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Shravan Kakani

Dr. Sravan Kakani is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at University of Vermont Health, board-certified psychiatrist exploring culinary medicine and its integration with mental health.

Jun 15, 2026

BlackHOST
17:24
So I guess it's a good place to transition and tell me more about the specifics of your program, of your food and mood program and how you bring all of those components together.
17:35
So our program called Food and Mood is very interdisciplinary.
17:41
And I think that's important because I'm a psychiatrist and traditionally psychiatry is really one-on-one.
17:49
But if you think about it, a lot of people who are coming to a psychiatrist may be very depressed, may be very anxious, might be very hard to motivate.
17:58
themselves on their own.
17:59
So I think it's helpful to be in a group setting where you can receive kind of the momentum and the energy of people around you who are also trying to figure things out.
18:11
So the different disciplines represented are culinary arts with our chef, Leah Pryor, horticultural therapy with our garden educator, Rachel Boyers, and dietetics with our registered dietitian, Melissa Cowby.

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BlackHOST
26:33
Is there anything else that we didn't touch on? Any questions I didn't ask that you wanted to get to today?

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