About Dr. Cherian
Dr. Cherian is passionate about and educated in disease prevention and reversal through the tenets of lifestyle medicine, especially evidence-based nutrition. She completed her undergraduate career at 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.
While in medical school, she was part of the International Medicine Scholarly Concentration, through which she completed a summer of field research in Ecuador. She also had the opportunity to travel to Dominican Republic twice as part of annual medical mission trips and served as president of the Student Physicians for Social Responsibility.
She then went on to complete her residency in Family Medicine at the St. Vincent’s Family Medicine Center in Jacksonville, Florida. During residency, she completed a certification in Plant-Based Nutrition via the eCornell Center for Nutrition Studies. She also presented a short lecture series on evidence-based nutrition to her fellow residents and faculty. She then returned to the Tampa Bay area to serve her community for one and a half years as a family physician with BayCare Medical Group. She is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, and the American College of Lifestyle Medicine. She completed board certification in Lifestyle Medicine in 2022.
She is currently working in primary care for My Virtual Physician. Her personal interests include reading, yoga, meditation and mindfulness, hiking, traveling, watercoloring, and playing with her nieces.