Dear Friend,
The Physicians Association for Nutrition is growing – in the U.S. and around the world. We’re proud of our work empowering health professionals, the public, and policymakers with evidence-based knowledge that whole food, plant-based nutrition promotes health and prevents and treats disease. Eating more plants and fewer animal products improves health, lessens our environmental impact, and reduces the number of animals raised for consumption.
In addition to PAN's existing national offices in several European countries, South Africa, and Israel, we are launching programs in India and Brazil, as well as a collaboration in China.
Our new website highlights our work, and we are particularly proud of our Nutrition for Families program. Based in the U.S. and serving the world, we support health professionals and families in healthful plant-based diets from pregnancy through infancy, childhood, and adolescence, with particular attention on the first 1,000 days – pregnancy and the first two years of life. Our initial resources include guides for plant-based nutrition and healthy pregnancies and first two years. More coming soon!
PAN is honored to serve clinicians, families, and the public in healthy nutrition. Thank you for your support. Your generosity makes our work possible.
In partnership,
Allan Kornberg, MD, MBA, FAAP
Medical & Executive Director, PAN USA
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Meet the Nutrition for Families Team |
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Tami Turner, PhD, RD
Nutrition Director
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Dr. Turner is a Registered Dietitian with a Ph.D. in Nutritional Biology from the University of California, Davis. Her postdoctoral research focused on nutrition and behavior related to obesity and diabetes at the University of Arizona. Her undergraduate degrees are in Biology and Chemistry. |
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Dr. Turner is a widely-published nutrition researcher and has experience designing health programs with particular work in behavior change. Examples include using plant-based interventions to reduce vitamin deficiencies in breastfeeding women in developing countries, a diabetes prevention program for children and families, a mindfulness app for teens to foster healthy lifestyle behaviors, and a text message coaching program to promote smoking cessation for the NIH.
Tami's experience includes working as a nutrition researcher with the USDA; as a dietitian in private practice, for the food industry, and in pharmacies in the US Air Force; and as a science teacher.
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Carolin Wiedmann, MD
Medical Director, Pediatrics
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Carolin Wiedmann is a pediatrician with additional sub-specialty training in pediatric nutritional medicine. After completing training, she practiced in the Allergy Department at the University Hospital in Munich, Germany, where she focused on food allergies, and in a general pediatric private clinic, where she focused on preventive and adolescence medicine. |
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In medical school, Carolin became aware of how little nutrition knowledge is taught to future doctors, even though nutrition plays such an important role in both wellness and the prevention and treatment of multiple diseases. She co-founded PAN International and serves as chairwoman of PAN’s global Board of Directors.
Plant-based herself for many years, one of the things especially close to her heart is supporting families and their clinicians in implementing a wholesome, nutritionally-sound plant-based diet during pregnancy and childhood. She advises families in her nutrition consultation practice in addition to working with PAN.
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Clinical Advisory Council |
The Nutrition for Families program is also supported by an international team of physicians, dietitians, and a pharmacist. Two advisory team partners – Reshma Shah, MD, MPH, a pediatrician from California committed to healthy nutrition for children, especially in medical education, and Brenda Davis, RD, a renowned world expert on plant-based nutrition from Alberta, Canada – published Nourish, a definitive plant-based guide for families that we highly recommend. |
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Plant-Based Nutrition Podcast |
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PAN USA board member and research director Tracy Cushing, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, recently launched Physician to Physician: Plant-Based Nutrition Podcast. The podcast breaks down the science behind plant-based nutrition and answers the questions physicians (and others) have and patients ask. Dr. Cushing and her colleague, Eden English, MD, collaborated with Balanced, a PAN USA partner that works to create a healthier food system one menu at a time – including for schools, universities, and hospitals. |
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News from the Medical Literature |
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The scientific literature has an increasing number of papers speaking to the health and wellness benefits of plant-forward diets, along with disease prevention, mitigation and treatment.
The American Cancer Society has released a comprehensive guideline on diet and physical activity and cancer. It states that, for many cancers, a plant-based diet is associated with positive outcomes. In several instances where animal-sourced foods are noted, plant-rich diets are recognized as being preferable, and many parts of the guideline recommend excluding or limiting red and processed meats and highly-processed foods.
For breast cancer specifically, soy food consumption before diagnosis is associated with lower risk of death. There is also consistent evidence that soy intake, whether pre- or post-diagnosis, is associated with a lower risk of recurrence.
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The Physicians Association for Nutrition (PAN) empowers health professionals, the public, and policymakers with evidence-based knowledge that whole food, plant-based nutrition promotes health and prevents and treats disease. PAN USA is the US national office of PAN International.
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