Dr. La Puma is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine and a professionally trained chef. He has pioneered the idea of food-as-medicine that's tasty, including eating plans for weight loss, cholesterol-lowering, anti-aging and childhood obesity. He hosts the weekly TV segment "What's Cooking WithChefMD?" Sundayson cable network Lifetime Television in the national TV series "Health Corner." Lifetime reaches over 90 million households; "What's Cooking With ChefMD?" is seen by at least 250,000 viewers, 25-54 each week.
Dr. La Puma is a popular keynote speaker, and has given over 400 lectures to professional groups, including 300 lectures as a keynote speaker to health care organizations, culinary groups and trade associations. He has also been a consultant and spokesperson for companies such as CIGNA, Caremark and Kraft. In 2008, he appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, Oprah.com, The 700 Club, NPR, ESPN, XM, Sirius and on NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and CW outlets nationwide. The New England Journal of Medicine, the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have published his work. USA Today, Prevention, Reader's Digest, Parade,Newsweek and hundreds of others have featured his work as well. His work with RealAge has also been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, The Dr. Oz Files and hundreds of other TV and radio shows.
Dr. La Puma is a New York
Times best-selling author. His most recent book reached the New York Times
list within 6 months of its hardcover release in October 2008. In ChefMD's
Big Book of Culinary Medicine, Dr. La Puma describes the art and science of culinary medicine, blending the art of cooking with the science of medicine to offer restaurant
quality food that works like medicine, for 40 different conditions. Dr. La Puma developed recipes
for Dr. Oz and Roizen's New York Times best-seller You
the Owner's Manual. His first general audience book with Dr.
Roizen became a New York Times best-seller: The RealAge
Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat. His first cookbook, also
with Dr. Roizen, became an Amazon #1 Cookbook: Cooking the
RealAge Way: Turn Back Your Biological Clock.
Formerly a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Professor of Nutrition at Kendall College's School of Culinary Arts and cook at James Beard-award winning Chef Rick Bayless' Topolobampo in Chicago, Dr. La Puma graduated from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago (now a Cordon Bleu school) in Professional Cooking and taught the first Nutrition and Cooking Course for Medical Students in the U.S., at SUNY.
He performed his residency in internal medicine at West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center and UCLA, and completed the first postgraduate fellowship in general internal medicine and clinical medical ethics in the U.S., at the University of Chicago. Dr. La Puma is the author or co-author of over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 150 other contributions to the medical literature and 3 medical books, including a CME book. Founding Editor of Alternative Medicine Alert, the leading evidence-based newsletter for clinicians on dietary supplements, complementary and integrative approaches, Dr. La Puma is also a recognized expert in CME, informed consent and wellness practices and has testified as an expert in legal cases.
Repeatedly named "One of America's Top Physicians" by the Consumers' Research Council and called a "Secret Weapon" by The Wall Street Journal, Dr. La Puma was honored with the American Medical Association's NAMC 2007 "Award of Excellence". He is based in Santa Barbara, California. E-mail Dr. La Puma.
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