Culinary Medicine Interest Group

Mission:

To improve the understanding and utilization of healthy, nutritious foods among future medical professionals, patients, and community members.

The Culinary Medicine Interest Group aims to engage in service-learning activities to empower students and community members 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 use food as a measure to prevent and treat chronic diseases.

Upcoming Events/Goals:

  • Girlscouts go to Medical School Event

  • Cooking classes for patients and students at Wesley Clinic

  • Lunch talks and interactive events with guest speakers/chefs

  • Influence on-campus food quality

  • Culinary Medicine educational elective / on-campus teaching kitchen

Check back for event dates!

Past Events:

  • Cooking Demos at Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market

  • Cardiology Academy Food Demonstration

Current Interest Group Leaders, Class of 2026:

Ariana Cano

arianacano@arizona.edu

Hannah Burman

hannahburman@arizona.edu

Nina Gautam

ninagautam@arizona.edu


Lauren Schutz

laurenschutz@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

In The News:

"Culinary Medicine Crafts Healthy Alternatives for Diabetes Patients"

http://phoenixmed.arizona.edu/about/news/culinary-medicine-crafts-healthy-alternatives-diabetes-patients

"Wesley Center Integrates Wellness into Patient Care"

http://phoenixmed.arizona.edu/about/news/wesley-center-integrates-wellness-patient-care

History:

Culinary Medicine Interest Group was founded in March 2017.

Previous Interest Group Leaders:

Class of 2025:

Nicholas Chartrand, nchartrand@arizona.edu

Lyndon Bui, lyndonbui@arizona.edu

Jennifer Li, jenniferli@arizona.edu

Chap-Kay Lau, cklau@arizona.edu

Class of 2024:

Catherine Ingbar, cingbar@email.arizona.edu

Sean Youn, sbsyoun@email.arizona.edu

Ruoyan Zhu, zhur@email.arizona.edu

Jessica Dong, jessicadong@email.arizona.edu

Class of 2023:

Sukriti Bagchi, sbagchi@email.arizona.edu

Leeann Qubain, leeannqubain@email.arizona.edu

Deborah Yang, dsyang@email.arizona.edu

Class of 2022:

Tyler Bien, Julie Tran

Class of 2021:

Gurman Dhaliwal, Manroop Kaur, Cornel Popescu

Class of 2020:

Sarah Javaherifar, Sarah Loh, Daniel Salevitz