Marydale DeBor founded Fresh Advantage LLC after 25 years experience in health care administration and philanthropy. Throughout her career, she has been dedicated to improving the health status of individuals adversely affected by poverty and lack of access to care, food and shelter. While a senior executive at a community hospital, she recognized the urgent need to revolutionize traditional institutional food service and bring considerations of nutritional status and food security into the paradigm of medical practice. Her goal is to help institutional clients to provide nutritious, wholesome, andculturally appropriate meals to those they serve.She created Food is Primary Care® for the company tag line to emphasize the profound impact that a diet of fresh, nutritious, and affordable food produced by sustainable methods play in creating and maintaining human and environmental health and productivity. Marydale’s wide-ranging experience includes creating effective public private-nonprofit partnerships to promote public health through food system improvement.Marydale regularly lectures at universities and national conferences. Her advocacy work recently included leading a coalition of grassroots organizations to file public commentsin the IRS rulemaking process relevant to the community health needs assessment regulatory process. The effort was successful and resulted in the inclusion, in the Final IRS Rule, of “access to adequate nutrition” and other social determinants of disease in the definition of significant health needs that can be considered by nonprofit hospitals in thedevelopment of community health needs assessments and implementation plans.She is a lecturer in the School of Medicine at Yale University. Her work and philosophy of “Food is Primary Care ” has been featured in a variety of media articles (http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2016/01/24/food-for-thought-2/) and national newspublications: http://health.usnews.com/health-news/hospital-oftomorrow/articles/2015/12/08/some-hospitals-prescribe-food-take-other-steps-to-fight-food-insecurity and http://frac.org/2016/08/hospitals-can-treat-child-foodinsecurity-with-summer-meals-programs-an-interview-with-marydale-debor-jd/ Marydale is a member of the Food Insecurity Task Force of the Greater Boston Food Bank. She is an active participant in the CDC-funded, national Nutrition and Obesity Policy Research and Evaluation Network.CV, with publications, available upon request. More information and additional media coverage, may also be obtained from the Fresh Advantage® website: www.freshadvantage.com