Michelle Hauser, MD, MS, MPA, FACP, FACLM, DipABLM, DABOM, Chef – Stanford Medicine

Dr. Hauser is the Obesity Medicine Director of the Medical Weight Loss Program in the Stanford Lifestyle and Weight Management Center. She is a board-certified specialist in internal medicine, obesity medicine, and lifestyle medicine. She also holds the position of Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, General Surgery, and by courtesy, Primary Care and Population Health. Additionally, she is President-elect of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. Dr. Hauser is also a prevention researcher and Le Cordon Bleu-trained chef. She combines her skills to help patients move away from lifestyles that lead to chronic disease and toward those that promote health and well-being. Dr. Hauser develops and runs lifestyle and medical weight management programs that combine evidence-based, non-surgical treatment modalities, which can be used alone or as an adjunct to bariatric surgery procedures. As a chef, she recognizes the importance of enjoying food, so she incorporates cooking classes into her clinical practice to teach patients how to make delicious food that is also healthy in support of their short- and long-term health goals. Dr. Hauser wrote the first comprehensive "Culinary Medicine Curriculum" for health care professional training programs, now in use in more than 100 countries. She also runs an ongoing culinary medicine elective course for medical and physician assistant students. She has co-authored numerous articles published in peer-reviewed journals such as JAMA, American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, and American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. Topics address new strategies to improve nutrition, physical activity, and weight loss.

Kelseanna Hollis-Hansen, PhD, MPH – Tufts University

Dr. Kelseanna Hollis‑Hansen is a Research Assistant Professor at the Friedman School whose work focuses on developing and evaluating food security interventions and multi‑component strategies to support people living with diet‑sensitive chronic diseases. Over the past 15 years, she has advanced research on medically tailored nutrition programs, including medically tailored meals, groceries, and meal kits, and on improving food retail environments such as grocery stores and food pantries to promote healthier eating and household resilience. In addition to her faculty position, she serves as the Faculty Director for the New England Regional Collaborative for Food is Medicine Program, as a program advisor and consultant on behalf of the Center for Nutrition and Health Impact, and co-directs the Healthy Eating Research (HER) early-stage investigator working group. She was previously an Assistant Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, Texas.

Bobby Mukkamala, MD

Dr. Bobby Mukkamala a board-certified otolaryngologist—head and neck surgeon—in private practice in his hometown of Flint, Michigan, is the president of the American Medical Association.    A passionate advocate for public health, Dr. Mukkamala is deeply committed to creating a more sustainable health system that better supports physicians and more effectively serves the needs of people and communities. Dr. Mukkamala joined AMA’s Board of Trustees in 2017 and has been active in the AMA and organized medicine since residency. He is a past Michigan representative to the AMA Young Physicians Section, and a past recipient of the AMA Foundation’s “Excellence in Medicine” Leadership Award.   After completing his residency in Chicago, he returned to Flint to set up a private practice dedicated to addressing urgent health needs of the community. He now shares an office with his wife, Dr. Nita Kulkarni, an obstetrician-gynecologist.   Dr. Mukkamala previously served as chair of the Community Foundation of Greater Flint where he guided its focus on funding projects to reduce the effects of lead in children. Today, he continues to serve on the foundation’s committee board as it now works to increase high-quality early education opportunities for children. He also co-chairs efforts of the CRIM fitness foundation to incorporate mindfulness in its efforts to improve community health. And recently joined the board of the CS Mott Foundation headquartered in downtown Flint but doing work across the world to build a just, equitable and sustainable society.