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.
 

Dr. Rikin Patel is a pediatrician and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Toronto. He completed his pediatric residency at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Prior to that he completed a Masters in Health Policy Planning and Finance from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He currently works for Scarborough Health Network and is a founding member of Markham Kids Clinic where he actively discusses plant-based nutrition interventions for children and teenagers. He recently completed the Plant Based Certificate program through the T Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies at Cornell University. He recently spoke as a panel member at the KW Veg Fest focusing on plant based nutrition for a pediatric population.
Dr. Patel is passionate about promoting a culture of wellness and resilience within physician and trainee communities through medical improv, meditation and plant-based nutrition. Dr. Patel initially switched to a plant-based diet to deepen his yoga and meditation practice and has been reaping the benefits of this lifestyle transformation for the last 15 years. In addition to practicing yoga, Dr. Patel is a Shoalin Kung Fu instructor and has been pracitcing for over 30 years. 

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.

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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.