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Dr. Siri Chand Khalsa MD MS
Keynotes · Culinary Medicine · Physician Wellbeing
Ancient wisdom. Modern evidence.
One talk.
Keynotes and teaching kitchens that bring food, rhythm, and presence back into clinical care. Your audience leaves with something they can use that same night.
30+
Years of Study + medicine
4
Active board certifications
20
Years teaching culinary medicine
2
Years full-time Ayurvedic training
Trusted by academic medicine.
Signature Keynotes & Workshops
The Talks
01
The Kitchen Clinic
Culinary medicine as clinical practice. Food becomes the first prescription, taught the way she taught 102 Stanford providers in the PLANT study: hands on, evidence based, and delicious.
As taught at Stanford Medicine, IM4US, and the University of Arizona
Audiences leave with
– A disease-specific plate framework
– The sheet-pan prescription
– Grocery-store teaching moves
– The sheet-pan prescription
– Grocery-store teaching moves
Format
Keynote, cooking demo, or series · in person and virtual
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02
Rhythm Is Medicine
Meal timing, digestion, sleep, and the daily rhythms that quietly shape chronic disease. Ancient pattern, modern evidence, practical change.
Delivered as CME for primary care clinicians at Cleveland Clinic
Audiences leave with
– A chrononutrition framework for visits
– Daily-rhythm practices patients keep
– A way to talk about timing, not just food
– Daily-rhythm practices patients keep
– A way to talk about timing, not just food
Format
45 to 75 min keynote or grand rounds · CME objectives on request
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03
An Experiential Journey Through the Five Senses
An introduction to Ayurvedic wisdom for clinicians, taught through the senses. Awakening inner knowing for the care of self and others.
As presented at Stanford Pediatric Integrative Medicine and Yale Smilow Cancer Center
Audiences leave with
– A five-senses self-nourishment practice
– Tools for presence at the bedside
– A gentle on-ramp to whole-person care
– Tools for presence at the bedside
– A gentle on-ramp to whole-person care
Format
Keynote, workshop, or wellness series · in person and virtual
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04
Ayurveda: The Ultimate Lifestyle Medicine
Five thousand years of personalized lifestyle medicine, brought into modern clinical practice. How constitution, season, and daily routine become tools your clinicians can actually use.
Presented at NAMA national conferences; curriculum taught at UC Irvine’s integrative medicine fellowship
Audiences leave with
– A personalized daily-routine framework
– Seasonal eating principles for any clinic
– Where to begin with patients on Monday
– Seasonal eating principles for any clinic
– Where to begin with patients on Monday
Format
Keynote or two-hour deep dive · in person and virtual · CME objectives on request
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Mayo Clinic trained · On faculty since 2006
Talks for the future of medicine, embracing our humanity and emerging science that are
inviting and uncommon.
Clinical depth from three decades of practice. The ease of someone who has been in a room of questions and not backed down. Every session is customized to your audience.
Meet Dr. Siri Chand
About
Siri Chand Khalsa, MD, MS is a Mayo Clinic trained internist, board certified in Internal Medicine, Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Lifestyle Medicine, and Integrative Medicine.
For two decades she has taught nutrition and culinary medicine with the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. She now serves on faculty at UC Irvine’s Susan Samueli Integrative Health Institute, where she developed the fellowship’s Ayurveda curriculum. Her chapter on pediatric culinary medicine appears in the first reference text on the subject, from Elsevier.
She is the founder of Vishuddha, a professional learning community for women physicians. She still cooks nearly every day. The stage never drifts far from the kitchen.
102
Stanford providers cooked with
her in the PLANT study
her in the PLANT study
5
part Kitchen Clinic series for Stanford Rheumatology
20+
episodes of the Routes of Healing podcast
“Her authenticity and ability to expand space with warmth and honesty changed my life. She teaches meaningful connection and mindful living in a way that is accessible to everyone.”
Physician · Vishuddha Community
Get to know her better
Pop Quiz
My favorite classroom is
the grocery store
The prescription I love writing most
a sheet-pan dinner
Most people don’t know that I
trained for two years with Dr. Vasant Lad, in New Mexico and India
Every talk begins with
a long exhale breath
For event planners
The Planner Kit
Everything your committee asks for, in one place.
1.
Speaker one-sheet
2.
Bio, photos & A/V notes
3.
Intro script, ready to read
45 to 75 minutes
keynote, grand rounds, or workshop (3+hours)
Customized
to your clinicians and community
In person & virtual
experienced on both stages
CME eligible
objectives on request
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