IN-PERSON WORKSHOP: Integrating Culinary Medicine Across Diverse Practice Settings and Resources

HANDS-ON TEACHING KITCHEN SESSION

Workshop Description: Culinary medicine (CM) presents an engaging, evidence-based means to transform healthcare delivery and lifestyle behaviors by reaching and empowering providers across settings and geographic areas to incorporate hands-on nutrition education and community-building into their practice. While an increasing number of providers, reflecting various disciplines, are increasingly interested in learning about nutrition and specifically culinary medicine, many still lack the specific knowledge and resources to begin to implement it in practice. In the current healthcare landscape, institutional budgets are increasingly tight, necessitating creativity among providers to determine feasible models for integrating into practice. Therefore, this workshop aims to inspire and empower diverse healthcare providers to work with interdisciplinary teams to improve healthcare delivery, patients’ health outcomes, and providers’ well-being through CM. Attendees will practice hands-on cooking and learn skills that will help them adapt lessons and recipes based on available resources and team members. They will leave the workshop with an understanding of potential approaches across a broad spectrum of potential starting places.