All current meetings are via Zoom
The Plant-Based Nutrition Organization of WI ("PBNOW") holds monthly meetings.
The mission of our monthly meetings is to educate, empower and support.
At each meeting, a national plant-based nutrition expert speaks to us live via Zoom, followed by a question and answer session.
Hope you can join us!
UPCOMING MEETING DATES LISTED BELOW:
NOV 14 ~ Dr Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD FACS
NOVEMBER SPEAKER (LIVE VIA SKYPE): Dr Caldwell Esselstyn Jr MD FACS
Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD, received his B.A. from Yale University and his M.D. from Western Reserve University. In 1956, pulling the No. 6 oar as a member of the victorious United States rowing team, he was awarded a gold medal at the Olympic Games. He was trained as a surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic and at St. George’s Hospital in London. In 1968, as an Army surgeon in Vietnam, he was awarded the Bronze Star.
Dr. Esselstyn has been associated with the Cleveland Clinic since 1968. During that time, he has served as President of the Staff and as a member of the Board of Governors. He chaired the Clinic’s Breast Cancer Task Force and headed its Section of Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
In 1991, Dr. Esselstyn served as President of the American Association of Endocrine Surgeons, That same year he organized the first National Conference on the Elimination of Coronary Artery Disease, which was held in Tucson, Arizona. In 1997, he chaired a follow-up conference, the Summit on Cholesterol and Coronary Disease, which brought together more than 500 physicians and health-care workers in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In April, 2005, Dr. Esselstyn became the first recipient of the Benjamin Spock Award for Compassion in Medicine. He received the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Cleveland Clinic Alumni Association in 2009. In September 2010, he received the Greater Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame Award. Dr. Esselstyn received the 2013 Deerfield Academy Alumni Association Heritage Award In Recognition of Outstanding Achievement & Service, and the 2013 Yale University George H.W. Bush ’48 Lifetime of Leadership Award. Dr. Esselstyn has also received the 2015 Plantrician Project Luminary Award, the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine 2016 Distinguished Alumni Award, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award.
His scientific publications number over 150, “The Best Doctors in America” 1994-1995 published by Woodward and White cites Dr. Esselstyn’s surgical expertise in the categories of endocrine and breast disease. In 1995 he published his bench mark long-term nutritional research arresting and reversing coronary artery disease in severely ill patients. That same study was updated at 12 years and reviewed beyond twenty years in his book, Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, making it one of the longest longitudinal studies of its type. In July of 2014 he reported the experience of 198 participants seriously ill with cardiovascular disease. During 3.7 years of follow up of the 89% adherent to the program, 99.4% avoided further major cardiac events.
Dr. Esselstyn and his wife, Ann Crile Esselstyn, have followed a plant-based diet since 1984. Dr. Esselstyn presently directs the cardiovascular prevention and reversal program at The Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute.
The Esselstyns have four children and ten grandchildren.
PBNOW APRIL 11 MEETING
APRIL SPEAKER (LIVE VIA SKYPE): DR STEVEN LOME DO RPVI RVT
Dr. Steven Lome is a cardiologist at Rush-Copley in Aurora, IL focusing on preventing and reversing heart disease with plant based nutrition and other lifestyle changes.
He is the founder/author of HeartStrong.com, a free website to teach people the power of plant based diets and lifestyle changes to prevent and reverse chronic diseases.
Read Dr. Lome’s Forks Over Knives article detailing how he fell into two traps: The standard American Diet (SAD) and practicing standard western medicine, ignoring diet and lifestyle. He successfully lost 100 pounds, making many mistakes along the way. He now has a strong commitment to helping others overcome their unhealthy lifestyle habits, having seen the power of lifestyle medicine personally and within his family.
Hear his powerful story straight from Dr. Lome during this interview on the Ian Cramer Podcast.
Dr. Lome holds board certifications in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Cardiac CT, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography and Vascular Medicine. He is a registered vascular technologist (R.V.T.) and a registered physicain in vascular interpretation (R.P.V.I.).
As a member of the Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine, Dr. Lome has stood along slide Dr. Neal Barnard helping to change legisltation and policies to improve nutrition in America.
He is the founder of the Chicagoland Plant Based Nutrition Movement and continues to show a passion for fighting chronic diseases with plants.
