Dr. Julia Nordgren is a physician, an expert in childhood obesity and cholesterol disorders, and a trained chef. She received her medical degree from Dartmouth Medical School in 1999. She is a board-certified pediatrician, and a specialist in dyslipidemias, weight management, and heart disease prevention. She is an active member of the National Lipid Association’s Pediatric Practice Management Committee, which strives to prevent heart disease through early lifestyle interv

Laura Stec is a private and corporate chef, educator and author, specializing in meals, events and products for healthy people and the planet. She is the Innovative Cuisine and Culinary Health Educator for Kaiser Permanente and Bay-Area corporate wellness programs. Trained at the Culinary Institute of America, the School of Natural Cookery and the Vega Macrobiotic Center, Laura has worked in restaurants since age 16, including the iconic Seva in Ann Arbor, MI, and San Fran

SOUL Food Salon hosted it's first health panel FEATURING: Eric Weiss, MD, Jennifer Miller, MD, Amanda Bernshteyn, MPH, NC, Sandee Birdwell, MD Jeanne Rosner, MD (as moderator) "Separating the Forest from the Trees" A Panel Discussion on how we might best analyze and maneuver through conflicting messages in the nutrition space ERIC L. WEISS, MD Building on years of academic medicine at Stanford University and UCSF, as well as entrepreneurship at several Silicon Valley sta

Jennifer Tyler Lee is a mother, the creator of an award-winning nutrition game that makes healthy eating fun, and the author of The 52 NewFoods Challenge: A Family Cooking Adventure for Each Week of the Year (Penguin Random House). Her family cooking adventures have been featured by Michael Pollan, Jamie Oliver, Laurie David, Rachel Ray, Pottery Barn Kids, Williams Sonoma, and WholeFoods. She is a contributor at the Huffington Post and the James Beard award-winning magazine,