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About Dr. La Puma |
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Dr. La Puma is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine, a professionally trained chef, and an expert in medical ethics, nutrition and weight management. He taught the first Nutrition and Cooking Course for Medical Students in the U.S., at SUNY, with Dr. Michael Roizen of the Cleveland Clinic, in 2003. Dr. La Puma has pioneered and researched the idea of food-as-medicine that's tasty, including delicious eating plans for weight loss, cholesterol-lowering, anti-aging (with RealAge(R)) and childhood obesity. He is founder of Chef Clinic (R), co-founder of ChefMD(R), hosts the weekly TV segment "What's Cooking With ChefMD?" and co-hosts the national series "Health Corner", airing on Lifetime. Lifetime TV reaches over 90m households and Dr. La Puma is seen by at least 250,000 viewers, 25-54, each week. |
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Dr. La Puma is a New York Times best-selling author: his ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine: A Food Lover's Roadmap to Losing Weight, Preventing Disease and Getting Really Healthy became a Times best-seller list shortly after its 2008 release. His first general audience book, with Michael Roizen MD, was also a Times best-seller: The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat; his first cookbook, also with Dr. Roizen, became an Amazon #1 Cookbook: Cooking the RealAge Way: Turn Back Your Biological Clock. Dr. La Puma also developed recipes for Dr. Oz and Roizen's Times #1 best-seller You the Owner's Manual, and Oprah! first featured one of his recipes ("Salmon and Three Peppers) on September 20, 1999.
Dr. La Puma is a popular speaker, and has given over 400 lectures to professional groups and 300 lectures to educationally-interested audiences as a keynote speaker. He has also been a consultant and spokesperson for companies such as CIGNA, Caremark and Kraft, and is Scientific Advisor to RealAge(R). He has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The 700 Club, Dr. Oz XM, Oprah.com, Martha Stewart radio, and on NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX, PBS and CNN outlets. The New England Journal of Medicine, the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have published his work. USA Today, Prevention, Reader's Digest, Parade and Newsweek and hundreds of others have featured his work as well. He blogs on JillianMichaels.com and writes on "Culinary Medicine" for the Tribune Media Syndicate.
Formerly a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Professor of Nutrition at Kendall College's School of Culinary Arts, and cook at James Beard-award winning Chef Rick Bayless' Topolobampo in Chicago, Dr. La Puma also graduated from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago (now a Cordon Bleu school) in Professional Cooking.
He performed his residency in internal medicine at West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center and UCLA, and completed the first postgraduate fellowship in general internal medicine and clinical medical ethics in the U.S., at the University of Chicago. Dr. La Puma's clinical trial designs and academic work has resulted in authorship or co-authorship of over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 150 other contributions to the medical literature and 3 medical books, including a CME book. Founding Editor of Alternative Medicine Alert, the leading evidence-based newsletter for clinicians on dietary supplements and integrative approaches, Dr. La Puma is also a recognized expert in CME, informed consent, patient safety and wellness practices, and has testified as an expert in legal cases.
Repeatedly named "One of America's Top Physicians" by Consumers' Research Council, and cited as a "Secret Weapon" by The Wall Street Journal, Dr. La Puma has been honored with the National Association of Medical Communicators "Award of Excellence". He is based in Santa Barbara, California. Contact Dr. La Puma. | 
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