Terry Shintani, MD, JD, MPH received his master’s degree in nutrition at Harvard University and both his medical degree and his law degree at the University of Hawaii. He is board certified in preventive medicine. He currently serves as the President of the Hawaii Health Foundation and as the Associate Chair of the Department of Complementary and Alternative Medicine at the University of Hawaii School of Medicine. He is on the National
In 1989 he started the Waianae Diet Program to help improve the health of the Hawaiian people. In 1993, his program won the highest national award from the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services. He is the author of 8 books including the Eat More, Weigh Less Diet, the HawaiiDiet, and the Good Carbohydrate Revolution. He has been featured in Newsweek, CBS “This Morning” CNN News, ABC national radio, Dateline NBC and as of 1995, he appears in the Encyclopedia Britannica. For his many accomplishments, he was honored this year by being formally designated a “Living Treasure of Hawaii.”
Founding President of the Hawaii Health Foundation whose purpose is to promote health through an integration of universal principles embodied in traditional Hawaiian healing principles with modern medical science.