Meet your Instructors: Food Matters for Health Professionals

Co-taught by a physician and chef/culinary nutrition educator, Food Matters will cover the role of food, lifestyle, and cooking in preventative health and wellbeing. Learn more about teachers Jenny Breen and Kate Shafto. z.umn.edu/foodmattersce
Food Matters CE Course is an evidence-based, experiential-learning, applied nutrition, and culinary skills course for health professionals of all disciplines. The course addresses the role of food in specific health conditions and its function in health promotion and disease prevention. The relationship between the source of food and the larger food system to both environmental and human health will be explored, in addition to the importance of understanding the food system’s impact on patients and communities.
Learning methods include hands-on cooking, experiential learning activities, patient education resources, and case-based discussions. The course provides practical application of these food and nutrition principles to self-care and patient care for health professionals in an interprofessional, collaborative environment.