Presented by Global Surgery

Clinical insight on preventive medicine and nutrition:
What You Need To Know About Preventive Medicine & Nutrition
That Medical School Didn't Teach Us!
BONUS Q&A With The Doctors!
Location
J.J.R MacLeod Auditorium
Room 2158, Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle, University of Toronto
Date & Time
September 26, 2024, 6:00PM
"What I Wish I Learned In Medical School About Nutrition"
DR MICHAEL KLAPER, MD
Dr. Klaper, is a gifted clinician, internationally recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health. He has practiced medicine for more than 40 years and is a leading educator in applied plant-based nutrition and integrative medicine.
Dr. Klaper graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in Chicago (1972), served a medical internship at Vancouver General Hospital in British Columbia, Canada with additional training in internal medicine, surgery, anesthesiology, and orthopedics at the University of British Columbia Hospitals in Vancouver and in obstetrics at the University of California Hospitals in San Francisco.  He practiced acute care medicine in New Zealand for three years and served for eight years on the staff of the TrueNorth Health Center in Santa Rosa, California, a nutrition-based medical clinic specializing in therapeutic fasting and health improvement through a whole-food, plant-based diet.
Dr. Michael Klaper teaches that, “Health comes from healthy living” and over his medical career,  has seen a whole-food, plant-based diet and lifestyle improvement reverse clogged arteries (atherosclerosis), high blood pressure (hypertension), obesity, adult onset diabetes, and 
Dr. Klaper served as an advisor to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) project on nutrition for long-term space colonists on the moon and Mars. He was also a member of the Nutrition Task Force of the American Medical Student Association and served as the Director of the non-profit Institute of Nutrition Education and Research. 
A source of inspiration advocating plant-based diets and the end of animal cruelty worldwide, Dr. Klaper contributed to the making of two PBS television programs Food for Thought and the award-winning Diet for a New America movie based on the book of the same name. He has also been featured in two other documentaries, “What The Health” and “Cowspiracy”. He feels the most important work of his career is unfolding now in the Moving Medicine Forward Initiative wherein he travels to the nation’s medical schools and educates the students on using plant-predominant nutrition and positive lifestyle changes to truly heal their patients.
Dr Dean Sherzai, MD, PhD, MPH, MAS
Dr. Dean Sherzai is a behavioral neurologist / neuroscientist whose entire life has been dedicated to behavioral change models at the community and population level. Dean finished his medical and neurology residencies at Georgetown University with a subsequent fellowship in neurodegenerative diseases at the National Institutes of Health, followed by a second fellowship in Dementia and Geriatrics at the University of California, San Diego. He also holds two master’s degrees in Advanced Sciences at UCSD and in Epidemiology from Loma Linda University. He has received a PhD in Healthcare leadership focused on community empowerment from Loma Linda/Andrews University. Finally, he completed the executive leadership program at Harvard Business School. His vision has always been to revolutionize healthcare by empowering communities to take control of their own health.
Preventive Medicine I didn't learn about in Medical School
Dr Ayesha Z. Sherzai MD, MAS
Dr. Ayesha Z. Sherzai is a vascular neurologist and a research scientist. Dr. Ayesha Sherzai completed a dual residency in neurology and lifestyle medicine at Loma Linda University. She then completed a fellowship in vascular neurology and Epidemiology at Columbia University Neurological Institute of New York. Dr. Sherzai finished a masters in advanced science and research at UCSD, and is at the tail end of a master’s degree in public health in lifestyle epidemiology from Loma Linda University. Knowing the importance of empowering her patients, and their communities, she completed an extensive culinary training program in New York and now teaches large populations how to make tasty, easy, and healthy meals for their brain health. They are the authors of two best-selling books, The Alzheimer's Solution (2017, HarperCollins) and The 30 day Alzheimer's Solution (2021, HarperCollins). They are currently leading the largest community-based brain health initiative in the country.
Guest Speakers:

  • Dr. Michael Klaper, MD, is a gifted clinician, internationally recognized teacher, and sought-after speaker on diet and health. www.DoctorKlaper.com

  • Dr. Dean Sherzai, MD, PhD, MPH, MAS is a behavioral neurologist/neuroscientist whose entire life has been dedicated to behavioral change models at the community and population level.



No food service available.

Thursday September 26th 2024 6:00pm

J.J.R MacLeod Auditorium
Room 2158, Medical Sciences Building
1 King's College Circle
University of Toronto

See map for underground parking directions

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