Medical Director of Culinary Medicine; Co-Chair Climate and Planetary Health; Culinary Medicine Physician
Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group
San Diego, California, United States
Dr. Angie Neison is a Board-certified Family and Culinary Medicine Physician who has always been interested in health from a preventive medicine perspective. She believes food is medicine, and empowers your evidenced-based wellness journey starting with your next meal.
Over the last 4 years, Dr. Neison has become active at Sharp to promote the culture of wellness amongst her colleagues, one where the focus is on human and planetary health with the “see one, do one, teach one” model of learning. She advocated, and implemented a sustainable plant-forward menu starting at Sharp Rees-Stealy Physician meetings, that was adopted at all four Sharp Healthcare Hospitals June 2020. She’s currently working with the Sharp Healthcare Hospital Food, and Nutrition team to improve culinary literacy as a way to advocate for health equity related to social determinants of health.
She has taught many community classes through the YMCA, California Schools VEBA and even local preschools with students as young as 2 years of age. She teaches continuing medical education to residents, colleagues and other healthcare physicians so that preventative medicine opportunities in healthcare through food and planetary health are amplified.
Dr. Neison is on San Diego’s Public Health Advisory Council for Climate Action where she is connecting the dots between climate health, human health and health equity to address local policy changes. She is founder and Co-Chair of the Climate and Planetary Health committee in her organization and is continually helping connect the dots between public health and solutions for the climate crisis.
She maintains an active presence on her social media page @Flavors4wellnessMD where she inspires the interconnectivity between food, wellness, community, human and planetary health. She is the first and only Doctora in her family but hopes to inspire more Latinx physicians into medicine.
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In-Person Workshop: Culinary Medicine—Getting Started
Sunday, October 27, 2024
9:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET