Pediatric Culinary Medicine

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Caren Vance, MD, CCMS Related seminars and products

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Caren Vance, MD, CCMS, has been a practicing pediatrician at Castro Valley Pediatrics since 2000. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from UCLA, a Doctor of Medicine from UC Davis School of Medicine, and completed her Pediatric Residency at Children's Hospital Oakland. She is a Fellow of the AAP, a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, and a Certified Culinary Medicine Specialist. Dr. Vance is the co-founder of Live Your Medicine, LLC (LYM), a company that partners with community-based organizations with pediatricians and health coaches to mitigate the impacts of toxic stress in under-resourced communities. LYM's intensive hands-on play-based program for whole families teaches families how to incorporate life skills in their daily routines, such as nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and emotional regulation. These life skills are stress reducers that can help children and families thrive. Dr. Vance and Dr. Rhew were awarded the AAP CATCH Grant and Cooking Matters/Share Our Strength Grant to create and deliver an innovative, intensive pediatric wellness program to mitigate the effects of toxic stress.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Caren Vance Gee has employment relationships with Castro Valley Pediatrics, Lifeology Labs and Live Your Medicine, LLC. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Caren Vance Gee is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and Teaching Kitchen Collaborative.

Miriam Rhew, MD, MPH, CILC Related seminars and products

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Miriam Rhew, MD, MPH, CILC, has been a practicing pediatrician in Northern California since 2001.  She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Human Biology   from Stanford University, a Doctor Medicine from Oregon Health & Science University, and a Master of Public Health from University of California Berkeley.  She completed her Pediatric Residency at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford and her Preventive Medicine and Public Health Residency at University of California San Francisco.  She is a Fellow of the AAP, a member of the sections on obesity and integrative medicine.   During the pandemic, she became a certified integrative life coach (CILC) and is a member of the Life Coach School and the International Association of Counselors and Therapists.  In addition, she is certified to coach using the We Are Resilient approach with Dovetail Learning and the Circle of Security Parenting approach through Circle of Security International.  Dr. Rhew is the co-founder of Live Your Medicine, LLC (LYM), a company that partners community-based organizations with pediatricians and health coaches to mitigate the impacts of toxic stress in under-resourced communities. LYM's intensive hands-on play-based program to teach families how to incorporate life skills in their daily routines, such as nutrition, movement, mindfulness, and emotional regulation. These life skills are stress reducers that help children and families thrive. Dr. Vance and Dr. Rhew were awarded the AAP CATCH Grant and Cooking Matters/Share Our Strength Grant to create and deliver an innovative, intensive pediatric wellness program to mitigate the effects of toxic stress.

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Miriam Rhew is the co-founder and CEO of Live your Medicine, the owner of Mosaic Life Coaching, LLC. and has an employment relationship with USCF. She receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Miriam Rhew is a fellow with the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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Objectives

1. Define culinary medicine and explain how it is trauma informed care.
2. Discuss how culinary medicine is useful to prevent, treat, and reverse stress-associated chronic health conditions.
3. Collaborate with families to have healthier relationships with food and eating. 

Outline

• Growing field
• Takes nutritional science and evidence-based lifestyle medicine and translates it to practical skills 
• Empowers patients and clinicians to collaborate for wellness and disease prevention
• Trauma informed strength-based approach
• Innovative and engaging way to teach patients and their families evidence- based stress buster strategies in the clinical setting that can easily be implemented in their own daily life routines

• Strongly associated, in a dose-response fashion, with many of the most common, serious, and costly health conditions in the United States including diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and substance use
• Detectable as early as infancy and can emerge even in late adolescence…may manifest as disordered eating, sleep disruption, developmental delay, learning difficulties, complaints of somatic pain, increased engagement in high-risk health behaviors, depression, and anxiety
• Stress during the COVID pandemic Parental stress during the pandemic likely had an effect on child feeding during the pandemic related to changes in family life and routines

• Assesses the Stages of Change 
• Motivational interviewing and set up supportive follow up schedules 
• Patients’ next steps are based on the most important chief complaints/priorities of the patient.

• Clinicians shift away from “diet and exercise” culture, knowing how we talk about our bodies and food matters.
• Using the 24- hour recall history, we help families add nutrition to their existing flavor preferences.
• Teach families strategies of inviting children to grow in curiosity.
• Invite children into the kitchen to cook alongside parents
• Cultivate the habit of the family meal 

Target Audience

• Nurses
• Nurse Practitioners
• Physician Assistants
• Physical Therapist
• Speech-Language Pathologists
• Occupational Therapists