About us

Plant-based health professionals UK is a Community Interest Company dedicated to providing education and advocacy on whole food plant-based nutrition and lifestyle medicine for prevention and treatment of chronic disease. In addition to practicing conventional medicine, we are passionate about promoting health and well-being using a plant-based, lifestyle approach. There is no doubt that conventional medicine has resulted in some astonishing advances in patient care. However, the current model of healthcare in the UK focuses primarily on treating established disease, rather than emphasising interventions that could prevent or reduce the burden of chronic disease.

We hope to provide a valuable resource for the education of healthcare professionals and the general public alike and aim to empower individuals to take control of their own health and share this information with patients, friends and their families.

Shireen Kassam MBBS, FRCPATH, PHD, DipIBLM

Founder and Director

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Dr Shireen Kassam is a Consultant Haematologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College Hospital, London with a specialist interest in the treatment of lymphoma. She is also a Visiting-Professor at University of Winchester, Hampshire, where she has developed and facilitates the UK’s first University-based course on plant-based nutrition. In 2023 she launched a course on lifestyle medicine for cancer.

 

Shireen is passionate about promoting plant-based nutrition for the prevention and reversal of chronic disease and for maintaining optimal health after treatment for cancer. In 2019 she became certified as a Lifestyle Medicine Physician and is also a CHIP facilitator.

 

Shireen founded Plant-Based Health Professionals UK in 2018, a non-profit, membership organisation whose mission is to provide evidence-based education on whole food plant-based nutrition.

 

Shireen qualified as a doctor in 2000. During her training, she completed a PhD, which investigated the role of selenium in sensitising cancer cells to chemotherapy. Shireen has published a number of peer-reviewed papers in the field of lymphoma. Her first book, Eating Plant-Based, Scientific Answers to Your Nutrition Questions, co-authored with her sister Zahra, was published in January 2022. She has also co-edited the textbook Plant-Based Nutrition in Clinical Practice, published in September 2022.                                                     

The core team

Rohini Bajekal, Comms lead at Plant Based Health Professionals UK

Rohini Bajekal

Nutritionist, Communications and Marketing for PBHP UK

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Rohini Bajekal (MA Oxon, MSc Nutrition and Food Sciences, Dip IBLM) is a nutritionist and board-certified Lifestyle Medicine professional. Prior to becoming a nutritionist, she studied Theology at Oxford University. Having previously worked in India and Singapore, Rohini is based in London and provides evidence-based nutrition and lifestyle advice and group programmes to her clients around the world. She is the Communications Lead at Plant-Based Health Professionals UK.

Rohini co-authored her first book Living PCOS Free: How to Regain Your Hormonal Health with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome which was published in April 2022. She also wrote the chapter on lifestyle medicine for the book How To Go Plant-Based: A Definitive Guide For You and Your Family by Ella Mills, founder of Deliciously Ella.

Rohini regularly comments in the media with a focus on myth-busting around nutrition. She has been featured in publications such as The Guardian, Refinery 29, SheerLuxe, Cosmopolitan and Women’s Health. She has been following a plant-based diet for almost 20 years.

Sign up for her regular newsletters via www.rohinibajekal.com and follow her on Instagram @rohinibajekal for daily tips on healthy living. You can also reach her via email at  rohini@pbhp.uk.

Giovanna Dicandia, nursing lead at Plant Based Health Professionals UK

Giovanna Dicandia

Nursing lead

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Giovanna is a nurse practitioner who started her career in 2010 with BSc in Nursing in Italy. After gaining experience in the medical and surgical fields as well as mental health, she moved to the UK and joined the NHS in 2014 where she has mainly worked in cardiology, focusing on the care of patients with heart failure.

As a nurse she developed an interest in healthy lifestyles, integrating holistic and more sustainable practices into both her personal and professional life. She made the transition to a plant-based diet and vegan lifestyle in 2020 and became a passionate advocate for plant-based nutrition, driven by concerns for human health, environmental sustainability and animal welfare.

In October 2023, following national shortlisting, she took part in the Green Healthcare Leadership Programme run by the Florence Nightingale Foundation Academy. She presented a sustainability quality improvement project to transition to a predominantly plant-based food system in hospitals while raising awareness and educating patients and colleagues about the benefits of a plant-based diet.

