Conference Schedule

  • 7:00-7:30AM — Movement as Medicine (optional)
  • 7:30-8:30AM — Breakfast (optional)
  • 8:15-8:40AM — Resource Fair
  • 8:40AM — Welcome & Opening Remarks
  • 8:50AM — Optimizing Plant-Based Nutrition: Clinical Guidelines and Practical Strategies – Vesanto Melina, MS, RD
  • 10:00AM — The Pleasure Trap – Douglas Lisle, PhD
  • 11:10AM — Break
  • 11:20AM — Overcoming Metabolic Derangement Syndromes that Masquerade as Discreet Diseases: Using Whole-Food, Plant-Based Diets to Arrest & Reverse Most Chronic Diseases – Milton Mills, MD
  • 12:30-1:30PM — Lunch
  • 1:30PM — Culinary Medicine: Support for Dietary Transformation – María José Hummel, PhD, MPH & Chef Beth Love, MDiv
  • 2:35PM — Optimizing Your Patient’s Health for Pregnancy, Baby, and Future Wellness – Debra Shapiro, MD
  • 3:45PM — Break
  • 4:00PM — Improving Patient Outcomes Through Community Resources – María José Hummel, PhD, MPH & Chef Beth Love, MDiv
  • 4:20PM — Debunking Myths About Plant-Based Nutrition and Disease Prevention – Panel Discussion with: Milton Mills, MD, Vesanto Melina, MS, RD, Martha Sandoval, MD, and Steven Leib, MD
  • 5:20PM — Closing Remarks
  • 5:25-5:35PM — Resource Fair