Panel: Health Coaching, Culinary Medicine, the Diabetes Prevention Program & Obesity Interventions

Описание: This program was part of the 2021 Health meets Food: The Culinary Medicine Conference. To register for this year's conference click through to: https://culinarymedicine.org/conference/

Abby Cabrera
Abby Cabrera is a public health professional at UCSF’s Center for Excellence in Primary Care (CEPC) with a passion for improving health equity and decreasing health disparities through public health and primary care research, utilizing community engagement and health coach assisted studies; has experience in developing community health needs assessments, grant-funded project management, program planning, implementation and evaluation, quantitative and qualitative research, and coalition building aimed at improving health and well-being by addressing the social determinants of health.

CEPC identifies, develops, tests, and disseminates promising innovations in primary care to improve the patient experience, enhance population health and health equity, reduce the cost of care, and restore joy and satisfaction in the practice of primary care.

Kristy McCarron
Kristy McCarron is the Association Director of Community Health for the YMCA of Metropolitan Washington. In this position, she oversees community-clinical integration, behavioral health interventions, and food and nutrition initiatives. Additionally, she provides technical assistance to YMCAs across the country with teaching kitchens and anti-hunger programs. Kristy was appointed by Mayor Muriel Bowser for Washington DC’s Food Policy Council and the Commission for Healthy Youth and Schools. She has a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins with a focus on Food Systems and Nutrition for Public Health, and was awarded the Excellence in US Public Health Practice for her Teaching Kitchen Toolkit.

Ryan Hampton
My experience in healthcare over the past fourteen years has focused heavily on operations, quality, safety, experience and data analytics. This experience has made me an expert in process improvement, leading change, data collection, production, operations, analysis, and presentation of reports for improving clinical processes and outcomes. Using these skills, I have managed both internal and external customer communications and worked closely with health system administrators, physicians, and nursing leadership.

My contributions have resulted in new clinical service lines, joint ventures, business opportunities, improved patient experience, better quality of care, improved safety, system efficiencies and provided teams with immediate access to information. I always keep the end-user experience in mind throughout the design process, thus allowing me to add value to the solutions I produce for diverse groups of individuals.

Kofi Essel, MD
Dr. Essel is a board-certified community pediatrician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Children’s National and The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GWUSMHS). Dr. Essel also serves as the Director of the GWUSMHS Community/Urban Health Scholarly Concentration for medical students and is a contributor on the Clinical Public Health Leadership Team. He has over 10 years of experience in nutrition and obesity education. His advocacy work and research revolves around health care training, health disparities and community engagement, with a special interest and national recognition in the areas of addressing obesity and food insecurity in families.

Dr. Essel grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas and had dreams of becoming a doctor and going to the NBA (at the same time). He is happily married, has a daughter and loves cooking and spending time with his family.