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- Co-founder at ChefMD LLC
- Author and Practicing Physician at Santa Barbara Institute for Medical Nutrition and Healthy Weight
- Motivational Speaker, Spokesperson, Research Director at CHEF Clinic
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John La Puma, M.D.’s Summary
"Food as medicine doc"
*I'm board-certified in internal medicine, a professionally trained chef and a New York Times best-selling author for RealAge and for ChefMD. I am lucky to co-host Lifetime TV's "Health Corner" Sunday mornings with Joan Lunden, and have every week since 2006 (over 100 shows!).
I am interested in the stories people tell. My work is now about the lives of health-conscious, food-loving, choice-interested people. My clinical nutrition practice, TV work, teaching, writing and cooking I do have people's stories at their heart.
How did I get to nutrition and cooking from ethics? I did the first postgraduate fellowship in clinical medical ethics, at the University of Chicago, founded the first community hospital clinical ethics center in the U.S. and wrote many papers and books.
But something was missing: I'd gained a lot of weight worrying about my work, and so, went to cooking school to learn how to make a healthful diet taste good...and to learn what to tell my patients. Now, I want to give people easy ways to control their lives with what they eat, make hospital food therapeutic, and much more, and finally can.
I graduated from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago (a Le Cordon Bleu School), worked at Rick Bayless' Topolobampo once weekly for 4 years, and then taught the first cooking and nutrition course in the U.S. for medical students, at SUNY-Upstate with YOU Doc and RealAge Diet-co-author Michael Roizen, MD. My ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine (Crown, 2008) reached the New York Times best-seller list, as did the RealAge Diet. It's still a blast!
John La Puma, M.D.’s Experience
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Co-founder
ChefMD LLC
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
January 2005 — Present (5 years 2 months)
*Brand development, spokesperson, web site content development, core messaging.
* Television content development, presentation, talent, dialogue editing.
* Co-development of mission, vision, identity across all platforms.
* Scientific research team leader, recruitment; data review and analysis.
* Author, ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine (an easy new approach to the question: "What do you eat for that?").
ChefMD®'s LLC mission is to inspire health-conscious consumers to look, feel and actually be measurably healthier with what they eat.
ChefMD® is a health and media company whose vision is a health-driven lifestyle which offers a powerful new way for health-conscious consumers to eat and enjoy food--as medicine, too. -
Author and Practicing Physician
Santa Barbara Institute for Medical Nutrition and Healthy Weight
(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)
2002 — Present (8 years )
I have a nutrition-focused, results-oriented, small and highly engaged specialty medical practice which specializes in weight loss and hard-to-solve nutritional problems.
Patients are seen in Santa Barbara for an in person visit and interview, and programs are usually conducted long distance after an initial appointment. -
Motivational Speaker, Spokesperson, Research Director
CHEF Clinic
(Hospital & Health Care industry)
1996 — Present (14 years )
Cooking, Healthy Eating and Fitness (C.H.E.F.) Clinic has two arms: promotion and research.
* Media host, spokesperson, talent and representative.
* Principal strategic advisor for formation of new relationships, especially collaborative product review, design and implementation.
*Scientific advisor and researcher.
CHEF Clinic began as a research project in suburban Chicago. With grant support from the American Medical Association, it grew to a nationally recognized, research-based clinic and weight loss program. Clients have included RealAge, Caremark, Cigna, Kraft, more.
Current research concerns include:
*pediatric obesity;
*disease management programs, especially obesity and diabetes;
*corporate wellness and its ROI;
*improving hospital, conference, hotel and resort-related meals.
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