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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. 

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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.