Angie Neison, MD CCMS Dip ABLM

Planetary Culinary Family & Lifestyle Medicine Physician

Dr. Angie Neison is a Board-certified Family, Culinary and Lifestyle Medicine Physician who has always been interested in health from a preventive medicine perspective. She attended medical school at UT Houston Health Sciences Center now called McGovern medical school. She went to residency at Wake Forest in North Carolina and started at SRS in 2011. She is also board certified in Culinary Medicine through Health meets Food’s comprehensive curriculum and is a certified diplomate of the American Board Lifestyle Medicine.
She believes food is medicine, and empowers your evidenced-based wellness journey starting with your next meal.
Over the last 5 years, Dr. Neison has become active at Sharp Healthcare to promote the culture of wellness amongst her colleagues, one where the focus is on human and planetary health with the “see one, do one, teach one” model of learning. She advocated, and implemented a sustainable plant-forward menu starting at Sharp Rees-Stealy Physician meetings, that was eventually adopted at all four Sharp Healthcare Hospitals June 2020. She’s currently working with the Sharp Healthcare Hospital food and nutrition leaders to lay a strong foundation in food-as-medicine approaches as a way to advocate for health equity related to social determinants of health.
Dr. Neison is on San Diego’s Public Health Advisory Council for Climate Action where she is connecting the dots between climate health, human health and health equity to address local policy changes. She is founder and Co-Chair of the Climate and Planetary Health committee in her organization and is continually helping connect the dots between public health and solutions for the climate crisis. Her recent advocacy led the first health care system in San Diego to invest in 100% renewable energy for all their hospitals and clinics.
She is a national CME speaker for primary care physicians, Latinos in medicine and her colleagues in San Diego.She teaches residents, physicians, and health care staff so that preventative medicine opportunities in healthcare through food and planetary health are amplified.
She maintains an active presence on her social media page @Flavors4wellnessMD where she inspires the interconnectivity between food, wellness, community, human and planetary health.
She is the first and only Doctora in her family but hopes to inspire more Latinx people into medicine.