Farshad Fani (“Shad”) Marvasti, MD, MPH is a physician leader and medical educator who has dedicated his career to redesigning medical education and health care to stem the tide of chronic disease by finding innovative ways to address the social, behavioral, and lifestyle determinants of health. As a practicing physician, Dr. Marvasti advocates for the use of food as medicine and actively teaches his patients to buy and prepare healthy meals with food prescriptions as a standard part of treating their medical conditions. He currently serves as the founding director of the Culinary Medicine Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix which connects agricultural systems, health care, and health professional educational programs to improve food and nutrition security as a means of optimizing individual, community, and planetary health. Dr. Marvasti also serves as the director of the Integrative Medicine department at HonorHealth where he leads efforts to create innovative and value-based care models to prevent, treat, and reverse the diet and lifestyle sensitive diseases of our time. He obtained both his Medical Doctorate and Masters of Public Health from the University of Arizona and subsequently completed his medical residency training at the Stanford University School of Medicine in Family Medicine and as postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Stanford Prevention Research Center. Dr. Marvasti served as faculty at the Stanford School of Medicine from 2011 to 2019 and currently holds academic appointments as Associate Professor in the College of Medicine Phoenix, College of Public Health, and School of Nutritional Sciences and Wellness at The University of Arizona. (Pheonix, AZ)