3rd Annual Florida Food is Medicine Symposium 2025

 8:00 am 

Welcome! Doors open, Registration, Materials, Goody Bags & Handouts.

8:00 am - 8:30 am 

BREAKFAST SPONSOR: Sifter Solutions & the Healthy Food Rx Shopping Companion for Florida Food is Medicine programs and clients

Network and enjoy healthy breakfast and  fresh coffee or tea.

8:30 am - 8:45 am   

Welcome from  Pierre Monice, CEO of Holy Cross Health, Mayor Tim Lonergan, City of Oakland Park, and Michael Farver, CEO, South Florida Hunger Coalition 

8:45 am - 9:20 am   

Welcome by Broward County Commissioner Beasley Pittman, and Palm Beach County Commissioner, and Alachua County Commissioner Anna Prizzia. Warm Welcome video by FL US House Representative Deborah Wasserman Schultz.

9:20 am - 10:00 am   

Florida Keynote: Dr. Scott Angle, EVP, University of Florida / IFAS, Former Provost, Former USDA NIFA Chief, 2023 Pioneer in Food is Medicine recipient for initiating GusNIP and PPRx  model funded across the USA. 

10:00 am - 10:30 am   

Keynote: Dr. Dariush  (Dary)  Mozaffarian, MD DrPH, Cardiologist, Director, Tufts Food is Medicine Institute. Former President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition.    

10:30 am - 11:00 am   

Holly Frieshtat, Senior Director, Feeding Change, Milken Institute hosts the Panel of Co-Chairs from 7 Regional Networks of Excellence. 

11:00 am -11:10 am Networking Break

11:10 am -11:45 am

Scott Darius, Florida Voices for Health is back as Host by popular demand. 

Leaders from the National Produce Prescriptions Collaborative (NPPC), Center for Health Law Policy and Innovation at Harvard Law School, (CHLPI), Food is Medicine Coalition (FIMC),  Food is Medicine Institute (FIMI) at Tufts University will discuss policy outlooks, impact and Q&A.   

11:45 am -12:20 pm   

Panel hosted by Dr. Kristi Messer, DHSc, LCSW, MPH, Assistant Dean of Bachelor Degree Programs, Dr. Kiran C. Patel College of Osteopathic Medicine, Associate Professor of Public Health.

Meet the 2025 FL FIM All Stars, hear their stories, & lively Q&A

1. Karen TwoShoes - Seminole Tribe of Florida
2. Nichole Dube - Access to Fresh
3. Dr. Angelica Parra - Joe DiMaggio Children's Hospital
4. Peter Mougey & John Peacock - One Pensacola

12:20 pm-12:45 pm

Karen Joseph, American Culinary Medicine Institute + Dr. Nicole Farmer, Staff Scientist and Attending Physician at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at the George Washington School of Medicine and Public Health. From Karen's kitchen to Nicole's lab at the Clinical Center, hear how culinary medicine & cooking affects brain, body and heart.  

12:45 pm - 1:30 pm  

SPONSOR: FareRx

You're invited to a sponsored healthy lunch by FareRx. 

12:45 pm - 1:00 pm

Tour the new Pleasantville Mobile Produce Prescriptions Clinic Bus  with Pastor Gerard Duncan, all the way from Gainesville, in partnership with UF Health, bringing food is medicine to the community.

1: 00 pm - 3:30 pm

Explore Culinary Medicine in a 2-hour masterclass in person live with a food demo in the new culinary kitchen. Enjoy a tasting menu for lunch at the Holy Cross Family Health Center. 

Max 20 Tickets |  Fee: $25 | Pre-registration required.

1: 30 pm - 2:30 pm

Panel led by Maura Plante, Healthy Food Rx creator, with a practical discussion and array of options to source food for your FIM clients and programs. Panelists include Sysco, Sifter, East Coast Farms, Morrisey Markets, Big Green,  and Planet Harvest. 

2: 30 pm - 3:30 pm

Professor Danielle D. Treadwell PhD from the Department of Horticultural Sciences, University of Florida will share what is next generation science in horticulture for food is medicine from her recent published journal article titled: Food Rx: Integrating horticulture research to improve nutrition and health. Click here to view.

3: 30 pm - 3:35 pm

Florida House Representative Debra Tendrich, also Co-Founder of the Florida Health & Nutrition Coalition gives the closing remarks and lays out what's ahead for Food is Medicine in the Florida Legislature. 

 Here is the link to register for your own personal zoom link. 

Check your inbox for an email from "zoom" with subject line " 2nd Annual Florida Food is Medicine Symposium Confirmation". Click your personal link to join the Symposium.