A Clinical and Culinary Guide to Healthy Hospital Food
Anna Herby, DSHc, RD, CDE
Dustin Harder
Learn how to develop and implement plant-based menus in the hospital setting.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
A Comparison of Two Variants of an Educational Nutrition Program: In Person vs. Remote
Ted Barnett, MD, FACLM, DipABLM
Learn about the results of two differently run programs focused on lifestyle medicine: one run in person and one run entirely remotely.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
A Healthful Diet for Children
Brenda Davis, RD
Learn the adequacy and safety of plant-exclusive diets for children at various stages of growth and how to avoid nutrition shortfalls.
60 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
A New Approach to Type 1 Diabetes
Brian Carlsen, MD
Robby Barbaro, MPH
Cyrus Khambatta, PhD
Learn about the role of insulin resistance in type 1 diabetes and how a low-fat, plant-based diet can promote insulin sensitivity.
90 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
A Unifying Theory of Lifestyle Medicine
Dean Ornish, MD
Learn how to use lifestyle medicine to prevent, treat, and reverse disease.
60 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
An Unexpected Role for Routine Vaccinations in Reducing the Risk for Developing Alzheimer’s Disease
Paul Schulz, MD
Learn how routine vaccinations may reduce the risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
30 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Building Nutrition into Practice
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC
Vanita Rahman, MD
Neil Cooper, MD, MHA, MSc, DipACLM
Allison Menezes, MD
Learn how to help patients and clients change their perception with empathy, patience, and teamwork.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Can Lifestyle Changes Reverse Mild Cognitive Impairment Due to Alzheimer’s Disease?
Dean Ornish, MD
Learn how nutrition interventions can be impactful in helping patients with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer’s disease.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Can Viruses Survive on Meat Products?
Emily Bailey, PhD
Review the findings of a recent study on the survival of viruses on meat products, examine the trends in survival of surrogate viruses, and relate that to public health outcomes.
30 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Dairy and Breast Cancer
Huaidong Du, PhD, MSc
Among the half million Chinese adults followed for about 11 years, findings indicated that higher dairy (mainly milk) consumption was associated with higher risk of developing certain types of cancer. However, dairy consumption was not associated with risks of some other types of cancers.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Diet and Vasomotor Symptoms Update and Endometriosis Case Studies
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC
Lianna Levine Reisner, MSOD
Rebecca Johnson
Learn about the role of a plant-based diet in reducing hot flashes and alleviating endometriosis symptoms.
45 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Diet Quality and Risk of COVID-19
Andrew Chan, MD, MPH
Learn about a large prospective study conducted with a novel mobile data collection tool and the beneficial effects of diet on COVID-19 risk, which were especially evident for individuals living in areas of high socioeconomic deprivation.
45 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Ethical Issues in Nutrition Research
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC
Learn about ethical issues in relation to use of animals in clinical nutrition research.
20 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Ethics in Education and Research
Janine McCarthy, MPH
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC
Understand the implications of using animals in human nutrition research and learn about recommendations for medical publishing.
45 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Finding More Consensus in Health Science Communication About Plant-Based Diets
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Learn how to address nutrition controversies and understand how to best share the science of plant-based nutrition.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Food Choices That Facilitate Weight Loss and Power Foods in Practice
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC
Dustin Harder
Learn how certain foods and dietary strategies affect weight and promote weight loss. Understand how dietary fiber affects calories and learn tips for using familiar ingredients to be successful with the Power Foods Diet.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Food Sovereignty as an Approach to Indigenous Health Equity
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH
Learn about common barriers to fruit and vegetable consumption in rural and reservation communities and about the food sovereignty movement and its relationship to health and nutrition.
60 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Government Update: Nutrition Education, Dietary Guidelines, and More
Andrew Binovi, MPP
Learn why and how to get more involved as health professionals in the policy process to be sure that science is winning over politics.
15 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Healthy Hospital Food Panel
Monica Aggarwal, MD, FACC
Anna Herby, DSHc, RD, CDE
Hana Kahleova, MD, PhD
Learn about implementation of plant-based hospital meals, compliance with the American Medical Association resolution for hospital food, and a plant-based employee wellness program at Sibley Memorial.
