The New England Regional Collaborative for Food is Medicine

About the NERC FIM

The New England Regional Collaborative for Food is Medicine (NERC FIM) aims to bring together Food is Medicine focused groups to collaboratively address challenges in the field through joint projects, shared advocacy, and knowledge and resource dissemination. The NERC seeks to bring together highly engaged cross sector groups to leverage the knowledge and resources of our members to amplify the presence, accessibility and innovation in FIM across the New England region. Joint efforts under the Collaborative will respond to the needs and interests of members. There is no fee for membership and all participation in the collaborative is voluntary.

Participating Members

About Fresh

Adam Shyevitch, Chief Program Officer

Bi-State Primary Care

Kristen Bigelow, Senior Program Manager, Health Quality Food Access and Health Care Network Director

Jamie Rainville, Manager of Special Projects

Boston Medical Center

Olivia Thomas, Director of Nutrition Innovation and Implementation

Community Care Cooperative

Kim Prendergast, Vice President for Policy & Strategy

Annie Pham, Director of Social Health

Crystal Adams, Program Evaluation Manager

Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation (CHLPI)

Katie Garfield, Director of Whole Person Care, Clinical Instructor, Health Law and Policy Clinic

Community Servings

Jean Terranova, Senior Director of Policy and Research

Colleen Forrest, Senior Research Dietitian at Community Servings

Dartmouth Health - Hitchcock Medical Center

Chelsey Canavan, Manager of Dartmouth Health’s Center for Advancing Rural Health Equity,

Food is Medicine Institute

Dariush Mozaffarian, MD DrPH, Director

Kelseanna Hollis-Hansen, Faculty Lead

Shannon Timlin, Administrative Lead

Greater Boston Food Bank

Lauren Fiechtner, MD, MPH Senior Health and Research Advisor; Director of Nutrition at MassGeneral Hospital for Children

MaineHealth

Carrie Gordon, MD, Pediatrics

Emily Kain, Senior Program Manager

Emily M Walters, Let’s Go Program Director,

Mass General Brigham

Priscilla Wang, Associate Medical Director, Primary Care Health Equity

Anne Fox, Senior Program Manager

Emma Steinberg, Pediatric Hospitalist, Chef, Pediatric Culinary Medicine Champion

Massachusetts General Hospital Revere HealthCare Center

Jacob Mirsky, MD, Primary Care; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant CME Course Director, MGH Benson-Henry Institute for Mind Body Medicine

Project Bread

Jennifer Obadia, Senior Director of Health Care Partnerships

Tufts Medical Center

Michael Paasche-Orlow, Professor, Vice Chair

Tufts School of Medicine

Kimberly Dong, Associate Professor Public Health and Community Medicine

Tufts Medicine Integrated Network

Jenny Chiang, Senior Vice President of Community Engagement and Market Growth

UMass Chan Medical School

Kurt Hager, Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology

Matt Alcusky, Associate Professor, Division of Epidemiology

Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center

Kathleen Duffany, Assistant Professor of Public Health (Social and Behavioral Sciences)

Beth Comerford, Co-Director

Katherine LaMonaca, Assistant Director of Research and Evaluation, PRC & Community Alliance for Research and Engagement (CARE),