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Nisha Patel MD, MS is a practicing board-certified internal medicine and obesity medicine physician in San Francisco. She is the Director of the NAFLD Weight Management Program within the Advanced Organ Therapies department at CPMC. She is also a practicing transplant hospitalist. Dr. Patel completed medical school at the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and Internal Medicine residency at the University of California in San Diego.
Dr. Patel is passionate about empowering her patients and others with the knowledge and tools to make practical, sustainable and life-long healthful eating habits. She has given several invited talks and live cooking demos to her physician colleagues, medical trainees and the general public on the importance of a healthy lifestyle as the foundation of healthcare. She readily integrates culinary medicine into the day to day care of her patients. She is passionate about improving cardiometabolic health outcomes and takes a special interest in advanced clinical lipidology. Dr. Patel maintains an active social media presence on Instagram @DrPlantel and on her Twitter account.
