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:

Check back for event dates!

Past Events: 

Current Interest Group Leaders, Class of 2027: 

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