CalFIMC Advisors

The California Food is Medicine Coalition (CalFIMC) has a Medical Advisory Council to help ensure medically tailored meal providers - like Ceres - are serving the best meals possible, in line with today’s current nutrition research and medical guidelines.

Current Advisors

  • Anna Chodos MD., MPH.
    Division of Geriatrics at Zuckerberg San Francisco General

  • Chris Esguerra, MD.
    Chris Esguerra Consulting

  • Jim Glauber MD.
    Chief Medical Officer, San Francisco Health Plan

  • Tanvir Hussain, MD.
    Cardiologist, Los Angeles

  • Michelle Kuppich RDN.
    Senior Manager, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics

  • We-An Lee, MD.
    Department of Health Services, Los Angeles County

  • Rishi Manchanda, MD.
    President, HealthBegins

  • Preston Maring, MD.
    retired from Kaiser Permanente

  • Rita Nguyen, MD.
    Assistant Health Officer, Chronic Disease Physician Specialist, Population Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health

  • Ronit Ridberg, PhD., MS.
    Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Healthcare Policy and Research, School of Nursing, University of California, Davis

  • James Scheiberl, MD.
    Chief of Medicine, Santa Rosa, Kaiser Permanente

  • Sheri Weiser, MD., MPH.
    Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of HIV, ID and Global Medicine, UC San Francisco