Dr. Rosane Oliveira is the founder, president and CEO of the Plant-Based Life Foundation, a nonprofit organization with a mission to help individuals develop key health-promoting habits on their journey towards health and well-being. Between 2011-2021, Dr. Rosane Oliveira served as the Founding Director of the first University of California Davis Integrative Medicine Program, where she created a 10-week Lifestyle Medicine elective, published a #1 Amazon bestseller cookbook, and ran an annual online challenge that gave nearly 150,000 individuals across 60 countries the chance to try out plant-based eating.
Dr. Oliveira holds an appointment as Visiting Clinical Faculty in Public Health Sciences at the University of California Davis where she teaches lifestyle medicine to first- and second-year medical students. She is also an instructor at Stanford Continuing Studies program where she teaches an evidence-based course on plant-based nutrition. At the Plant-Based Life Foundation, Dr. Oliveira teaches its signature lifestyle behavioral change program, Life Lab 360TM. The program is designed to take a comprehensive, sustainable, and evidence-based approach to health and weight loss that includes the neuroscience of behavioral change and emotional regulation, as well as the science of plant-based nutrition, exercise, sleep, and mindfulness and meditation. Dr. Oliveira has over 25 years of scientific experience as a molecular geneticist and has done studies in fields ranging from molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases, microorganism resistance to drugs, cancer initiation and progression, and diet-driven gene expression changes in the development of metabolic diseases. She completed her graduate studies in Brazil and did her postdoctoral training in immunogenetics and functional genomics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign She is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has lived in the US since 2003.
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