VegMed Web 2021

Dr. Michael Greger, M.D.

Director of Public Health and Animal Agriculture at the Humane Society. Founder of Nutritionfacts.org, USA

A founding member and Fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, Michael Greger, MD FACLM, is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized speaker on nutrition, food safety, and public health issues. He has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, testified before Congress, and was invited as an expert witness in the defense of Oprah Winfrey in the infamous “meat defamation” trial.

In 2017, Dr. Greger was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award. He is a graduate of Cornell University School of Agriculture and Tufts University School of Medicine. His latest book How Not to Die became an instant New York Times Best Seller. He has videos on more than 2,000 health topics freely available at NutritionFacts.org, with new videos and articles uploaded every day. All proceeds he receives from his books, DVDs, and speaking engagements is all donated to charity.

Jennifer Trilk, M.D.

Dr. Jennifer L. Trilk, PhD, FACSM, FAGLN

Jennifer L. Trilk, PhD, FACSM, FAGLN is an Associate Professor at University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville and Director of the Lifestyle Medicine Core Curriculum and Lifestyle Medicine Distinction Track (e.g. medical student training in nutrition, physical activity/exercise, behavior change, student/patient self-care, and resiliency to prevent and treat the nation’s top chronic diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease and various forms of cancer). She also founded and directs Exercise is Medicine Greenville®, a comprehensive 12-week medically-based exercise and lifestyle program for adults with chronic health conditions, for which she received the 2019 Exercise is Medicine Global Leadership Award from the American College of Sports Medicine.

Dr. Trilk also co-founded and co-directs the Lifestyle Medicine Education Collaborative (LMEd), which provides leadership, guidance and resources in Lifestyle Medicine to medical schools across the globe. In 2017 she was showcased internationally as an invited adjunct professor at the Università degli Studi del Piemonte Orientale (UPO) medical school in Novara, Italy, and at American College of Preventive Medicine’s Lifestyle Medicine congressional briefing on Capitol Hill. In 2013, she spoke by invitation at the Bipartisan Policy Center: “Teaching Nutrition and Physical Activity in Medical School: Training Doctors for Prevention-Oriented Care.”

Dr. Trilk has received national recognition by the Association of American Medical Colleges (Press Release 2017; Press Release 2018), U.S. News and World Report, Chicago Tribune, and CNN, and twice has received the U.S. President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition Community Leadership Award (years 2019 and 2014).

Dr. Trilk completed her post-doctoral fellowship at the University of South Carolina Arnold School of Public Health and earned her PhD in exercise physiology from the University of Georgia. She is a Fellow of the third class of the Aspen Global Leadership Network’s Health Innovators Fellowship Program and also is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine.

Prof. Dr. Walter Willett

Dr. Walter Willett is Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He served as Chair of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for 25 years. Dr. Willett has published over 2,000 articles, primarily on lifestyle risk factors for heart disease and cancer, and has written the textbook, Nutritional Epidemiology.

Team Sherzai

Dean Sherzai, MD, PhD and Ayesha Sherzai, MD

A unique husband and wife team on the cutting edge of brain science, Dr. Dean and Dr. Ayesha Sherzai are dedicated to educating people on the simple steps to long-term health and wellness through their work as Directors of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center, with patients, as well as through online writing, videos, and books.

There is a tsunami of diseases of the brain such as Alzheimer’s, stroke and Parkinson’s disease permeating our culture. In our own communities and families, we all have known at least one person suffering from these illnesses and in many cases seen the fallout first-hand. There is no treatment for these diseases, and the emotional, financial and social burden is immense. These diseases are thieves, stealing time, money and ravaging the minds of our loved ones. The Sherzais see scientists and physicians working furiously to find a cure or these diseases, and in this frantic race against time somehow, the big picture is usually lost among the molecules and chemicals related to the diseases.

As Co-Directors of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center, the Sherzais, through research and their extensive collective medical backgrounds, work to demystify the steps to achieving long-term brain health and the prevention of devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and dementia.

Dean Sherzai, MD, PhD, is co-director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda University. Dean trained in Neurology at Georgetown University School of Medicine, and completed fellowships in neurodegenerative diseases and dementia at the National Institutes of Health and UC San Diego. He also holds a PhD in Healthcare Leadership with a focus on community health from Andrews University.

Ayesha Sherzai, MD is a neurologist and co-director of the Alzheimer’s Prevention Program at Loma Linda University, where she leads the Lifestyle Program for the Prevention of Neurological Diseases. She completed a dual training in Preventative Medicine and Neurology at Loma Linda University, and a fellowship in Vascular Neurology and Epidemiology at Columbia University. She is also a trained plant-based culinary artist.

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Dr. med. Martin Herrmann

The initiator and spokesman of KLUG (German Alliance for Climate Change and Health) has promoted professional change processes for many years. Originally a medical doctor and psychotherapist, Martin Herrmann soon switched to advising companies and NGOs, designed new methods for organizational development and now teaches at international business schools and universities. He is particularly fond of complexity research, philosophy, especially Hannah Arendt.

Prof. Dr. Martin Smollich

Institute of Nutrition Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Lübeck, Germany

Martin Smollich studied biology and pharmacy in Münster (Germany) and Cambridge (UK) and obtained a Ph.D. in pharmacology and toxicology. After four years of practice as clinical pharmacologist, he was appointed professor of pharmacology and pharmaconutrition in 2013. Since 2018, he is head of pharmaconutrition at the Institute of Nutritional Medicine, University Hospital of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Dr Smollich is editor of Ernaehrungsmedizin.blog.

Research topics: pharmaconutrition, functional food, nutraceuticals, food-drug interactions