Food & Culture in 2021: Panel Discussion

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/

Robert Lustig
Robert Lustig is Professor emeritus of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He specializes in the field of neuroendocrinology, with an emphasis on the regulation of energy balance by the central nervous system.

His research and clinical practice has focused on childhood obesity and diabetes. Dr. Lustig has fostered a global discussion of metabolic health and nutrition, exposing some of the leading myths that underlie the current pandemic of diet-related disease. He believes the food business, by pushing processed food loaded with sugar, has hacked our bodies and minds to pursue pleasure instead of happiness, fostering today’s epidemics of addiction and depression. Yet by focusing on real food,we can beat the odds against sugar, processed food, obesity, and disease.

The New York Times bestselling author’s new book, Metabolical, explains the eight pathologies that underlie all chronic disease, documents how processed food has impacted them to ruin our health, economy, and environment over the past 50 years, and proposes an urgent manifesto and strategy to cure both us and the planet.

Wolfram Alderson
Wolfram Alderson's life-long pursuit of social and environmental change has spanned over four decades. Wolfram's career began in his teens when he founded the first Certified Farmers' Markets in California in 1979. He has demonstrated his leadership in many food-system-change areas, including urban agriculture, school gardening, and nutrition education that has reached millions online. Focused intensively on the field of metabolic health and nutrition, Wolfram has demonstrated his leadership on a global scale, working in non-profit and for-profit sectors.

Wolfram serves as CEO of the Hypoglycemia Support Foundation, Founder/CEO of the Robert H. Lustig Research Foundation, Co-Founder of Perfact Corporation, and Executive Manager of Health & Nutrition at KDD, a leading food and beverage company based in the middle east. In addition, Wolfram supports a team of international experts committed to accelerating a metabolic paradigm shift to combat a global syndemic of preventable diet-related diseases. Wolfram loves to cook and garden at his home in San Francisco, California, which he shares with his wife and two cats.

Kevin Vos
Kevin Vos is the Senior Director of Hospitality Support Services for Spectrum Health Delivery System. He is responsible for the strategic planning as well as the oversight of high quality patient and guest services functions across our nationally awarded integrated health system. Whether Kevin is concentrating on disrupting the typical “institutional” food chain or coming up with unique solutions to help change nutritional behavioral, Kevin’s goal is to improve the health of the community through nourishment, education and wellness. Most recently, Kevin was awarded the spotlight award from the Association of Healthcare Foodservice. The AHF Spotlight Award is presented to members who have enhanced operations through technology, program development, implementation, innovation and/or creative use of managing finances. Kevin is very proud of the entire Nutrition Services team at Spectrum for this recognition.

Kevin is a Juilliard trained professional musician that entered into the world of health care eight years ago as the Director of Food and Nutrition for Spectrum Health Rehabilitation and Nursing Centers. Over Kevin’s tenure at Spectrum Health he has held business leadership positions outside of Nutrition Services as administrator of Neuro Rehabilitation Home Care, Spectrum’s private duty home care company, as well as programmatic director responsible for growing the home and community technology solutions for Continuing Care.

Kevin holds a bachelors and masters degree in music performance from Juilliard and the University of Illinois, as well as an executive MBA degree from Grand Valley State University. He is a resident instructor of leadership development courses taught through the Spectrum Health University.

Lawrence Deyton
Lawrence Deyton, MDAs Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Public Health, Dr. Lawrence Deyton is creating new curriculum and pedagogy for medical education to teach medical students the principles of public health, population health, and leadership in medical care and health systems decision-making. These are the tools that are required of clinicians who practice in 21st Century health care systems. Dr. Deyton is well-positioned to work with Dr. Harlan and the GW CulinaryMedicine team to facilitate, lead, and catalyze discussions on the scalability of culinary medicine across the spectrum of health professional education.