John La Puma
John La Puma, M.D., is a board-certified internist and a professional chef. He is medical director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Medical Nutrition and Healthy Weight, and co-founded ChefMD®, which sends out thousands of free, healthy quick recipes every week. Dr. La Puma hosts “What's Cookin' with ChefMD?" which airs weekly on the Lifetime cable TV channel. He has written several books on cooking and culinary medicine. He is a graduate of the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a graduate of the Baylor College of Medicine. He was honored with the National Association of Medical Communicators’ 2007 "Award of Excellence.”
