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Food As Medicine Network: Live 2025

May 8, 2025 | Chicago, IL

Clinicians can turbocharge the effectiveness of food as medicine initiatives by helping patients recognize the potency of dietary interventions and by making strategic referrals. Nevertheless, health professionals have historically not received the nutrition education required to fully assume this role. At the Food As Medicine Network’s Live 2025 event, learn from Gaples Institute Executive Director Stephen Devries, MD, about the exciting progress in bringing nutrition education into medical training and the remarkable ways that engaged clinicians can transform the food as medicine movement.

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Past Events

Nutrition Conference: 2019 Gaples Institute Live CME Event

May 5, 2019 | Chicago, IL

The Gaples Institute, along with co-host Northwestern University, was honored to host physicians and nurses from Minnesota to Massachusetts on May 5, 2019 for this continuing education conference nutrition conference, “Nutrition Science from Populations to Plates: What Every Clinician Needs to Know.” (View highlights reel)

The recipe for the conference is a unique blend of nutrition science, food demos, and hands-on cooking—all designed to …

Mended Hearts

November 13, 2018 | Chicago, IL.

Dr. Devries spoke to the Chicago chapter of the Mended Hearts group on Leveraging Nutrition and Lifestyle Changes for Maximal Health Benefits. 

Cardiometabolic Health Conference 2018

October 24, 2018 | Boston, MA

Dr. Devries gave a plenary talk at the Cardiometabolic Health Congress in Boston to 800 clinicians and health educators on “Interventional Cardiology Delivered With a Fork.”

Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

September 26, 2018 | Chicago, IL.

Dr. Devries presented Grand Rounds to a standing room only group of rehabilitation specialists at Shirley Ryan AbilityLab (formerly Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago) on “Nutrition for Health and Longevity“.

University of Arizona Nutrition & Health Conference

April 30, 2018 | Boston, MA

Dr. Devries moderated a plenary panel on “Food and Nutrition Public Policy” at the University of Arizona’s Nutrition and Health Conference. Panelists included: Dr. Andrew Weil, Emily Broad Leib from the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, Dr. Peter Lurie from the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and Jerold Mande from the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.