She founded a plant-based community at her local NHS hospital where she works; she is a member of the Nurses and Midwives Sustainability Network for NHS England and a proud member of Plant-based Health Professionals UK. She completed the Plant-based Nutrition course at the University of Winchester in May 2024, and she is currently studying to become certified as a Lifestyle Medicine Professional and Diplomate of the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine (IBLM)

You can contact Giovanna via email at giovanna@pbhp.uk

Kate Dunbar

Patient Advocate and Graphic Designer

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As a stressed, 40-year-old primary school teacher, Kate succumbed to inflammatory arthritis, later diagnosed as psoriatic arthritis. It seemed like every joint in her body was inflamed and in hindsight, she realised that she had suffered a few previous undiagnosed attacks over the years, but this was the most debilitating. Everything was extremely painful if not impossible; walking, sitting, and even sleeping. She was signed off work for a year. Thankfully with medication, her condition was brought under relative control. Soon after, 15 years ago, and with support from her husband, she embarked on a vegan diet and was able to slash her medication by more than half.

In 2017, Kate discovered a whole food plant-based (WFPB) diet, and it’s amazing restorative and disease preventing benefits. At last she is completely in remission and medication free.

With a new lease of life, she is an active community member, founder of Hunstanton Community Orchard, graphic designer, ceramicist and community arts provider. She loves cooking and growing vegetables. She is a passionate advocate of plant-based nutrition and exercise, now runs half marathons regularly.

She is beyond thankful that there are plant-based doctors and other health professionals who are championing a WFPB diet so that other people need not go through the torture of psoriatic arthritis and other dreadful health conditions.

Twitter: KateDunbar @HunstantonTowny
Instagram: kate.dunbar
Facebook: GreenstuffVegan

 

Karen Lee

Karen Lee

Events Manager and Recipe Developer

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Karen believes that food is the key to health and puts this into practice herself by using a whole food plant-based diet to manage a variety of health challenges, including multiple sclerosis. As a (now retired) intensive care nurse and registered nutritionist, she combines her love of delicious food with her professional background to inspire others to experience the powerful effects of using food as medicine.

As ‘The Sensitive Foodie’, Karen has run courses, workshops and cooking classes, and has a popular blog where she shares easy and tasty recipes for her readers to try. She published her first book Eat Well Live Well with The Sensitive Foodie in 2019 and is currently working on her second.

Karen is an Ambassador for Overcoming MS, a diet and lifestyle programme and has helped to create PBHP factsheet on MS and was co-author on a case study about WFPB diet and MS published in AJLM. 

You can contact Karen via email karen@pbhp.uk

Claire Lynch, RD, MNutr, Dip IBLM/BSLM PBHP Education Lead

Claire Lynch, RD, MNutr, Dip IBLM/BSLM  

Education lead

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After starting out as a nurse and then raising her family, Claire undertook a career change and qualified as a dietitian. She has worked within the NHS as a community dietitian and a diabetes specialist dietitian. Claire is also a Board-Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional.

As a freelance dietitian and founder of plant:life nutrition, Claire is helping people to transform their lives through positive diet and lifestyle changes, and particularly through the power of a whole food plant-based diet. She especially enjoys helping people in mid-life to optimise their health and happiness, whether needing support with managing a chronic disease, coping with menopause, or simply taking better control of their health and fitness goals.

In her role as education lead for Plant-Based Health Professionals UK she is able to reach a wider public, and their health professionals, and is passionate about offering education and advocacy as we move towards embedding whole food plant-based nutrition into healthcare curricula and clinical practice within the UK.

Find out more about Claire and her work at plant:life nutrition or follow her on Instagram or Facebook for daily tips. You can also reach her via email at claire@plantlifenutrition.co.uk or claire@pbhp.uk.

Rosie Martin MSC

Registered Dietician

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Rosie graduated from Glasgow Caledonian University as a registered dietitian in 2017 after a career as a zoologist specialising in animal behaviour research. Working in zoological parks in the UK and Australia highlighted her concerns surrounding captive animal welfare and Rosie became a full-time vegan in 2014, inspiring her whole family to follow suit.