PBNOW MAR. 14 MEETING
MARCH SPEAKER (LIVE VIA SKYPE): SUSAN LEVIN MS RD
Susan Levin, MS, RD, is director of nutrition education at the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting preventive medicine. Ms. Levin researches and writes about the connection between plant-based diets and a reduced risk of chronic diseases, including cancer, diabetes, and heart disease.
PBNOW FEB 14 MEETING
FEBRUARY SPEAKER (LIVE VIA SKYPE): PAM POPPER PHD ND
Pam Popper is the founder and President of Wellness Forum Health. The company offers educational programs to both consumers and providers that facilitate informed medical decision-making, diet and lifestyle intervention, and improved long-term health outcomes.
Pam serves on the Physician’s Steering Committee and the President’s Board for the Physicians’ Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington D.C. Pam was one of the health care professionals involved in the famed Sacramento Food Bank Project, in which economically disadvantaged people were shown how to reverse their diseases and eliminate medications with diet.
Pam served as part of Dr. T. Colin Campbell’s teaching team at eCornell. She has been featured in many widely distributed documentaries, including Processed People and Making a Killing and Forks Over Knives, which played in major theaters throughout North America in 2011. She is one of the co-authors of the companion book which was on the New York Times bestseller list for 66 weeks. Her most recent films are Food Choices and The Yoyo Effect. Her most recent book is: Food Over Medicine: The Conversation That Can Save Your Life.
PBNOW JAN. 10 MEETING
JANUARY SPEAKER (LIVE VIA SKYPE): SHERRY SHRALLOW
A Plant Based diet saved Sherry’s life.
A recently retired psychotherapist and author of Staying Alive: Healing from Heart Disease - A Survivor's Story , Sherry holds a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition from the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutritional Studies through e-Cornell University.
She is a Director of the Illinois based Plant Based Nutrition movement (founded by our November 2018 speaker Dr Steven Lome).
Sherry will tell us:
* Her remarkable personal health story
* How plant based nutrition saved her life
* How to interact with family, friendsand colleagues who are curiuos, skeptical, derisive or in need of a plant based lifestyle
She will follow with Q&A
PBNOW DEC. 13 MEETING
DECEMBER SPEAKER (LIVE VIA SKYPE): DR. ANDREW FREEMAN
Dr. Freeman is a cardiologist at National Jewish Health. Dr. Freeman combines both traditional Western medicine with a holistic approach on overall wellness and disease prevention through a combination of advanced cardiology diagnostics and lifestyle medicine in the form of a whole foods plant-based diet (vegan diet), regular exercise, mindfulness and support. He has been often nicknamed “The Vegan Cardiologist,” and his approach, which integrates the latest evidenced-based medicine and lifestyle medicine, achieves excellent results for his patients.
PBNOW OCT 11 MEETING
OCTOBER SPEAKER:
DR JOSHUA LIBERMAN
Dr. Liberman earned his degree in medicine from Boston University in 2000, and completed a cardiovascular fellowship at Loyola University Medical Center.
He is board certified in cardiology and in critical care medicine.
He has a particular interest in preventive cardiology with advanced training in cholesterol management, hypertension and cardiac imaging.
PBNOW AUGUST 9 MEETING
OUR AUGUST SPEAKER:
DR. JOEL KAHN: Cardiologist, Summa Cum Laude graduate of the University of Michigan School of Medicine, Clinical Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University, Founder of the Kahn Center for Cardiac Longevity in Michigan, author of “The Plant-Based Solution”
PBNOW JULY 12 MEETING
AUGUST SPEAKER (LIVE VIA SKYPE):
DR MICHAEL KLAPER
Physician, Plant Based Nutrition Lifestyle pioneer, author.
PBNOW JUNE 14 MEETING
OUR JUNE SPEAKER:
DR. MICHELLE MCMACKEN: Director of Bellevue Hospital Weight Management Clinic, Yale honors graduate, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons graduate, Asst Professor NYU School of Medicine
More Information about Dr. Kim Williams:
The Rules of Healthy Eating Decoded By Dr. Michelle McMacken / One Green Planet
PBNOW MAY 10 MEETING
OUR MAY SPEAKER:
Dr. Kim Williams / Chief of Cardiology, Rush University Hospitals, Chicago / Past President of the American College of Cardiology / Professor Rush University Medical School
More Information about Dr. Kim Williams:
The President of the American College of Cardiology Prescribes Vegan Diets / Forks Over Knives
We will also have Angelic Bakehouse sampling some of their delicious plant-based products.
Hope to see you there!