NUTRITION & LIFESTYLE MEDICINE CONFERENCES
Zero commercial funding!
See Why P-POD? 18 conferences done! New events, flexible attendance options coming Sept. 14 & 26-28, & Oct. 5, 2025!
Hurricane Helene closed our nonprofit's Asheville site, so we moved. All year-end donations are now TRIPLE-matched!
Daphne Bascom, MD PhD
Lead Health Coach, The Vegan Gym
Principal Health Practice and Systems Engineer, Mitre Corporation
Secretary, HEAL Initiative (Health Equity Achieved through Lifestyle), American College of Lifestyle Medicine
Certified as a Weight Management Specialist, Group Exercise Instructor and Corporate Wellness Specialist
Former Vice President of Population Health, St. Luke’s Health System, Kansas City MO
Former Interim National Health Officer, YMCA of the USA
Former Senior Vice President of Community Integrated Health and Healthy Living, YMCA of Greater Kansas City
Certified Food for Life Instructor, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Awarded the Peter Beaconsfield Prize in Physiological Sciences while a Marshall Scholar in the Laboratory of Physiology at Oxford University
Former competitive professional IFBB bodybuilder
Completed an Otolaryngology Residency and a Fellowship in Microvascular and Reconstructive Surgery of the Head and Neck
An extended verbal bio will be posted here at some later date.