Lifestyle Medicine Consultant at Love.life Telehealth; Medical Director at Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute
Love.life Telehealth, Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute
Canandaigua, New York, United States
Dr. Kerry Graff obtained her medical degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in 1994 and completed her family medicine residency at UPMC Shadyside in 1997. Following residency, she moved to Canandaigua, NY and practiced family medicine in the finger lakes area for 26 years. After experiencing a personal health transformation by adopting a whole food, plant-based diet in 2014, she completed the T. Colin Campbell Plant Based Nutrition Certification through eCornell and has been talking with patients about using plant-based diets to reverse disease ever since. She joined the American College of Lifestyle Medicine in 2014 and became one of the first 204 board certified lifestyle medicine physicians in the world in 2017, the first year board certification became available. Dr. Graff joined Rochester Regional Health in 2018. In addition to providing comprehensive primary care services for a small panel of patients, she served as Lead Lifestyle Medicine Physician, establishing a lifestyle medicine consultation service and working to integrate lifestyle medicine throughout the health system through provider education, identifying and fostering other providers interested in obtaining lifestyle medicine board certification, and developing lifestyle medicine programs. She left Rochester Regional Health in September of 2023 and now works as a consultant, seeing patients for lifestyle medicine consultations through Love.life Telehealth and serving as Medical Director at the Rochester Lifestyle Medicine Institute. Dr. Graff serves in a volunteer capacity as the chief medical officer of 4Leaf Global and is the co-author of the 4Leaf Guide to Vibrant Health--Using the Power of Food to Heal Ourselves and Our Planet. All proceeds from the book are donated to various efforts that increase plant-based eating for both human and planetary health.
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Lifestyle Medicine Grand Rounds: "Stump the Stars" ACLM 20th Anniversary Edition
Monday, October 28, 2024
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM ET