Breakout Sessions

 

Each day, four breakout sessions will be held concurrently to allow smaller groups to connect on a variety of topics. The goal of each breakout session is to provide a platform for meaningful discussion on each topic: to explore what questions and issues exist, and what unaddressed issues require additional discovery. 

 

*** All times listed are EST. ***

 

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11

1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 1: Precision Nutrition

 
Following the presentation by Frank Hu, this breakout will solicit ideas on how teaching kitchens can be optimally positioned and engaged as translational research laboratories.
  

Moderator:

  • Frank Hu, MD, MPH, PhD, Fredrick J. Stare Professor of Nutrition and Epidemiology Chair, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Discussants:

  • Mladen Golubic, Medical Director, Center for Lifestyle Medicine , Cleveland Clinic, Lyndhurst, OH
  • Nicole Farmer, Staff Scientist, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, MD

Breakout Session 2: International Collaborations among TKs

 
Learn about how Teaching Kitchens are being developed internationally, and consider opportunities for research between teaching kitchens on a global scale. 
  

Moderator:

  • David Eisenberg, MD, Director of Culinary Nutrition, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Discussants:

  • April Matsuno, Wellness Centre Manager, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, Canada
  • Akio Yonekura, CEO, Campus for H, Tokyo, Japan
  • Rani Polak, Director, Spaulding CHEF Coaching Program, Harvard Medical School; Director Sheba Lifestyle Medicine Center, Brookline, MA

Breakout Session 3: Integrative Medicine/Lifestyle Medicine

 
The teaching kitchen is an interdisciplinary educational intervention-this will be a discussion of how the latest teachings in: nutrition, exercise, mindfulness, and behavior change can be best woven into a teaching kitchen curriculum.
  

Moderator:

  • Sian Cotton, Professor and Director, UC Center for Integrative Health and Wellness, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH

Discussant:

  • Dexter Shurney, Chief Medical Officer, Zipongo, President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine, San Francisco, CA
  • Eddie Phillips, MD Chief, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Service, Boston VA Healthcare System, Boston, MA
  • Terri Stone, MedStar Institute for Innovation, Washington, DC

Breakout Session 4: Educating Health Professionals

 
How best to include teaching kitchens within current and future training programs for health professionals.
 

Moderator:

  • Adi Haramati, Professor of Integrative Physiology, Departments of Biochemistry, Molecular & Cellular Biology and Medicine (Nephrology), and Co-Director of the CAM Graduate Program, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC

Discussants:

  • Melinda Ring, Director, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at Northwestern Medicine, Chicago, IL
  • Yumi Jarris, Associate Dean for Population Health and Prevention, Professor of Family Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
     

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12

1:00 p.m. - 1:45 p.m. - Breakout Sessions

Breakout Session 5: Clinical Practice and Research

 
Following on the plenary presentation by Richard Rothstein, how can teaching kitchens be used to enhance clinical practice and research?
 

Moderator:

  • Jennifer Massa, Research Scientist, Department of Nutrition , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Discussants:

  • Richard Rothstein, Joseph M. Huber Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
  • Auden McClure, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Assistant Professor of Community and Family Medicine, Assistant Professor of The Dartmouth Institute, Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH
  • May Wang, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
  • Erica Lee, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

Breakout Session 6: Agriculture and Sustainable Food Systems

 
What role can teaching kitchens – in partnership with both terrestrial and urban agriculture - play in the current discussion of sustainable agriculture and food systems?
 

Moderator:

  • Will Rosenzweig, Chairperson, Teaching Kitchen Collaborative, Healdsburg, CA

Discussants:

  • Walter Willett, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  • Christopher Golden, Assistant Professor | Dept. of Nutrition; Dept. of Environmental Health; Dept. of Global Health and Population, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Breakout Session 7: Synergies of RDs, Chefs, Mind-body and Other TK Instructors

 
How can experts from dietetic, culinary education, and mindfulness communities be optimally integrated into and participate in teaching kitchens to create successful and impactful programs?
 

Moderator:

  • Kate Janisch, Culinary Nutrition Research Coordinator, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA

Discussants:

  • Sian Cotton, Professor and Director, UC Center for Integrative Health and Wellness, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
  • Wesley McWhorter, Assistant Professor, Health Promotion and Behavioral Sciences, Director of Culinary Nutrition, Nourish Program, UTHealth School of Public Health, Houston, TX
  • Sherene Chou, Sustainable Food & Nutrition Consultant
  • Benjamin Ramsdell, Culinary Coordinator & Chef Educator, MaineGeneral Health, Augusta, ME
  • Emma Steinberg, Pediatric Culinary Medicine Champion, Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, CA 

Breakout Session 8: Using a TK Platform to Deliver Health Equity

 
The COVID-19 pandemic shines a light on health disparities in communities of color and vulnerable populations. How are TKs providing opportunities for life skills empowerment and serving as platforms to deliver health equity?
 

Moderator:

  • Terri Stone, MedStar Institute for Innovation, Washington, DC

Discussant:

  • Brian Frank, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine, School of Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR
  • Rob Graham, FRESH Medicine
  • Kofi D. Essel, Attending Physician, Children's Health Center at Anacostia - Goldberg Center for Community Pediatric Health, Director, Community/Urban Health Scholarly Concentration, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Children's National Hospital & GWUSMHS, Washington, DC