Following her move back to the UK, she became fascinated by the science of nutrition and health and decided to re-train as a post-graduate dietitian. During her training, Rosie spent time with The Vegan Society as a volunteer dietitian, and has since been keen to pursue the plant-based area of nutrition and dietetics.

Rosie now works for the NHS in Devon as a generalist dietitian in a wide variety of areas from oncology to coeliac disease. She is particularly interested in plant-based preventative nutrition, weight management and bowel health.

Contact: rosie@rosemarynutrition.co.uk

Dr Miriam Martinez-Biarge, MD, PHD

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Miriam qualified as a medical doctor in 1999. She trained in Paediatrics and Neonatal Medicine in Madrid, Spain. She first came to UK in 2008 to do a fellowship in Perinatal Neurology and Neurodevelopmental follow-up at Imperial College London. During that time she also finished her PhD in perinatal brain injury.

Miriam works now as an Honorary Consultant Neonatologist & Research Fellow at Queen Charlotte’s and Hammersmith Hospitals. She specialises in the follow up of infants and young children who have been born prematurely, who have had neurological problems around the time of birth, or who are at risk of neurodevelopmental impairments. She also has a private practice in Spain as a neonatologist and developmental paediatrician.

Miriam became a vegetarian when she was in medical school and has been vegan for the past 6 years. Although she became a vegan for ethical reasons, she also started to study the health benefits of plant-based diets, not only for adults but for children as well. Since 2013 she has had a blog where she promotes a whole food plant-based diet and counsels parents on how to provide good vegan food for their children. She is the author of a book on vegan nutrition for babies and children.
Michael Metoudi

Michael Metoudi, RD, M.Sc

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Michael Metoudi, RD, M.Sc. is a CORU-registered dietitian working in the research field whose sole passion lies in uncovering the continual health benefits that a plant-based diet can offer.

Michael holds a master in Molecular Medicine and has previously worked in the clinical trial space for Immunotherapy-related cancer treatments at King’s College London.

During this time  he found himself fortunate to be exposed to the emerging research into plant-based nutrition and the many benefits it can have in terms of human health. Attending the first conference of Plant-based health professionals UK back in 2018 spirited him into redirecting the course of his career path into clinical nutrition.

Recently graduated with a master in clinical nutrition and dietetics from University College Dublin, Michael now works in Dublin in nutrition research as well as in the clinic with clients of all ages,setting up health promotion classes as well as educating and helping individual clients  lead a more plant-based diet and lifestyle. His particular interests lie in nutrition and its role in cancer and the immune system.

Michael Metoudi

Dr Sundhya Raman

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Lifestyle Medicine Physician

Dr Sundhya Raman is the founder and director of My Wellness Doctor – a Lifestyle Medicine Health consultancy. She has a degree in Pharmacology & Physiology, a Medical degree from Guys, King’s and St Thomas’s, London, a PhD (D.Phil) in Genetics & Epigenetics from Oxford University and is a qualified Lifestyle Medicine physician with the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine & British Society of Lifestyle Medicine.

Dr Raman has held a variety of both clinical and research roles. She has worked with well known scientists in labs around the world including in cancer genetics at Yale University, and Alzheimers’ cellular physiology at the Wolfson Centre, London.

Her current roles include: creating toolkits on lifestyle for cardiovascular health on behalf of NHS England and lifestyle doctor at the Primary Care Cardiovascular Society. She has created and runs a lifestyle programme for lowering cholesterol in primary care. She regularly delivers talks and teaching on lifestyle medicine and healthy ageing to both healthcare professionals as well as to the lay public, including a focus on specific risks and solutions for ethnic minority groups. Her advice on lifestyle shifts for optimum health has been featured in national news publications.

Sian Roberts, book club lead at PBHP

Sian Roberts

Book Club lead

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Sian studied Pharmacy at Cardiff University & a few years later gained a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from Cardiff Business School. She has worked as a hospital pharmacist in Exeter, Nottingham & Cardiff and also as a Prescribing Advisor to GP practices in Cardiff. Her career was cut short when she, her husband and young family moved abroad in 2001 for her husband’s work: Sydney – Milan – Budapest -Sydney.  
 
By the time they returned home to Cardiff in 2014 their two daughters had become vegan for ethical reasons and it was they who encouraged her to research the health benefits of a plant-based diet as they had come across many articles stating that animal products were not health promoting. Health and fitness have always been important to her and her husband and so she was shocked when she learnt the truth. After much research, Sian and her husband adopted an exclusively plant-based diet in 2017.
 
