Traci Stevenson, D.O. is an assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health at Touro University California, College of Osteopathic Medicine. She is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine, holds a Certified Culinary Medical Specialist Certification and is an Institute of Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner. She has co-led efforts to successfully integrate a culinary nutrition program into the Osteopathic Medical Curriculum at Touro University as well as develop a Structural Competency undergraduate medical educational curriculum focusing on the effect of structural and social determinants on health outcomes. This includes collaboration with community members with ‘lived experiences’ to improve physician understanding, advocacy and the ability to address social determinants of health as part of effective medical care.

 

Dr. Stevenson has a special interest in chronic disease prevention, utilizing ‘food as medicine’ and relationships to health equity. She works with Touro students on the Street Medicine team, is a board member of the California Medical Leadership Forum for Public Health/Preventive Medicine and serves on TU-COM’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) committee.