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Dr. La Puma is a popular keynote speaker, and has given over 400 lectures to professional groups and 300 lectures as a keynote speaker. He has also been a consultant and spokesperson for companies such as CIGNA, Caremark and Kraft. He has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, The 700 Club, CNN, NPR and on NBC, CBS, ABC, FOX and PBS outlets nationwide. The New England Journal of Medicine, the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times have published his work. USA Today, Prevention, Reader's Digest, Parade and Newsweek have featured his work as well. RealAge has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The View, The Dr. Oz Files and hundreds of other TV shows.

Dr. La Puma is a New York Times best-selling author. His first general audience book, with Michael Roizen MD, became a New York Times best-seller: The RealAge Diet: Make Yourself Younger with What You Eat. His first cookbook, also with Dr. Roizen, became an Amazon #1 Cookbook: Cooking the RealAge Way: Turn Back Your Biological Clock. Dr. La Puma developed recipes for Dr. Oz and Roizen's New York Times best-seller You the Owner's Manual. In his new book, also a New York Times best-seller, ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine, Dr. La Puma offers restaurant quality flavor food that works like medicine, for 40 different conditions...and he explains why and how, with fun and ease.

Formerly a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, Professor of Nutrition at Kendall College's School of Culinary Arts and cook at James Beard-award winning Chef Rick Bayless' Topolobampo in Chicago, Dr. La Puma also graduated from the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago (now a Cordon Bleu school) in Professional Cooking and taught the first Nutrition and Cooking Course for Medical Students in the U.S., at SUNY.

He performed his residency in internal medicine at West Los Angeles Veterans Administration Medical Center and UCLA, and completed the first postgraduate fellowship in general internal medicine and clinical medical ethics in the U.S., at the University of Chicago. Dr. La Puma is the author or co-author of over 50 peer-reviewed scientific papers, 150 other contributions to the medical literature and 3 medical books, including a CME book. Founding Editor of Alternative Medicine Alert, the leading evidence-based newsletter for clinicians on dietary supplements and integrative approaches, Dr. La Puma is a recognized expert in CME, informed consent and wellness practices, and has testified as an expert in legal cases.

Repeatedly named "One of America's Top Physicians" by the Consumers' Research Council, and called a "Secret Weapon" by The Wall Street Journal, Dr. La Puma was honored with the National Association of Medical Communicators 2007 "Award of Excellence". He is based in Santa Barbara, California. Contact Dr. La Puma.