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.

Goals:

• 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 

Past Events: 

• Cooking Demos at Downtown Phoenix Farmers Market

• Cardiology Academy Food Demonstration

Sarah Bedor

 sarahbedor@arizona.edu

Janan Zeng

jzeng@arizona.edu