Sian’s knowledge was further enhanced by completing the Plant-Based Nutrition course at the University of Winchester. She is also a co-leader of Plant Pod Cymru, an all-Wales community group affiliated to the global PlantPure Communities network & PCRM. She is passionate about sharing all the evidence-based information on the importance of lifestyle medicine and especially the benefits of a whole food plant-based diet for personal and planetary health and of course for the animals. 

Isabelle Sadler

Research assistant

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Isabelle Sadler holds a BSc in Human Biology and words as a research assistant. She has been following a plant-based diet since the age of 16, originally for ethical reasons. While at university, she discovered Plant-Based Health Professionals UK and became fascinated by the extensive health benefits of a plant-based diet. Her involvement with PBHP UK began with volunteering which eventually led to her current role as a research assistant.

Her passion revolves around delving deeper into the benefits of plant-based diets and sharing the evidence with as many people as possible. Before this role, Isabelle worked as a science researcher and writer for a plant-based medical practice in the US.

Isabelle’s career aspirations lie in the field of Public Health, where she aims to promote the widespread adoption of healthy, sustainable diets and lifestyle practices, making these choices accessible to as many people as possible.

Jay Cox

Director of Videography

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Plant-based filmmaker and music producer Jay Cox rediscovered his lust for life after a cancer diagnosis. After a tough fight and with the disease in remission, he didn’t need any more reminders how short life really is, or any more encouragement to follow his passion. He changed his diet, became totally plant-based and, with new-found energy, got back on his mountain bike. He also got his camera out again and began looking for places he could make a real difference. This reinvention of himself, his life and his purpose lead him by chance to Tarifa in Spain with endurance athlete Luke Tyburski as he embarked on an insane 2,000km solo triathlon in 12 days. The result was the Ultimate Triathlon documentary, and the revelation of Jay’s formidable natural talent.

Jay has teamed up with plant-based health professionals to help achieve their mission to promote evidence based nutrition education.

Find out more about his company at fizzeekmedia.com

Dr Clare Day, PBHP podcast host

Dr Clare Day

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Clare has worked as an NHS GP in  a range of settings including community and prison healthcare, having qualified as a doctor in 2011. 

Prior to studying Graduate Medicine she studied Science Communication and Policy, joined the Civil Service and worked at HM Treasury as a Policy Advisor. 

She has been vegan for a number of years and is convinced of the benefits for long term health of eating whole food plant based. Explanations of how dietary change can help long term conditions is something she tries to put at the very centre of consultations with curious patients. She also does plant-based teaching for trainee GPs and colleagues. Like the rest of us she is learning everyday about food and health, and most importantly the barriers to change for individuals. With her podcast co-host GP Dr Daisy Lund, she hopes to bring on board more healthcare professionals and individuals to support patients in dietary change. 

Dr Daisy Lund, PBHP podcast host

Dr Daisy Lund

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Dr Daisy Lund is a practising GP with over 20 years’ experience of working in the NHS. She is a GP trainer and medical educator at Imperial College in London. 

Dr Lund has an interest in preventative medicine and holistic health and incorporates diet and lifestyle into her consultations. She has completed the Plant-Based Nutrition Certificate at the University of Winchester and is passionate about nutrition education for health care professionals. Together with a GP colleague, Dr Claire Day, she co-hosts ‘In a Nutshell’ the Plant Based Health Professionals UK podcast.

Campaigns

Dr Clare Day, PBHP podcast host

LJ Smith

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LJ is a Consultant Respiratory Physician at King’s College Hospital London with special interests in Lung Cancer, airways disease and breathlessness. She also has expertise in sustainable healthcare and holds positions as the Clinical Lead for Sustainability at King’s College Hospital, and the British Thoracic Society Trustee for Sustainability.

LJ is motivated by supporting patients to thrive rather than just survive and is passionate about the potential for plant-powered diets to dramatically reduce health inequalities. She campaigns on a number of social justice issues with MedAct and is actively involved in campaigns to end the hostile environment for migrants in healthcare, and on the intersections of climate and health with a focus on Air Quality and housing.