90 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Heart Disease and Lifestyle Medicine
Steven Lome, DO
Learn the relationship between lifestyle factors and cardiovascular disease and how the current healthcare model influences treatment options.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Hormone Therapy and Risk of Dementia – What the Evidence Tells Us So Far
Amani Meaidi, MD
Learn the latest about the association between hormone therapy use and dementia risk.
30 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
How Big Pharma Broke American Health Care and How We Can Repair It
John Abramson, MD, MSc
Learn about what is needed to restore Americans’ health and health care to the level of other wealthy nations.
60 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
How Can Female Hormone Health Be Improved by Lifestyle Change and a Plant-Based Diet?
Gemma Newman, MBBCH, DRCOG, DFSRH, MRCGP
Learn the role that hormones play in our body and the various ways in which their function can be compromised through environmental and lifestyle factors.
60 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
How Not to Age
Michael Greger, MD, FACLM
Learn the latest science on factors that affect aging.
60 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Improving Nutrition Policy
Andrew Binovi, MPP
This presentation provides an overview of the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) and examines the conflict between science and politics that prevents necessary improvements to ensure the DGA are providing healthy recommendations for all Americans.
20 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
International Conference on Nutrition in Medicine 2025
Peter Carroll, MD, MPH
Edward Giovannucci, MD, ScD
Kaixiong Ye, PhD
Dean Ornish, MD
Urvi Shah, MD, MS
Hana Kahleova, MD, PhD
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC
Christopher Gardner, PhD
Andrew Binovi, MPP
Kim Williams, MD, MACC
Gemma Newman, MBBCH, DRCOG, DFSRH, MRCGP
Jill Erickson
Joel Erickson
Angelina Dickinson
Rowan Chlebowski, MD, PhD
Kristi Funk MD, FACS
Vanita Rahman, MD
Anthony Scialli, MD
Ted Barnett, MD, FACLM, DipABLM
Ben Urick, PharmD, PhD
Jessica Krant, MD, MPH, FAAD, FACLM
Roxanne Becker, MBChB, DipIBLM
James F. Loomis, MD, MBA, DipABLM, FACLM
Michael Greger, MD, FACLM
Janine McCarthy, MPH
NOTE: This is a pre-purchase course. Presentations will be added in fall 2025. If you've purchased this course, you will receive an email when the presentations have been added.
20 hours
Expires: August 13, 2028
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Key Concepts in Gut Health: IBS, SIBO, BAM, and Beyond
Alan Desmond, MB, BCh, BAO, BMedSc, MRCPI, FRCP
Learn how to tackle difficult questions from patients with digestive health concerns through practical evidence-based approaches.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Lifestyle Intervention With Plant-Based Diet on Rheumatoid Arthritis and Osteoarthritis: The “Plants for Joints" Trial
Dirkjan van Schaardenburg, MD, PhD
Learn about the effectiveness of intensive lifestyle changes for rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as compared with usual patient care.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Livestock, Infections, and Antibiotic Resistance
Lance Price, PhD, MSc
Learn the relationship between agricultural practices and foodborne illness and how this affects public health.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Marketing Drugs to Physicians
Adriane Fugh-Berman, MD
This session will discuss covert tactics used in pharmaceutical marketing, including drug rep visits, sampling, data mining, CME, and the use of physician influencers. Disease-mongering, or the creation of diseases by industry, will also be discussed. Recommendations for combating industry influence on patient care will be made.
60 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Meat, the Microbiome, and Gut Health
Alan Desmond, MB, BCh, BAO, BMedSc, MRCPI, FRCP
Learn how meat consumption affects the gut microbiome and the link between meat consumption and common digestive disorders.
60 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Medication Deprescribing for Patients With Type 2 Diabetes
James F. Loomis, MD, MBA, DipABLM, FACLM
Learn the root cause of type 2 diabetes and deprescription protocols for patients with type 2 diabetes.
