Continuing Medical Education Event
When: February 3, 2024
Where: 4Roots Farm Campus, Education Building
Address: 1101 N John Young Parkway, Orlando FL 32804
Time: 7 AM – 5:30 PM
Credit Hours: 9
This continuing medical education event is focused on FOOD AS MEDICINE. We will discuss seed nutrients, climate and soil health, and the connections of soil health to human health. We will examine social determinants of health considering the nutrient density of foods and their impact on patient health outcomes. There will be a culinary demonstration, so be prepared to help cook! You will learn simple meals to cook in your homes and patients’ homes. We will explore how to incorporate nutrition and lifestyle education into clinical practice. Can’t wait to see you all there!
Topics will include:
- Microbiota, Inflammation and Health
- Nutritional Security Social Determinants of Health
- A hands-on culinary demonstration
- Soil health and microbiome
- How to incorporate nutrition into clinical practice
- Farm Tour: from Seed to Health
Accreditation Statement: This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the University of Central Florida College of Medicine and 4 Roots Farm. The University of Central Florida College of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Designation Statement – University of Central Florida College of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 9.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)tm. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Event Speakers
Dr. Monica Aggarwal
Course Director
Dr. Aggarwal gives talks around the community, country and internationally. She was named a “Next Generation Innovator” by Cardiology Today. She is often featured in Veg News, Naked Magazine and forksoverknives.com. She conducts research on nutrition education in medical institutions and on how a plant-based diet impacts cardiovascular disease. She has published in major medical journals such as Journal of American College of Cardiology and American Journal of Medicine.
Board certified in cardiology and three specialties of cardiology: echocardiography, nuclear cardiology and advanced lipid management, she is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (ACC), where she is a member of the nutrition council working on nutrition policies for the nation. Dr. Aggarwal specializes in preventive management of heart disease with lifestyle techniques in conjunction with medications. She is the author of the book “Body on Fire: How Inflammation Triggers Chronic Illness and the Tools We Have to Fight It,” which outlines prescriptions to help guide people to better health and the recently released Body on Fire Cookbook which provides whole food, healthy recipes to help implement change. She has instituted a new plant-based menu at the University of Florida/Shands Hospital which is receiving national attention along with new discharge education that empowers patients to heal their bodies with their lifestyles. She was recently named Florida’s Cardiovascular Researcher of the year which provided her with a grant to conduct the important research needed on nutrition in 2019 and Exemplary Teacher of the Year in 2020.
She currently conducts research at University of Florida and sees patients in Orlando, Florida at AdventHealth and via telemedicine as part of Wholistic Health and details can be found on her website.
Kim Williams, MD
Speaker
Dr. Kim Allan Williams, Sr., is the Endowed Professor of Health Equity and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at University of Louisville (UofL). He originates from the South Side of Chicago, and transitioned from the inner-city Chicago Public Schools to the College of the University of Chicago (UC), where he majored in biology (AB’75). He earned four Maroon varsity tennis letters, playing number one singles for his last three years, and subsequently taught and played tennis professionally. He trained at UC’s Pritzker School of Medicine (MD’79), internal medicine at Emory University (1979-82), and back to UC for Cardiology (1982-85), Clinical Pharmacology (1984-85), and Nuclear Medicine (1984-86). He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
Dr. Williams began his academic leadership as UC faculty (1986) and was promoted to Professor of Medicine and Radiology in 2003. He became the Dorothy Susan Timmis Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiology at Wayne State University in 2010, and was the James B. Herrick Professor and Chief of Cardiology at Rush University (2013-22). He also served as Rush’s Associate Dean for Faculty Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (2020 -22) until his appointment as Chairman of Medicine at UofL in 2022.He has served as President of the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), and as Chairman of the Board of the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC). His career has focused on advocacy for national nutrition education, eradication of national and international healthcare disparities, improved healthcare access, overall health system reform, sustainable health care financing and increased access to advanced cardiac imaging. Dr. Williams has been a delegate for cardiology to the AMA for over 20 years and has served as a consultant for the FDA and CMS. He is active on the Task Force advising the 2022 White House Conference on Nutrition, Health and Hunger.
He was the founder of the Urban Cardiology Initiative in Detroit, Michigan, aiming to reduce ethnic heart care disparities, and continued these community-based efforts in Chicago at Rush, including the H.E.A.R.T. program (Helping Everyone Assess Risk Today), screening for heart disease, intervening with education, nutrition and lifestyle changes. At University of Louisville, he transitioned the H.E.A.R.T. program to include diagnostic testing for risk assessment (Helping Everyone Address Risk Today).
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention (https://ijdrp.org/index.php/ijdrp). He is an internationally recognized author and speaker with over 1300 original research manuscripts, book chapters, editorial and guideline publications, online resources, movies and lectures, most recently on the topics of cardionutrition and health equity.
He has been perennially named in America’s Top Doctors and has received multiple national and international awards including lifetime achievement recognition from ABC (Daniel D. Savage Award), ASNC (Mario Verani Lecturer), National Lipid Association (Lifetime Membership Award), the German Cardiac Society (Gold Key Recipient and Keynote Lecturer) and the Australia New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine for over 20 consecutive years of Keynote Lectures (2002 to 2022).
