diabetes Intervention Program at the Wesley Clinic 3) Campus Teaching Kitchen 4) Lunch Talks/Guest Speakers ...stay tuned! Past Events: History:  Culinary Medicine Interest Group was founded in March 2017. Previous Interest Group Leaders: Class of 2021: Gurman Dhaliwal, gdhaliwal@email.arizona.edu Manroop Kaur, manroopkaur@email.arizona.edu Cornel Popescu, corneliup@email.arizona.edu Class of 2020: Sarah Javaherifar, sjava@email.arizona.edu Sarah Loh, sarahloh@email.arizona.edu Daniel Salevitz, dsalevitz@email.arizona.edu In The News: "Culinary Medicine Crafts Healthy Alternatives for Diabetes Patients" |
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