45 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
New Findings on Food and Breast Cancer Prevention
Yangbo Sun, PhD, MBBS
Learn about the latest findings from the Women’s Health Initiative, a large, prospective cohort of postmenopausal women, on the associations of dietary factors (e.g., overall diet quality) with survival in postmenopausal women with breast cancer. The findings discuss the association between diet quality and risk of death after breast cancer diagnosis.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
New Findings on Statins
Virend Somers, MD, PhD
This overview will address recent advances in understanding statin therapy, including potential modulating effects of leptin. Benefits such as those in HIV positive patients and those with ILD will be examined as well as disparities in statin prescriptions.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Nutrition and Alzheimer’s Disease Discussion
Dean Ornish, MD
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC
Learn why nutrition interventions can be impactful in patients at risk for or suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
60 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Nutrition and Bone Health
Vanita Rahman, MD
Learn the role of nutrition and exercise in bone health and fracture prevention while weighing the benefits and risks of medications.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Nutrition and Cardiovascular Mortality
Kim Williams, MD, MACC
Understand the ways in which poor nutrition promotes and accentuates health inequities and learn about the benefits of plant-based diets to reduce cardiovascular risk factors and kidney disease.
60 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Nutrition and Fatty Liver Disease
Hana Kahleova, MD, PhD
Learn about the role of nutrition in the development of fatty liver disease and the scientific evidence for the use of nutrition in the prevention and treatment of this condition.
60 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Nutrition and Parkinson’s Disease
John Duda, MD
Learn how nutritional modifications can impact care for people with Parkinson’s Disease.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Nutrition as Medicine: Moving Beyond Wellness and Prevention
Thomas Campbell, MD
Learn about recent research findings related to insulin-treated type 2 diabetes and the effects of dietary interventions in women with metastatic breast cancer.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Nutrition Basics for Dietitians
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC
Anna Herby, DSHc, RD, CDE
Learn best practices for nutrition counseling and understand the role of dietary fat in insulin resistance.
60 minutes
Expires: November 15, 2026
Nutrition for Breast Cancer Risk Reduction and Survival
Kristi Funk MD, FACS
Learn about the surprising ways in which food influences breast cancer development, understand emerging research that supports a plant-forward eating pattern, and identify simple preventive strategies to incorporate into your everyday practice.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Nutrition for Type 1 Diabetes
Hana Kahleova, MD, PhD
Learn the role that diet plays in improving insulin function in patients with type 1 diabetes.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Nutrition for Type 2 Diabetes
Gemma Newman, MBBCH, DRCOG, DFSRH, MRCGP
Learn about the pathogenesis of the three types of diabetes, main dietary approaches to diabetes management and reversal, and the guidelines and research available to help patients reverse their diabetes.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Nutrition in Public Policy
Brenda Davis, RD
Jennifer Paul-Quinn, MPH, RDN
Andrew Binovi, MPP
Learn about the Canadian and United States Dietary Guidelines and how to have a seat at the table when it comes to public policy.
90 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Nutrition, Ethnicity, and Cardiovascular Mortality
Kim A. Williams, Sr, MD, MACC, FAHA, MASNC, FESC
Understand the ways in which poor nutrition promotes and accentuates health inequities and ethnic disparities and learn about the benefits of plant-based diets to reduce cardiovascular risk factors.
60 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
NYC Health + Hospital Program
Mercedes Redwood, MS
Samantha Morgenstern, MS, RD, CDN
Learn about the journey NYC Health + Hospitals has taken in developing and implementing the Healthy Eating Plant Based Initiative in all 11 of their acute care hospitals.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Plant-Based Diets and Cognitive Health
Lisa Barnes, PhD
This presentation will describe a population-based cohort study of older Black and White Americans who have been followed since 1993, to understand the role that diet has on brain health.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Plant-Based Diets and COVID-19
Sara Seidelmann, MD, PhD
Learn how a population-based case control study aimed to assess the relationship between self-reported dietary patterns and risk for COVID-19 among at-risk health care workers in six countries.
45 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Plant-Based Diets and Weight Loss
Jennifer Paul-Quinn, MPH, RDN
This presentation will review the evidence for the effectiveness of a plant-based diet for weight loss and discuss the racial disparities in obesity and obesity complications.
30 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Processed Foods and Plant-Based Diets
Hana Kahleova, MD, PhD
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC
Learn about the impact of processed and ultra-processed foods of both animal and plant-based origin in the context of plant-based nutrition.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Recipe for Heart Health: Cardiometabolic Effects of Extra Virgin Olive Oil Within a Whole-Food Plant-Based Vegan Diet
Monica Aggarwal, MD, FACC
Learn about the results of a study comparing the effects of a whole-food plant-based vegan diet with and without extra virgin olive oil on cardiometabolic risk factors.
