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2025 Speakers
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Reach out to our team to discuss speaking opportunities and share your expertise with the Food as Medicine Community!

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Pej Rassapour

Head of Content

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Join us as a Speaker

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Marc R. Watkins, MD

Chief Medical Officer

Kroger

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Amanda  Ryan

Deputy Director, State and Population Health Group

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

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Lori Taylor

Drivers of Health Program Lead, Drivers of Health Strategy, Mkt & Corporate Social Responsibility

Blue Cross NC

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Malaika Stoll

Senior Medical Director

Blue Shield of California

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Caree Cotwright

Former Director of Nutrition & Security & Health Equity

USDA

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Livleen Gill

President

Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

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Erin Martin

Co-Founder & CEO

FreshRx Oklahoma

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Katie Stebbins

Executive Director, Food & Nutrition Innovation Institute

The Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University

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Scott Bowman

Co-Founder

The NOURISH Movement

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Heidi Greenwaldt

Nutrition Director

Sodexo

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Benjamin Waltz

Sr. Product Owner Social Drivers of Health

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota

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Shaan Chaturvedi

Director, Product Innovation

Samsung

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Samantha Alexander

CEO & Founder

Bitewell

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Chetna Gupta

Sr. Director of Product - Nutrition tech and Personalization

Albertsons

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Taylor Meredith

Education Policy Advisor

Pilot Light

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Katelyn Smoger

Director of Food is Medicine and The Farm

Trinity Health

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Keni Winchester

Director of Strategy and Community Engagement, Humana Foundation

Humana

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Amy Starr

Sr. Manager, MindBody Medicine Operations

Blue Shield of California

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Amy Bloomquist

Director of Customer Success

NourishedRx

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Jen Lane

Vice President, Healthcare Programming

Modify Health

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Teddy Kennedy

Food is Medicine Management Consultant

Accenture

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Ashley Hartman

Managing Partner

Bluestein Ventures

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Tambra Stevenson

Founder & CEO

WANDA: Women Advancing Nutrition Dietetics & Agriculture

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Jaclyn Albin

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, & Public Health

UT Southwestern Medical Center

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Sherry Frey

VP of Total Wellness

NielsenIQ

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Corby Kummer

Executive Director, Food & Society

Aspen Institute

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Deirdre McGinley-Gieser

Chief Strategy & Impact Officer

Meals on Wheels

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Daniel Riff

Head of Government & Nonprofit Operations

DoorDash

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Tara Schmidt

Lead Registered Dietitian

Mayo Clinic

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Martin Tull

Chief Impact Officer

American College of Lifestyle Medicine

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Anna Lin-Schweitzer

Associate Director, Feeding Change

Milken Institute

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Alan Shannon

Public Affairs Director

USDA

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Stacey Curzon

Program Manager, Whole Health & Fitness

Walmart

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Tornia Anderson Morgan

Registered Dietitian

Trifecta Health Solutions

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Erica David-Park

Market Chief Medical Officer, Community Health Choices

AmeriHealth Caritas

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Stephen Lupe

Head, Behavioral Health in the Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition

Cleveland Clinic

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Stephen Jennings

Brand Lead, Health & Sustainability

Ahold Delhaize USA

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Julianna Morse

Director Food is Medicine

United Way of New York City

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Katherine Pett

Senior Scientist - Nutrition

Kraft Heinz

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Sara Torrence

VP of Sales | Board Member

Socially Determined | March of Dimes

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Brenda Leigh

Director of Lifestyle Medicine

ECU Health

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Michael Cabonargi

Former Regional Director

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

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Stacey Bates

Director Wellness Nutrition Strategy

H-E-B

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Tristin Sullivan-Leppa

Deputy HR Director, Benefits & Wellness

City of Phoenix

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Teresa Chapman

Chief People Officer

Santa Clara Family Health Plan

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Olivia Thomas

Director of Nutrition Innovation and Implementation

Boston Medical Center

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Ed Gaskin

Executive Director, Greater Grove Hall Main Streets

Columnist, Boston Herald

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Krista Yoder

COO

Food Health Collective

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Shreela Sharma

Co Founder

Brighter Bites

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Daniella Harmon

Director of Community Development

Appalachian Regional Healthcare

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Peter Wells

Project Director

Project FoodBox

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Rashim Gupta

Owner & Physician

Whole Endo

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Dr. Deepti Agarwal

Medical Director

Precision Medical Care

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Stephen Devries

Adjunct Associate Professor of Nutrition

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

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Mory Bahar

CEO

Personal Remedies

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Sarah Valentine

Program Head

Digital Medicine So

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Galen Karlan-Mason

CEO & Founder

GreenChoice, PBC

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Jim Howard

Former Founder & CEO

Journey’s Metabolic

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Courtney Younglove

Founder & Physician

Heartland Weight Loss

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Erica Padilla Chavez

CEO

Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz

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Mary Anne Kiel

Pediatrician

USAF Medical Center

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Kate Maehr

CEO

Greater Chicago Food Depository

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Grace Noboa Hidalgo

Former Head of Product

Walgreens

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Victor Penev

Founder and CEO

Edamam

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Elizabeth Machnica

Director of Health & Wellbeing

Buffalo Niagara Medical Center

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Melanie Hall

Chief Research & Innovation Officer

Feeding America

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Michael Lawsky

CEO

Nutrition For Longevity

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Romy Nelson

Employee Health & Wellness Manager

City of Mesa

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Judy Simon

Consultant

 

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Adam Wallace

Director

Instacart Health

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Howard Haft

Adjunct Professor of Medicine

University of Maryland School of Medicine

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Kristi Artz

Vice President, University Hospitals Connor Whole Health | 
Christopher M. and Sara H. Connor Chair in Integrative Health

University Hospitals

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Josh  J. Gregoire 

Assistant Vice President, Quality & Performance Improvement & VMG Clinical Operations

Valley Health System

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Malvina De Salvo

Founder & CEO

Plateful

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Anna Garwood 

Research Project Coordinator, Nourish 

Doernbecher Children's Hospital at Oregon Health and Science University 

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Ellen Brown

Co-Founder and Partner 

BP2 Health

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Chris Lew

Principal

Rock Health

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Tanya Little

Chief Commercial Officer

Vitality

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Mona Shah

Lead Clinical Dietitian

Kaiser Permanente

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Rebecca Jungbauer 

Researcher and Project Manager 

Pacific Northwest Evidence-based Practice Center at Oregon Health and Science University

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Carter Williams

CEO and Managing Director

iSelect Fund

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Hope Barkoukis

Director of the Culinary Medicine program

Case Western Reserve University Fund

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Priscilla Wang

Associate Medical Director, Primary Care Health Equity

Mass General Brigham

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Sunny Sharma

Internal Medicine Physician & Regional Medical Officer

Ascension

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Tara Schmidt

Lead Registered Dietitian

Mayo Clinic

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Raeanne Sarazen, MA, RD

Food and Nutrition Writer, Editor, Speaker, Consultant

Culinary Nutrition Consulting

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Shannon Huneke

Consumer Healthcare

SPH Consulting

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Fahad Zubair

Medical Director Obesity and Nutrition Medicine

Allegheny Health Network

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