name: John La Puma
genres: Spirituality, Nonfiction, Cookbooks
avg_rating: 3.55
ratings_count: 362
about: Dr. La Puma is a practicing physician, a professionally trained chef, and a New York Times best-selling author twice. Founder of Chef Clinic and co-founder of ChefMD, his mission is to help you get measurably healthier with what you eat and how you live, including the use of nature as medicine. Dr. La Puma taught the first Nutrition and Cooking course for medical students in the US, at SUNY-Upstate with Dr. Michael Roizen of the Cleveland Clinic, and delivered the first lectures at Harvard and at TEDMED on Culinary Medicine. He hosts the national PBS series “Dr John La Puma’s ChefMD Shorts” and co-hosted 100+ episodes of the national cable network Lifetime TV’s “Health Corner”, most recently with Joan Lunden and Leeza Gibbons, over nearly 5 Dr. La Puma is a practicing physician, a professionally trained chef, and a New York Times best-selling author twice. Founder of Chef Clinic and co-founder of ChefMD, his mission is to help you get measurably healthier with what you eat and how you live, including the use of nature as medicine. Dr. La Puma taught the first Nutrition and Cooking course for medical students in the US, at SUNY-Upstate with Dr. Michael Roizen of the Cleveland Clinic, and delivered the first lectures at Harvard and at TEDMED on Culinary Medicine. He hosts the national PBS series “Dr John La Puma’s ChefMD Shorts” and co-hosted 100+ episodes of the national cable network Lifetime TV’s “Health Corner”, most recently with Joan Lunden and Leeza Gibbons, over nearly 5 years. A cook at James Beard-award winning Chef Rick Bayless’ Topolobampo in Chicago for nearly 4 years, Dr. La Puma sees patients, keeps bees and leads tours of his certified organic urban farm in Santa Barbara by appointment. Visit him at http://drjohnlapuma.com ...more