Michelle Hauser, MD, MS, MPA, FACLM, Chef

Michelle Hauser, MD, MS, MPA, FACLM, Chef, is clinical associate professor (affiliated) at Stanford University School of Medicine and teaches medical students and residents while practicing internal medicine/primary care and obesity medicine for the San Mateo County Health System and the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, respectively. Dr. Hauser completed medical school, the Zuckerman Fellows Program in Leadership & Public Service, and a Master of Public Policy and Administration degree at Harvard, as well as a Master of Science in Epidemiology and Clinical Research and the Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease Prevention at Stanford. She is a certified chef via Le Cordon Bleu and a fellow of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine, where she has also served on the board of directors and published the Culinary Medicine Curriculum—the first comprehensive, open-source culinary medicine curriculum for health professional training programs. Her research, clinical, and community projects blend her training in medicine, public policy, nutrition, epidemiology, and culinary arts to focus on improving education and access to delicious, healthy food for medical professionals, patients, and the general public.