About Chef Dr. Lo
2020
ChefDrLo.com Launched
2012
Fatherhood & Diabetes
As a father and doctor living with Diabetes, I am inspired to make healthy food for myself and my family and want to help people to live healthy and happy lives without compromising the joy of eating. This is how I became, the ChefMD.
2008
Columbia University Medical School
After Graduating from Columbia University Medical School where I became an Anesthesiologist, I became inspired by my patients. Being in the operating room exposed me to various cases. My cases inspired my recipes.
2001
September 11th
After graduating from Yale I took a job at Morgan Stanley in the Twin Towers in New York City. I was in the second tower on 9/11/2001, which happened to also be my 23rd birthday. Surviving 9/11 gave me a new lease on life. I told myself that life was…
2000
French Culinary Institute
I studied at the French Culinary Institute to become a chef and worked with world renowned chefs, including several Iron chefs. I was well on my way to becoming a chef but then left the institute to study medicine after my parents began to develop health problems. I felt inspired…
Education at Yale
I studied molecular biology at Yale University, which taught me a lot about both the human body and the science behind food.
1978
Born September 11, 1978
I was born to Chinese Immigrants and grew up in Buffalo, New York. I learned to cook from my father. When I told my parents that I wanted to be a “chef” they laughed. They always wanted me to become a doctor, and they encouraged me to cook for fun.