Founder & Director of BLUM Center for Health

SUSAN BLUM (2018)

FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF BLUM CENTER FOR HEALTH - Preventive Medicine and Chronic Disease Specialist

WEforum Health and Wellness Conference 2018

DR. SUSAN BLUM – FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF BLUM CENTER FOR HEALTH; Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Preventive Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai

 

Using Food as Medicine to Fight Inflammation

Wednesday, November 14 11:30-12:30 AM – SPEAKER SERIES (LECTURE HALL)

There is a lot of confusion about what it means to eat an anti-inflammatory diet.  In this presentation, Dr. Susan Blum will review and simplify the research, and offer simple guidelines that you can start using right away to choose food that reduces inflammation, supports good gut health, enhances detoxification and treats inflammatory conditions like arthritis.

 

Keynote Address: The Food-Immune Connection

Wednesday, November 14 12:30-2:00 PM – KEYNOTE LUNCHEON (BALLROOM)

The food you eat plays a critical role in helping your immune system stay balanced and healthy. It does this by providing nutrients that directly support immune cells, and indirectly by influencing your gut microbiome. In this presentation, Dr. Susan Blum and Chef David Bouley will explore the role of antioxidants, fiber, and foods that are fermented or cultured, in promoting optimal immune and gut function. Chef Bouley will also share how he uses ingredients to assemble a recipe that bring the power of function to every dish he creates.

 


Dr. Blum, an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, has been treating, healing and preventing chronic diseases for nearly two decades. A Preventive Medicine and Chronic Disease Specialist, Dr. Blum is the Founder and Director of Blum Center for Health in Rye Brook, N.Y., where she leads a multi-specialty team of physicians, nurse practitioners, nutritionists and health coaches, all providing cutting edge Functional and Integrative Medicine services.

In her first best-selling book, The Immune System Recovery Plan (Scribner; 2013), Dr. Blum offers her four-step program, which she has used to help thousands of patients recover from autoimmune and immune-related conditions without medication. Dr. Blum’s second book, Healing Arthritis (Scribner; 2017) offers a ground-breaking approach to helping arthritis sufferers reverse and even heal this condition.

Dr. Blum is Board Certified in Preventive Medicine, Certified in Functional Medicine, and in Integrative and Holistic Medicine. She is a member of the Medical Advisory Board for The Dr. Oz Show, the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, and is Senior Teaching Faculty with the Center for Mind-Body Medicine in Washington, D.C. and teaches throughout the world in their training programs. She is also on the Board of Directors for the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s True Health Initiative.

Dr. Blum approaches medicine—and her life—from a whole-body perspective, incorporating all facets of wellness into every aspect. She begins each day with a 20-minute meditation, a green smoothie made from the contents of her garden and a walk on her country road with her dog, Trixie. She lives in Armonk, N.Y. with her husband and has three grown sons.