Ontario

Shammi is a psychiatrist, with additional certifications in addiction medicine and lifestyle medicine. He is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and works at Ontario Shores, a university of Toronto affiliated teaching hospital. In addition, he has a part-time affiliation with Markham Stouffville Hospital. He is as an Assistant Professor in the faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto.  Shammi has expertise in psychopharmacology and the management of psychotic disorders.  He has an interest in wellness and health, and the promotion of lifestyle change as a means to achieving optimal health across medical disorders.  He is a clinician educator and is engaged in clinical work, teaching, and health promotion. Besides his hospital-based practice, Shammi offers lifestyle medicine virtual care remotely by telephone and/or video through Aroga Lifestyle Medicine, on a part-time basis.  Aroga is based in Victoria, British Columbia and is the largest provider of Lifestyle Medicine services in Canada, currently offering services to individuals in the Canadian provinces of British Columbia, Ontario and Alberta.  Shammi has followed a plant-based whole food diet for over 20 years.  He has affiliations with Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), American College of Lifestyle Medicine (ACLM), Plant-Based Health Professionals UK (PBHP), and Australasian Society of Lifestyle Medicine (ASLM), and Plant-Based Canada (PBC), besides The Plantrician Project Plant-based Docs.
 

I’m a consultant pediatrician and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. I completed my pediatric residency at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Prior to medical school I completed a Masters in Health Policy Planning and Finance from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Currently I work for the Scarborough Health Network and a founding member of Markham Kids Clinic. I recently completed the Plant Based Certificate program through the T Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies at Cornell University. I recently spoke as a panel member at the KW Veg Fest focusing on plant based nutrition for a pediatric population (link found below). I’m passionate about promoting a culture of wellness and resilience within physician and trainee communities through medical improv, meditation and plant-based nutrition.  My plant based journey started as a child from my mom, a life long vegetarian who impressed upon me the principles of plant based eating. It wasn’t until sixteen years ago though I wholeheartedly adopted a plant-based diet to improve my meditation practice and live an eco-friendly lifestyle. After years of trial, error and refinement I have been reaping the many physical, mental and spiritual benefits of this lifestyle transformation. As a result, I have developed an approach that I have been sharing with children and families to embody a family centred approach. In the spirit of prevention as an approach for children, I advocate to help reduce the risk of heart disease, cancer, obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and fewer asthma flares all through a plant based diet. Having worked with numerous families I am passionate and confident in giving children and their families the best fuel for their wellbeing to maximize their potential.

Medical Director at the Health for Life Medical Centre in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.  We provide a team-based Lifestyle Medicine approach to assist our clients to achieve Optimal health.

I am a RD who partners with you in achieving your weight-loss, wellness and nutrition goals. Specializing in intermittent fasting and plant-based diets.

Reverse & prevent heart disease, diabetes, infertility, arthritis, many types of cancer, and other chronic illnesses. www.drjudithfiore@gmail.com

Dr. Maria E. Theodorou, MD PhD FRCPC is a General Internist with interests in Critical Care and Lifestyle Medicine. She is currently practicing both Internal Medicine and Critical Care at Quinte Health Care Corporation in Belleville, Ontario, Canada, and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine at Queen’s University. Dr. Theodorou has a long standing interest in nutrition and lifestyle factors as determinants of health, and offers counselling to her patients in this regards. After completing her PhD in plant biochemistry at Queen’s University, and post-doctoral fellowship in Plant Sciences at the University of Oxford, she completed medical school at the University of Toronto, and her Residency/Fellowship in General Internal Medicine at Queen’s University. She resides in beautiful Kingston, Ontario, Canada, where she enjoys running, cycling, hiking, tennis and spending time with family and friends.