Helen K Delichatsios

HELEN DELICHATSIOS, MD, SM, DipABLM, Chef, is a clinician-educator at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). She has an active Primary Care practice, teaches students and residents, and mentors junior faculty. She develops educational tools on nutrition for patients, trainees, and peers. Her research interests and publications concern effective nutrition and obesity counseling methods in outpatient practice. Dr. Delichatsios started Shared Medical Appointments (SMAs), aka Medical Group Visits, in her office for patients with metabolic disorders, with an emphasis on self-management and teaching through hands-on cooking instruction. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she transitioned her SMAs to a virtual platform and ran Virtual Group Visits from her home kitchen, including Culinary Medicine instruction. Dr. Delichatsios is a founding and integral member of the Healthy Lifestyle Program (HLP) at MGH – the biggest Lifestyle Medicine program in the United States. She leads the Nutrition and Culinary Medicine initiatives, including piloting Hybrid (in person and Zoom) Virtual Group Visits and bringing patients in person to the MGH Revere Teaching Kitchen for hands-on Culinary Medicine Instruction.

At Harvard Medical School (HMS), Helen directed the Preventive Medicine and Nutrition course in the early 2000s and she led transitions to subsequent iterations of nutrition courses as the HMS curriculum evolved. In the Division of Nutrition at HMS, she strives to increase nutrition and obesity education in all four years of medical school and graduate medical education. Helen directs the Culinary Medicine and Nutrition elective at HMS, which started in 2024. Helen runs faculty development sessions on Nutrition, Culinary Medicine, Group Medical Visits and health professional self-health including Cooking with Colleagues sessions for her peers.

A graduate of Cornell University Medical College, Helen completed her Internal Medicine residency at Cornell New York Hospital. She earned a Master of Science in Epidemiology at the Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Helen completed her Chef education at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts.