game changers

The project includes footage of medical students learning culinary medicine and growing vegetable gardens, a hospital and a doctor using farms to promote healthy behaviors, a cardiologist walking with patients, a lifestyle medicine physician food shopping with her patient, scientists in research labs, as well as the uniting of patients, medical students, and doctors who walk and run races together to promote exercise.

We are filming the efforts of those who are already implementing initiatives for change, and interviewing experts who are pioneers in the discipline. This will include leaders like Dr. Dean Ornish of the University of California, San Francisco, Dr. David Katz of of the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center at Griffin Hospital,  Dr. Neal Barnard of The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington D.C., Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn, formerly a surgeon at the Cleveland clinic and author of the NY times best seller Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease, Dr. Elizabeth Frates and Dr. Edward Phillips at The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Dr. David Sabgir of "Walk with a Doc" program, and Dr. Jennifer Trilk at University of South Carolina Medical School in Greenville, where they have already integrated a lifestyle medicine core curriculum. code blue explores the question of how to reshape the current practice of medicine in order to empower both physicians and patients to take control of their personal health outcomes by prioritizing prevention.