First Name
John

Last Name
La Puma

Degrees
MD

Short Bio

Dr. La Puma is the "food as medicine" doc.  A popular inspirational keynote speaker,
he has given over 400 lectures to professional groups and 300 lectures
as a keynote speaker.  He has also been a consultant and spokesperson
for companies such as CIGNA, Caremark and Kraft. 

He currently sees patients in Santa Barbara, California for weight loss programs and nutrition advice.  A
board-certified specialist in internal medicine and professionally
trained chef, he was the first physician in the country to teach
cooking and nutrition in a U.S. medical school, at SUNY-Syracuse, with Dr. Michael Roizen, with whom he wrote RealAge Diet and Cooking the RealAge Way.

He also
hosts the weekly TV segment "What's Cooking With ChefMD?" Sundays on
cable network Lifetime Television in the national TV series "Health
Corner" for 5 seasons (2010).

Dr. La Puma is a New York Times best-selling author, most recently with ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine (Crown, 2008).  Follow him on Twitter.