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March is National Nutrition Month, created to teach people how to make smart food choices and develop healthy habits. Fourth-year students at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix take a four-week elective class that teaches them how to make healthy meals from scratch with the intention of passing on that knowledge to their future patients. Shad Marvasti, MD, MPH, associate professor of Family, Community and Preventive Medicine, director of Public Health, Prevention and Health Promotion at the college and founding director of Culinary Medicine, is interviewed.
About the College
Founded in 2007, the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix inspires and trains exemplary physicians, scientists and leaders to optimize health and health care in Arizona and beyond. By cultivating collaborative research locally and globally, the college accelerates discovery in a number of critical areas — including cancer, stroke, traumatic brain injury and cardiovascular disease. Championed as a student-centric campus, the college has graduated more than 800 physicians, all of whom received exceptional training from nine clinical partners and more than 2,700 diverse faculty members. As the anchor to the Phoenix Bioscience Core, which is projected to have an economic impact of $3.1 billion by 2025, the college prides itself on engaging with the community, fostering education, inclusion, access and advocacy.