LJ adopted a vegan approach to life in 2017, motivated by a wish to extend the compassion she brings to her clinical practice to other aspects of life. She sees veganism as part of a commitment to compassion and equality for humans, non-human animals and the planet. Since studying the transformative impact of a whole food plant based diet for health through the University of Winchester Plant-Based nutrition course, and a Diploma in Lifestyle Medicine she has committed to bringing the evidence to her patients and the NHS more widely.

Ambassadors

Dr Alan Desmond MB BCH, FRCP

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Dr Alan Desmond is a Consultant Gastroenterologist based in Devon. He studied Medicine at University College Cork, Ireland and completed his specialist training in Cork, Dublin and Oxford. Having previously published influential work on diagnostic radiation exposure in patients with digestive disorders, he has developed an interest in the dietary management of a range of digestive disorders, particularly Crohn’s disease.

Alan takes every opportunity he gets to enjoy the great outdoors, running, biking & rowing. He adheres to, and advocates for, a whole Food plant-based diet. You can find him at www.devongutclinic.com

Dr Gemma Newman MBBCH, DRCOG, DFSRH, MRCGP

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Dr Gemma Newman has worked in medicine for 14 years and is the Senior Partner at a family medical practice. She studied at the University of Wales College of Medicine and has worked in many specialities as a doctor including Elderly Care, Endocrinology, Paediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Psychiatry, General Surgery, Urology, Vascular Surgery, Rehabilitation Medicine and General Practice. She gained additional qualifications in Gynaecology and family planning. She has a specialist interest in plant-based nutrition and gives nutrition and lifestyle advice to her patients, who have gained tremendous benefits by using the power of their plate.

As a broadcaster and writer she has been regularly featured on television, including ITV, Channel 4, Channel 5 and Sky News Sunrise. She has contributed to articles for magazines including Glamour, Zest and Good Housekeeping. Her family lead a fully plant-based lifestyle, following the extensive scientific research she has done on the health benefits associated with whole food plant-based nutrition. She is regularly invited to teach other Doctors via training programmes and conferences about the benefits of plant-based nutrition. You can get in touch via Facebook Dr Gemma Newman, or follow her on Instagram @plantpowerdoctor, or gemmanewman.com.

Dr Chidi Ngwaba

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Dr Chidi is an award-winning Lifestyle Doctor. Trained in Surgery, General Practice & Lifestyle Medicine at Cambridge, UCL and Johns Hopkins USA, his passion is to Reverse, Improve or Prevent many chronic illnesses including Heart disease, Cancer, Arthritis, Diabetes and many more, with his unique programme “Life Colours”. He is a Founding Board member of the European Society of Lifestyle Medicine. He has over 20 years of experience as a national and international Health and Motivational speaker including TED talks on Reversing Disease.

He was the medical editor and contributor to Europe’s most popular health magazine,Top Santé, and contributes to The Daily Express, The Daily Mail as well as TV and radio shows such as ITV’s “Good Morning Britain”, BBC, SKY News and is the resident Doctor on Premier Radio. He is the director and founder of a Lifestyle Medicine Clinic in London and founded two successful and award-winning healthy restaurants, “Plant”, in Soho, London to encourage healthy eating.

In 2016 he received a national award in leadership for his work in reversing disease. He currently advises the federal Government of Nigeria on health. His mission: “To bring Health, Healing, and Hope” to the UK and beyond.

Follow Dr Chidi on twitter or Instagram @DrChidiMD

Kate Strong

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Kate isn’t a stranger to pushing herself physically, mentally and emotionally. Graduating with a Double Masters in Mechanical Engineering from England and France, she worked in aerospace engineering and then moved to Australia owning and operating hospitality companies. In 2014, she became 2014 age-group World Champion in triathlon and returned to the UK, establishing herself as coach and consultant, specialising in Leadership and Sustainability. She volunteers for a local homeless charity, is a TEDx speaker, plant-powered and an investor. “I strive to be my best, not be the best. I aim for that to find my true potential.”  Find out more about Kate on her website katestrong.global

3 world records!
In November 2021, Kate finally heard back from Guinness about the status of her 3 world record attempts and it’s official: Kate broke the 1- and 12-hour world records and set a new 24-hour world record for static cycling.

