text: After graduating medical school in Germany, she came to the United States as a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow working in Psychiatry Research. Most of her research was focused on weight gain and weight management in association with antipsychotic treatment in Children and Adolescents. Several studies included healthy lifestyle guidance as a key component.
  Dr. Sheridan has been working at the Zucker School of Medicine for 3 years, first as a PEARLS facilitator and now as a small group facilitator since August of 2018. As part of her role, she facilitates small groups such as physical diagnosis, clinical skills, PEARLS, and communications. Furthermore, she is functioning as a family head for the current MS1, MS2, and MS3 students. Dr. Sheridan has a strong interest in lifestyle medicine, specifically nutrition education of medical students. Therefore, joining the team of clinical faculty that was engaged in integrating nutrition content into the curriculum was very important to her. Together with a few other faculty members she created a nutrition project in the academic year 2018-2019, to analyze the impact of the nutrition session on the second-year medical students’ knowledge and level of comfort in talking to patients about nutrition. Based on faculty and student feedback, the session was completely revised for the academic year 2019/2020, and an additional nutrition session was added to the curriculum.
  Thinking more nutrition education was needed during student’s medical education, Dr. Sheridan enthusiastically advocated for bringing the Health Meets Food Culinary Medicine Curriculum to the Zucker School of Medicine in 2019, and has been trying to broaden the use of the Curriculum across all years of medical school since receiving training for Culinary Medicine in March of 2020.
  Professor of Science Education, Occupational Medicine, Epidemiology and Prevention, and Family Medicine