Culinary Medicine Roundtable - Interdisciplinary Culinary Medicine: A Pathway to Medical Education Reform

November 13, 2025

With calls to action to integrate foundational nutrition and lifestyle education into physicians’ training, this roundtable emphasizes the greater impact that comes from leveraging the expertise of the broader healthcare team. Physicians, dietitians, chefs, and allied health professionals will share models of team-based practice that eliminate siloed approaches, promote accountability across disciplines, and demonstrate how system-level reforms can make interdisciplinary collaboration sustainable.

Target Audience

 
This activity is intended to meet the educational needs of the healthcare team including but not limited to:
  • Physicians
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Nurses
  • Physician Assistants
  • Registered Dietitians
  • Master and Doctorate Level Nutritionists
  • Pharmacists
  • Certified Diabetic Educators
  • Optometrists

Learning Objectives

  • Explain how physicians, dietitians, chefs, and allied health professionals each contribute unique expertise to the design and delivery of culinary medicine education and patient care.
  • Evaluate interdisciplinary models and collaborative strategies that reduce siloed approaches and improve outcomes in medical and health professional training.
  • Develop actionable ideas or strategies to enhance collaboration across disciplines within their own institution or program.

 

Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 ABIM MOC 2
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacist
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 2.00 Completion
  • 2.00 CDR
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 2.00 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of this activity/material.
  • 2.00 Nursing CEU
Course opens: 
01/17/2025
Course expires: 
11/30/2027
Event starts: 
11/13/2025 - 11:00am EST
Event ends: 
11/13/2025 - 1:00pm EST
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Faculty & Disclosure
 
Planning Committee
Timothy S. Harlan, MD (Activity Director)    
The George Washington University
 
Kerri Dotson, RD
 
 
Faculty
Timothy S. Harlan, MD (Activity Director)    
The George Washington University
 
Kerri Dotson, RD
 
 
 
Disclosure of Relevant Financial Relationships
In accordance with The Standards for Integrity and Independence, GW requires all planners, faculty, and others in control of educational content to disclose the absence or existence of all financial relationships (of any dollar amount) with any ineligible companies within the past 24 months. We define ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 
GW reviews all disclosure statements to determine which financial relationships are relevant to the educational content of the CE Activity.  An individual is considered to have a relevant financial relationship if the educational content an individual can control is related to the business lines or products of the ineligible company.
 
Disclosure Statement(s)
 
Absence of Relevant Financial Relationships
None of the planners, faculty, or others in a position to control content for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
 
Disclaimer
The information in this educational activity is provided for general medical education purposes only and is not meant to substitute for the independent medical judgment of a physician relative to diagnostic and treatment options of a specific patient’s medical condition. The viewpoints expressed in this CME activity are those of the authors/faculty. They do not represent an endorsement by The George Washington University.
 
 
 

Culinary Medicine Roundtable - Interdisciplinary Culinary Medicine: A Pathway to Medical Education Reform

American College of Culinary Medicine

Accreditation Statements

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences and American College of Culinary Medicine. The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

 
Credit Designation Statement(s)
Physicians (CME)
 
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences designates this live activity for a maximum of 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
 
ABIM Maintenance of Certification (MOC)
 
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 2.00 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. 
 
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences will submit participant completion information to the ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit. You can check the status of your submission via the “Reported Credits” tab in your learner profile.
 
American Osteopathic Association (AOA)
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
 
The American Osteopathic Association (AOA) recognizes AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ earned as AOA Category 2 credit. 
 
It is the physician's responsibility to report CME credits earned directly to AOA.
 
Ways to report CME Credit:
Pharmacists (CPE)
 
The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
 
ACPE#: 0536-0000-25-060-L99-P
Release Date: 11/13/2025
Expiration Date: 11/13/2028
CE Credits:2.00(0.2)
 
Dietitians
The Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. 
 
Nurse Practitioners
The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certified Program (AANPCP) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
 
Nurses
For recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) accepts AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.
 
Physician Assistants
The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME or a recognized state medical society.
 
Other Healthcare Professionals (Attendance)
All other healthcare professionals who successfully complete the activity will receive a Certificate of Attendance.  Many credentialing bodies such as the ANCC, AANP, and AAPA accept certificates of attendance for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME. If you have doubts about whether an activity will qualify for CE, please contact your certifying organization for clarification on credit eligibility.
 

Available Credit

  • 2.00 ABIM MOC 2
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacist
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
  • 2.00 Completion
  • 2.00 CDR
    The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences is a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). CDR Credentialed Practitioners will receive 2.00 Continuing Professional Education units (CPEUs) for completion of this activity/material.
  • 2.00 Nursing CEU
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