Dan Chen

Daniel Chen, MD, DipABLM is double board-certified in Internal Medicine and Lifestyle Medicine. He is loving the security he has found in rediscovering the beauty of being cherished by Jesus and the excitement found in following after God's heart. He is a primary care clinician practicing in Spanish and English at Esperanza Health Center in North Philadelphia. Dr. Chen trained at Jefferson Medical College (now Sidney Kimmel) and completed his internship and residency at Temple University Hospital. A second-generation Chinese-American, born and raised in Southern California, he has found immense joy in connecting what he does in his own kitchen to everyone around him through a delicious, nutritious, plant-based, and culturally connected approach to food. Inspired by his own health journey as a heart attack and cancer survivor, he leads a continually expanding initiative for which he was awarded the Pennsylvania Association of Community Health Centers Apex award for Innovation in 2024 implementing a multi-disciplinary, interactive model using food, movement, and behavioral health to support positive lifestyle changes with patients and work towards health justice. He has been an invited speaker, podcast guest, and workshop presenter and contributes as part of the Medical Advisory Board at the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies. He is also co-chair of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine’s Health Equity Achieved through Lifestyle Medicine (HEAL) Initiative. He and his wife, Charlene, also a physician, are living out the adventure of raising their two school-aged children authentic followers of Jesus, curious, courageous, and plant-strong.

You can follow his work on instagram: http://www.instagram.com/lmwithdanchen

Coming soon! Empowered Kitchen: https://publishizer.com/empowered-kitchen/

American College of Lifestyle Medicine https://lifestylemedicine.org/