Culinary medicine

Abhinav Bhansali
ByDr Abhinav Bhansali
Published05 August 2019
The team behind Culinary Medicine UK discuss the concept of culinary medicine and how it can expand the conversations healthcare professionals have with patients about food and nutrition.

We encourage clinicians to use history taking and listening skills, putting the patient at the centre while respecting individual choice, culture and specific nutrition needs.

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Dr Abhinav Bhansali

Dr Abhinav Bhansali, founding director of CMUK, graduated from Imperial College School of Medicine with a first class honors in healthcare management. He has worked for Candesic, a boutique healthcare consulting firm, where he helped develop plans for the first-of-its-kind, state-of-the-art, wellness centre. He is now a GP trainee in Northwest London and strongly believes that our current attitude towards health needs to change. He believes 'driving forward innovations such as CM will help shape the change in population lifestyle needed to curb the burden of multi-morbidity.'

Culinary medicine