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Session Type: APA SIG

APA SIG: Nutrition and Food is Medicine

Friday, April 25, 2025
4:00pm – 5:30pm HST
Location: Convention Center: 323
CE: 1.5

    SIG Chair(s)

  • Alicia Tucker, MD (she/her/hers)

    Attending Pediatrician in the Children's National IDEAL Clinic, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Children's National Hospital and GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Director of Education at the GW Culinary Medicine Program
    Children's National Health System
    Alexandria, Virginia, United States

Disclosure(s):
Alicia Tucker, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

The Nutrition and Food is Medicine SIG brings together pediatricians and healthcare professionals to share evidence-based research, education, and clinical practice experience that supports integration of nutrition interventions into healthcare.
This session will provide an update on the Food is Medicine landscape in the United States and focus attention to two rapidly developing areas in the field: improving nutrition curriculum in graduate medical education and identifying sustainable funding and reimbursement models for Food is Medicine interventions. Doctor Ileana Vargas, pediatric endocrinologist and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Columbia University will review proposals to improve integration of nutrition competencies in Graduate medical education and discuss her current work to enhance nutrition education for trainees. Participants will review and discuss practical implications, opportunities, and barriers to integrating current recommendations into the academic community. Next, we will be joined by a panel of FiM practitioners to learn practical tips on how Food is Medicine is being implemented in private/academic and community-based settings. Dr. Michelle Loy, MD, DipABOIM, DipABLM, DABMA, FAAP, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics from Weill Cornell Medical College will facilitate the panel discussion and discussants are pending based on PAS abstract reviews. Finally, participants will break out into groups to further discuss practical implementation of nutrition education in Graduate medical education or billing and coding within their practice communities.

Learning Objectives:

  • describe the multidisciplinary approach to Food is Medicine and how to collaborate across disciplines to better integrate nutrition into the current healthcare model
  • recognize upcoming proposals to improve integration of nutrition competencies in graduate medical education
  • learn practical tools such as funding access and billing and coding to support launching a reimbursing your food is medicine program

Presentations:

  • 4:00pm – 4:20pm HST
    Welcome and Trending Topics in Food is Medicine
  • 4:20pm – 4:45pm HST
    Improving Nutrition Education for Pediatric Residents: How culinary medicine can impact patients and trainees

    SIG Speaker: Ileana Vargas, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons

  • 4:45pm – 5:15pm HST
    Practical Implementation of Food is Medicine in Clinical Practice

    SIG Speaker: Michelle Loy, MD FAAP (she/her/hers) – Weill Cornell Medicine/New York Presbyterian

  • 5:15pm – 5:30pm HST
    Break-out for networking and small group discussion