The novelist and poet Wendell Berry once commented that “people are fed by the food industry, which pays no attention to health, and are treated by the health industry, which pays no attention to food.” The new field of lifestyle medicine is changing that, getting back to the basics that are so important in maintaining health and well-being.  Dr. Friedman, a board-certified geriatrician and lifestyle medicine physician, will discuss the pillars of lifestyle medicine – especially whole-food plant-based nutrition – and how they promote healthy aging as part of the LJCC's Synagogue Vegan Challenge.

Join the Zoom Room for this event.

Speaker Bio

Dr. Friedman is a board-certified geriatrician and internist.  She received her MD and MPH degrees from Northwestern University.  She completed her residency and Geriatric fellowship training at Johns Hopkins Bayview in Baltimore, MD, and was on faculty there for 5 years before moving to the University of Rochester in 2000.  She is a Professor of Medicine and has authored more than 50 high-impact papers including serving as the lead author of the White Paper on Healthy Aging, published in 2018 by the American Geriatrics Society.

Dr. Friedman is the founding director of the lifestyle medicine program at the University of Rochester.  Her passion is healthy aging - developing clinical, educational, and systems approaches to ensuring that we can all age well, with health and dignity.