CFS Guest Speaker: Dr. Steven Chen on The Role of Healthcare Professionals in Creating Food Systems Change

​Join us for the June installment of the CFS Guest Speaker series to learn about the role of healthcare professionals in creating systems change!

​We will be joined by Dr. Steven Chen, Chief Medical Officer of Alameda County Recipe4Health, an award winning “food as medicine” model that intentionally brings together health care, food systems, and agriculture to improve food/nutrition insecurity, chronic conditions, and health/racial equity. Dr. Chen is a board-certified family medicine physician who completed his residency training at UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital and serves on the Board of Integrative Medicine for the Underserved (IM4US). As a former Medical Director at Alameda Health System trained in LEAN process improvement, he led the design of a state-of-the-art clinic replete with a teaching kitchen, group rooms to support group medical visits, and pod based care teams.

​He will be sharing his personal journey in the medical field, what brought him to Recipe4Health, and leading a discussion on the role of healthcare professionals in creating food systems change.