Dr. Christina Cherian is a board-certified Family Medicine physician. She completed her undergraduate career at the University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida, where she majored in Biomedical Sciences and minored in Public Health. She remained at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine for her medical degree through the Honors Medical Program. She completed her residency in Family Medicine at the St. Vincent’s Family Medicine Center in Jacksonville, Florida, and was awarded the Jane Lanier Community Service Award upon graduation. She holds a certificate in Plant-Based Nutrition via the eCornell Center for Nutrition Studies and is pursuing additional board certification in Lifestyle Medicine.
She is very passionate about and educated in prevention and reversal of chronic diseases such as high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol through the tenets of lifestyle medicine, especially plant-based nutrition. Her personal interests include yoga, meditation and mindfulness, reading, hiking, traveling, watercoloring, and spending time with family.