30 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Salt and Cardiovascular Health
Lu Qi, PhD
Learn about the controversial research on the role of dietary sodium intake and human heath, limitations of traditional markers for studying sodium intake, and the association between adding salt to foods and risk of cardiovascular diseases and premature death.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Soy Food Consumption and Breast Health
Xiao Ou Shu, MD, MPH, PhD
This course will review epidemiological evidence on soy food consumption and breast cancer risk, recurrence, mortality, and other outcomes and describe potential mechanisms underlying the relationship.
45 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
The Anti-Inflammatory Gut
Robynne Chutkan, MD, FASGE
Learn about the relationship between the gut microbiome and the immune system and how changes in the composition of gut bacteria impact inflammation.
45 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
The Cardiovascular Effects of a Plant-Based Diet
Allen Solomon, MD
Learn how a plant-based diet can impact cardiovascular health and how it is different from other cardiac diets.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
The Impact of Physical Activity on Neurocognitive Function in Late Adulthood
Kirk Erickson, PhD
Learn how regular exercise is a modifiable lifestyle factor for learning, memory, and brain health in late adulthood.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
The New View of Protein
David L. Katz, MD, MPH
Mingyang Song, MBBS, ScD
Brenda Davis, RD
Christopher Gardner, PhD
This panel presentation explores the myths and realities of protein needs, sources, quality, health effects, and environmental impacts.
Expires: August 09, 2026
The Present Illness: American Health Care and Its Afflictions
Martin Shapiro, MD, PhD, MPH
Learn how the commodification of health care affects the behavior of all groups of actors in the system, including physicians, medical schools, health systems, insurers, manufacturers, scientists, government, and patients and their families. This presentation outlines specific, substantial interventions with all of these groups have the potential to mitigate deterrents to change.
60 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
The Role of Vitamin D in Cognitive Decline and Dementia
Kyla Shea, PhD
Learn about the association between vitamin D and lower risk of cognitive decline and dementia.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
The Tough Cases: Handling Clinical Challenges
James F. Loomis, MD, MBA, DipABLM, FACLM
Thomas Campbell, MD
Allen Solomon, MD
Hana Kahleova, MD, PhD
Alan Desmond, MB, BCh, BAO, BMedSc, MRCPI, FRCP
Learn how to help patients with diverse clinical challenges including weight loss plateau, as well as helping patients who may struggle with reducing blood pressure and/or blood glucose despite dietary changes.
75 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
The Year of Research in Review
Andrew M. Freeman, MD, FACC
Learn about the latest statistics regarding cardiovascular disease, the latest evidence published in the nutrition space, and how plant-based diets can markedly improve health outcomes.
45 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Thyroid Health
Vanita Rahman, MD
Learn how to use nutrition intervention in the management of thyroid conditions and how to provide nutrition education in a busy clinical practice.
45 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Top 18 Breast Superfoods
Kristi Funk MD, FACS
Learn how specific plant foods decrease carcinogenic influences within a breast cell’s microenvironment and explore controversies surrounding hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
Understanding Soy, Isoflavones, and Equol
Kenneth Setchell, PhD
Learn the beneficial components of soy and how these affect cardiovascular risk factors.
45 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Universal Meals: Everyone Has a Seat at the Table
Lilian Correa, RDN, MPH, DipACLM
David Kamen, PCIII, MBA
Dustin Harder
This presentation will review the reasons plant-based meals void of the top nine allergens are a timely and compassionate option.
60 minutes
Expires: August 17, 2025
Universal Meals: Implementing Allergen-Friendly Meals
Dustin Harder
A practical approach to applying allergen-friendly recipes at any institution to create a seat for everyone at the table.
20 minutes
Expires: August 09, 2026
Weight Loss Drugs, Surgery, and Nutrition
Neal Barnard, MD, FACC
Jamie Kane, MD
Garth Davis, MD
James F. Loomis, MD, MBA, DipABLM, FACLM
Hana Kahleova, MD, PhD
Steven Lome, DO
Chuck Carroll
Learn the pros and cons of medical, surgical, and nutritional approaches to weight management.
2 hours
Expires: August 09, 2026
Weight Management: Nutrition vs. Drugs vs. Surgery
Vanita Rahman, MD
Learn the pros and cons of various nutritional, pharmacological, and surgical interventions in weight management, as well as a framework to discuss weight management options with patients.
45 minutes
Expires: August 15, 2027
