A board-certified specialist in internal medicine and a professionally trained chef, Dr. La Puma hosts “What’s Cooking with ChefMD?” weekly on the national series “Health Corner” on Lifetime TV. The best-selling author of “RealAge Diet”, his latest book is “ChefMD’s Big Book of Culinary Medicine”. He is also the medical director at The Santa Barbara Institute for Medical Nutrition & Healthy Weight. <\/p>\n
John La Puma is the \u201cfood as medicine doc.\u201d A board-certified specialist in internal medicine, a professionally trained chef and New York Times best-selling author, Dr. La Puma hosts \u201cWhat\u2019s Cooking With ChefMD\u00ae\u201d every Sunday morning on the national TV series \u201cHealth Corner\u201d on the cable TV network Lifetime, with 88 million subscribers.<\/p>\n
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of California (Creative Studies) and a graduate of the Baylor College of Medicine, he performed his residency in internal medicine at the West LA VA Medical Center and UCLA, and completed the first postgraduate fellowship in internal medicine and clinical medical ethics in the U.S., at the University of Chicago. He was appointed to the associate faculty at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine for six years and has written more than 50 peer reviewed scientific papers, 200 essays and letters, and three medical books.<\/p>\n
Dr. La Puma is also a graduate of the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago, a Le Cordon Bleu School, and taught the first Nutrition and Cooking Course for Medical Students in the U.S., at SUNY. He founded CHEF Clinic\u00ae to study the cooking, eating and fitness habits of overweight adults, receiving an American Medical Association grant for the research. He served as a Professor of Nutrition at Kendall School of Culinary Arts and cooked for nearly 4 years once weekly at Chef Rick Bayless\u2019 Topolobampo in Chicago. Dr. La Puma contributed recipes to the #1 best-seller You, the Owner\u2019s Manual and has consulted with companies such as CIGNA, Caremark and Kr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"