Recipes for Food is Medicine: In the Teaching Kitchen with Dr. Farmer & Dr. Krenek

Watch this riveting webinar on two NIH Scientists with different approaches to Culinary Medicine in the "RECIPE FOR FOOD IS MEDICINE: CULINARY MEDICINE AND TEACHING KITCHENS".
Dr. Nicole Farmer is a Staff Scientist and Attending Physician at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center. She is the Acting Head of the Dietary Behaviors and Biopsychosocial Health Section within the Translational Biobehavioral and Health Disparities Department and an adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at the George Washington School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Farmer’s research focus may be categorized into three major areas: psychosocial outcomes of health behaviors, the role of cooking interventions on dietary behaviors and cardiovascular outcomes, and mechanisms of health disparities.

Dr. Farmer provides an overview of culinary medicine and teaching kitchens across Food is Medicine programming as well as evidence on metabolic, psychosocial, and dietary benefits of interdisciplinary cooking interventions. Intervention designs in addition to results of a plant-based culinary medicine teaching kitchen among clinical patients at risk for cardiovascular disease will be discussed

Dr. Andrea Krenek is a registered dietitian, chef, and research fellow at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases within the National Institutes of Health. Her doctoral research at the University of Florida focused on the effects of dietary, culinary medicine, and teaching kitchen interventions on cardiometabolic, psychological, and nutritional outcomes.

Dr. Krenek received her PhD from the University of Florida / IFAS working with Dr. Anne Matthews, Assistant Dean of the College of Life Sciences, who shared her Food is Medicine passion. Thank you Dr. Anne Matthews for this stunning collaboration in assembling this webinar presentation.