Scaling Food As Medicine, Redesigning the Way We Eat

Featured Guests

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  Dana Thomas Managing Director

  Dana Thomas, JD, is managing director, Food is Medicine with the Rockefeller Foundation and is a healthcare law and policy professional with diverse experience in the public and private sectors. She joined Rockefeller Foundation from a Medicaid-focused startup where she led Growth Partnerships. She spent almost a decade with Elevance Health, a multi-state national health insurer, where she worked in various roles supporting the Medicaid line of business. She has also held roles in nonprofit organizations and in the U.S. Congress where she worked on policies to expand healthcare access for underserved populations and communities. She holds a law degree and a certificate in health policy from The George Washington University.
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  Anna Rosales RD

  
  Anna Rosales, is IFT’s senior director of government affairs and nutrition.

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  Michiel Bakker President of the Culinary Institute of America

  Michiel Bakker is president of the Culinary Institute of America and former head of Google’s Global Workplace Programs, including Food at Google. Bakker delivered the opening keynote, “Food as Experience Design: Applications in F&B Product Development,” at IFT FIRST in July 2025.