About the Food is Life, Food is Health Summit
Global Plant-Forward Flavors on our Tables | Sustainability in our Kitchens | Culinary Medicine for a Healthier World
Food is Life, Food is Health is an annual gathering of chefs, physicians and allied health professionals, and sustainability experts learning and working together—side by side—across disciplines to advance personal and planetary health.
Designed for Medical/Healthcare and Culinary/Foodservice Professionals
The summit program is designed for a diverse professional audience, principally representing both the culinary and healthcare/medical sectors:
Healthcare/Medical/Nutrition Professionals and Sustainability Experts:
Physicians and other healthcare practitioners (Registered Dietitian Nutritionists, Physician Assistants, Registered Nurses, and Pharmacists) who want to more deeply explore healthy, sustainable, culturally relevant food and culinary solutions for patient care and chronic disease prevention.
Nutrition and sustainability professionals, educators and others interested in food is medicine, culinary insights around wellness, and healthy, sustainable, plant-forward food cultures.
Culinary Professionals:
Chefs currently working in the healthcare sector (e.g., hospital foodservice, healthcare-based teaching kitchens)
Chefs outside of healthcare with a strong professional focus on nutrition, wellness, and food is medicine (e.g., sports medicine/performance nutrition, personal chefs, corporate wellness programs, wellness centers, etc.)
Chefs outside of healthcare with a more general interest in nutrition/wellness, food is medicine, sustainable culinary strategies, and healthy, global plant-forward food cultures.
Chefs in the above categories who are interested in the opportunity to gain education in food, health/wellness, and the emerging food is medicine space while earning continuing education credits for culinary professionals. Culinary professionals will also have the opportunity to gain a Food is Life, Food is Health micro-credential.
What’s in a Name?
To support clear communication with your teams, colleagues, the media, patients, and customers about nutrition, health and wellness, and sustainable diets, we’ve outlined some recommended naming conventions.
About The Culinary Institute of America
The Culinary Institute of America (CIA) is a private, not-for-profit college dedicated to bettering the nation and the world by means of outstanding education (offering associate, bachelor’s and master’s degree programs), practice, and scholarship on all aspects of food and the enterprises related to it. Through a transformative learning experience, the CIA prepares future food leaders, innovators, and experts for personal and professional success. From professional conferences to invitational retreats, sector collaboratives, tastings and cultural immersions, operational research, award-winning digital media production, editorial resource development, custom content solutions and more, the CIA’s thought leadership initiatives give chefs, high-volume menu decision makers, industry business leaders, and experts from around the globe the tools they need to anticipate and help shape what will be on our plates in the next year, next decade, and beyond. Through these various platforms and initiatives, the CIA works to advance key imperatives and opportunities around health and wellness, sustainability and food ethics, global cultural diversity, hospitality, technology, and—more broadly—innovation.
About Stanford Medicine
A leader in the biomedical revolution, Stanford Medicine has a long tradition of leadership in pioneering research, creative teaching protocols and effective clinical therapies.
Representing the collective strength of the Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford Health Care, and Stanford Children’s Health, Stanford Medicine draws on the full resources of the university — including the Schools of Business, Sustainability, Law, Humanities and Sciences, Education, and Engineering — as well as the innovation ecosystem of Silicon Valley to accelerate the translation of discovery into improved human health.
