Dr. Shad Farshad Fani Marvasti, MD, MPH) is a Stanford trained physician and medical educator. He is proactively engaged in redesigning medical education and health care to create innovative solutions to prevent and reverse the chronic diseases of our time. As a physician and public speaker, he routinely advocates for the use of food as medicine and lifestyle therapies as an important way to treat almost any medical condition and to achieve optimal health in all aspects of life. As an emerging thought leader, Dr. Shad has published in the New England Journal of Medicine where he and his co-author make the case for redesigning medicine to create a prevention based health care system. Having undertaken clinical research, authored scientific publications, and written articles on health and nutrition since 1997, he is currently writing his first full length book for the general public with his colleague and mentor Dr. Richard Carmona, 17th Surgeon General of the United States. Dr. Shad's work has been featured on local and national media where he has been quoted or interviewed for his recognized expertise on the COVID-19 Pandemic, Public Health, Prevention, Nutrition and the use of Food as Medicine, Wellness, Integrative Medicine, Diabetes and Cardiometabolic Diseases, and the use of targeted precision medicine lifestyle therapies and Evidence-Based Supplements to optimize health and longevity.