BlumKitchen Nutrition Guide & Cookbook
A true pioneer in Functional Medicine, Dr. Susan Blum, an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has been treating, healing and preventing chronic diseases for nearly two decades. Her passion and dedication for identifying and addressing the root causes of chronic illness through the groundbreaking whole body approach known as Functional Medicine, is helping to transform our healthcare system. As the Founder and Director of Blum Center for Health in Rye Brook, New York, Dr. Blum's crusade for personalized medicine is paramount for treatment and prevention. A Preventive Medicine and Chronic Disease Specialist, Dr. Blum is a member of the Medical Advisory Boards for both The Dr. Oz Show and Martha Stewart's Whole Living. She has appeared on Fox 5 News, ABC Eyewitness News, and is regularly quoted in Real Simple, Harper's Bazaar, and Redbook. Dr. Blum's mission at Blum Center for Health is to facilitate a personalized healing experience by creating a partnership with her patients while providing cuttingedge Functional Medicine and teaching self-care skills for changing health habits. She empowers her patients to stop covering up symptoms in order to actually treat the underlying causes of illness, thereby combating and most often curing the chronic-disease epidemic. Dr. Blum completed her Internal Medicine training at St-Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, her residency in Preventive Medicine at The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, and is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine. She received her Masters in Public Health at Columbia University, and her training in Functional Medicine from The Institute for Functional Medicine, in Gig Harbor, Washington. Dr. Blum is on staff at Greenwich Hospital as an Integrative Medicine Specialist in the Medicine Department and is also a member of the Senior Teaching Faculty at the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. and teaches throughout the world in their training programs. Dr. Blum approaches medicine and her life from a whole body perspective, incorporating all facets of wellness into every breath. She loves experimenting in her kitchen with new recipes using ingredients from her vegetable and herb garden.