Scott Stoll, MD, FABPMR
Speaker
Dr. Kim Allan Williams, Sr., is the Endowed Professor of Health Equity and Chairman of the Department of Medicine at University of Louisville (UofL). He originates from the South Side of Chicago, and transitioned from the inner-city Chicago Public Schools to the College of the University of Chicago (UC), where he majored in biology (AB’75). He earned four Maroon varsity tennis letters, playing number one singles for his last three years, and subsequently taught and played tennis professionally. He trained at UC’s Pritzker School of Medicine (MD’79), internal medicine at Emory University (1979-82), and back to UC for Cardiology (1982-85), Clinical Pharmacology (1984-85), and Nuclear Medicine (1984-86). He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Computed Tomography.
Dr. Williams began his academic leadership as UC faculty (1986) and was promoted to Professor of Medicine and Radiology in 2003. He became the Dorothy Susan Timmis Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiology at Wayne State University in 2010, and was the James B. Herrick Professor and Chief of Cardiology at Rush University (2013-22). He also served as Rush’s Associate Dean for Faculty Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (2020-22) until his appointment as Chairman of Medicine at UofL in 2022.
He has served as President of the American College of Cardiology and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC), and as Chairman of the Board of the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC). His career has focused on advocacy for national nutrition education, eradication of national and international health care disparities, improved healthcare access, overall health system reform, sustainable health care financing and increased access to advanced cardiac imaging. Dr. Williams has been a delegate for cardiology to the AMA for over 20 years and has served as a consultant for the FDA and CMS. He is active on the Task Force advising the 2022 White House Conference on Nutrition, Health and Hunger.
He was the founder of the Urban Cardiology Initiative in Detroit, Michigan, aiming to reduce ethnic heart care disparities, and continued these community-based efforts in Chicago at Rush, including the H.E.A.R.T. program (Helping Everyone Assess Risk Today), screening for heart disease, intervening with education, nutrition and lifestyle changes. At University of Louisville, he transitioned the H.E.A.R.T. program to include diagnostic testing for risk assessment (Helping Everyone Address Risk Today).
He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Disease Reversal and Prevention (https://ijdrp.org/index.php/ijdrp). He is an internationally recognized author and speaker with over 1300 original research manuscripts, book chapters, editorial and guideline publications, online resources, movies and lectures, most recently on the topics of cardionutrition and health equity.
He has been perennially named in America’s Top Doctors and has received multiple national and international awards including lifetime achievement recognition from ABC (Daniel D. Savage Award), ASNC (Mario Verani Lecturer), National Lipid Association (Lifetime Membership Award), the German Cardiac Society (Gold Key Recipient and Keynote Lecturer) and the Australia New Zealand Society of Nuclear Medicine for over 20 consecutive years of Keynote Lectures (2002 to 2022).
Sharon Wasserstrom, MD
Speaker
Dr. Sharon Wasserstrom is board certified in Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. She is uniquely skilled in providing tailored lifestyle management that helps prevent, improve and reverse already established disease.Dr. Wasserstrom received a B.A. in psychology from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. She then went on to earn a master’s degree in interdisciplinary studies in biological and physical sciences at Touro College in Dix Hill, New York. S
he received her M.D. at the Technion Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel and the completed her residency in internal medicine at North Shore University Hospital of Manhasset. Dr. Wasserstrom worked as an internist for Montefiore Medical Group in Bronx, New York for 15 years before joining UCF Health. She has achieved a certification of professional achievement in medical nutrition and has completed nine courses in nutrition biochemistry, growth development and aging, medical nutrition therapy, clinical nutrition and counseling techniques.
She was also in the first class to ever receive board certification in the field of lifestyle medicine from The American Board of Lifestyle Medicine (ABLM). She is a highly talented and experienced physician with a passion for improving patients’ lives in a way that works for them. With 15 years of experience working in outpatient care, she is highly familiar with diagnosis and treatment of multiple disease states and health concerns.
Josh Taylor
Head Farmer
Josh Taylor serves as the Head Farmer for 4Roots, overseeing the design, install and operations of the farming components for the campus. Josh is the founder of Do Good Farm, a non-profit that exists to end hunger and malnutrition around the world, through sustainable farming. The goal is to teach and empower people to grow their own food, instead of just shipping rice and beans over and over again. Do Good Farm has worked on projects around the world, like the Discovery School in Burundi, Africa and an orphanage in Honduras, and locally a farm-to-table school cafeteria concept at Hope Charter School that exists to impact malnutrition in the school system of the food deserts in our own back yard.
Josh also founded and runs House Blend Cafe. House Blend exists to change the world by giving away 100% of the net profit from the operation into hard situations around the world, like helping to end human trafficking, bringing clean water to people in need, etc. Do Good Farm is the expression that seeks to end hunger and malnutrition.
Josh has been in the restaurant business for over 30 years and is passionate about the culinary side of farming. Part of his passion is designing farms that will produce food every single day of the year and farms that will sustainably continue to produce food indefinitely. That means growing edible perennial vegetables that people may not be used to eating, like cactus, tree spinach, moringa and many others. The culinary piece of that puzzle is crucial in order to teach people how to cook these unique foods so that they will love to eat them.
Josh graduated from Georgia Tech with a degree in Business Management, New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary with a Masters of Divinity, Full Sail University with a degree in Audio Engineering and is currently pursuing a doctorate from Southern Evangelical Seminary in Apologetics.