What’s next for Kate?
In 2023 Kate is attempting the Limitless Challenge.The entire event will take place on British soil – removing the need for flights and dramatically reducing the overall carbon footprint of the event. Kate’s partner Kieren, will be joining the event, which will include taking two months to cycle 3,000 miles around the circumference of Great Britain, briefly stopping for Kate to attempt the Channel swim and then they will climb the 3 Peaks.

International advisory board members

Dr David Jenkins OC, MD, FRSC, FRCP, FRCPC, PHD, DSC

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Dr. David J.A. Jenkins is an University Professor, and Canada Research Chair, in the Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Medicines, a staff physician in the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, , the Director of the Clinical Nutrition and Risk Factor Modification Center, and a Scientist in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St. Michael’s Hospital. He was educated at Oxford University, obtaining his DM, DPhil and DSc. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London) and of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. He has served on committees in Canada and the United States that formulated nutritional guidelines for the treatment of diabetes and recommendations for fiber and macronutrient intake under the joint US-Canada DRI system (RDAs) of the National Academy of Sciences.

He also served as a member of Agriculture Canada’s Science Advisory Board (2004-2009) on the future direction of Canada’s agriculture and agricultural research. He has spent much time working with the food industry to develop products for the supermarket shelf and, for example, helped to initiate Loblaw’s ‘Too Good To Be True’ and most recently their popular “Blue Menu” line of products.

His research area is the use of diet in the prevention and treatment of hyperlipidemia and diabetes. He has over 300 original publications on these and related topics. His team was the first to define and explore the concept of the glycemic index of foods and demonstrate the breadth of metabolic effects of viscous soluble fiber, including blood glucose and cholesterol lowering. His group developed the cholesterol lowering concept of the dietary portfolio that has entered guidelines in many jurisdictions (e.g. CCS, Heart UK etc.).

He believes in the therapeutic value of plant based diets and that diets have to be environmentally sustainable.

Dr Kim Allan Williams, MD, MACC, MASNC, FAHA, FESC

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Kim Williams serves as the Chief of the Division of Cardiology and is the James B. Herrick Endowed Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at Rush University Medical Center. He has served as the President of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC, 2004-2005), Chairman of the Board of the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC, 2008-2010), and President of the American College of Cardiology (ACC, 2015- 2016).

Prior to coming to Rush University, Dr. Williams was chairman of the division of cardiology at Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, where he started the Urban Cardiology Initiative. This continued at Rush in Chicago, as he initiated the HEART Program (Helping Everyone Assess Risk Today) to screen churches and community groups for heart disease and stroke risk.

Dr. Williams has published numerous peer-reviewed articles, monographs, book chapters, editorials, and review articles. He has served on many committees and boards for the American Heart Association, the American Medical Association, ASNC, ACC and ABC.

Dr. Williams received his medical degree from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at Emory University and overlapping fellowships in cardiology at the University of Chicago in clinical pharmacology and nuclear medicine.

Brenda Davis RD

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Brenda Davis, registered dietitian, is a leader in her field and an internationally acclaimed speaker. She has worked as a public health nutritionist, clinical nutrition specialist, nutrition consultant and academic nutrition instructor. Brenda is the lead dietitian in a diabetes research project in Majuro, Marshall Islands. She is a featured speaker at nutrition, medical and health conferences throughout the world.

Brenda is co-author of nine award-winning, best-selling books – Becoming Vegan: Comprehensive Edition (2014), Becoming Vegan: Express Edition (2013), Becoming Vegan (2000), The New Becoming Vegetarian (2003), Becoming Vegetarian (1994, 1995), Becoming Raw (2010), the Raw Food Revolution Diet (2008), Defeating Diabetes (2003) and Dairy-free and Delicious (2001). She is also a contributing author to a tenth book, The Complete Vegetarian (2009). Her books are vegetarian/vegan nutrition classics, with over 750,000 copies in print in 8 languages. Brenda has authored and co-authored several articles for peer-reviewed medical and nutrition journals and magazines.

Brenda is a past chair of the Vegetarian Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group of the American Dietetic Association. In 2007, she was inducted into the Vegetarian Hall of Fame. Brenda lives in Kelowna British Columbia with her husband, Paul Davis. She has two grown children, Leena Markatchev and Cory Davis.

www.brendadavisrd.com