How Elevance Health plans to integrate ‘food as medicine’ across its lines of business

(By Jakob Emerson for Becker’s Hospital Review)

In June, Elevance Health named Kofi Essel, MD, as its first food as medicine program director, signaling a paradigm shift within one of the country’s largest healthcare organizations.

Dr. Essel is a community pediatrician by training, having most recently worked at Children’s National Health System in Washington, D.C. Before that, he was the director of the culinary medicine program at George Washington University’s School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Continue reading here…

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