YOUR CREW
A Professional
Health-focused
Team Working
for a More Vibrant You
At The Healing Table™, we offer a unique approach to health and wellness by connecting you with a dedicated team of professionals, all working together to support your journey towards better health.
Our innovative platform leverages the expertise of:
Get to Know Your Crew

Michael Fenster, MD (Chef Dr. Mike)
CEO of BRIDGMED
Michael S. Fenster
MD, FACC, FSCA&I, FRSM, MIANE, PEMBA, Member FIDES
Michael S. Fenster, MD, is amongst the only Interventional Cardiologists, Professional Chefs, and Professors of Culinary Medicine to be found anywhere. His Culinary Medicine program at The University of Montana is likewise amongst the first of its kind in the United States.
Through his Culinary Medicine university courses, speaking events, articles, books, personal outreach, television, and other media appearances, Chef Dr. Mike has become the voice of Culinary Medicine. He continues speaking worldwide as a recognized expert on food and health and is a sought-after keynote speaker. In addition to innumerable media appearances, Chef Dr. Mike, as he is informally known to friends and fans, has hosted his own PBS television show, House Calls with Chef Dr. Mike, and delivered a TEDx talk on Culinary Medicine.
BridgMed was forged from the vision of Chef Dr. Mike after he faced personal health issues that caused him to re-examine the interaction between food and health through the lens of the individual food experience. Building upon a diverse foundation of information theory and evidence-based study, he formulated an approach that, in many respects, was not only novel but often ran counter to much of the conventional food-health advice being dispensed at the time.
Decades later, Dr. Fenster is now acknowledged as one of the world leaders in the area of food and health. The World Health Organization has recognized him through the FIDES program as a food-health influencer and reliable source of data-derived information. The successes of his patients and other participants encourage him to carry on the further development and sharing of the Culinary Medicine method.
Developments like the NOVA food classification system developed at the University of São Paulo, Brazil, based on the level of food processing and studies from around the world utilizing it, help provide direct and incontrovertible evidence in support of the Culinary Medicine approach to food and health. It was in concert with those events that Dr. Fenster developed the Culinary Medicine program – meeting all the rigors and vettings of a university-level university course – at the University of Montana.
Dr. Fenster has spent the last several years determining the best way to bring the power of Culinary Medicine to the people who need it most. Years in development, the result is The Healing TableTM, a novel, person-centered, Internet-based software solution that gets to the heart of each of our individual relationships between the food we eat and our health, wellness, longevity, and happiness.
Won’t you join us at The Healing Table? It is a far richer feast than you could ever imagine.
Robert Wood
CEO & Founder of SuperFd
Chef Robbie / Advisor
Chef Robert Wood has decades of kitchen experience and has been the driving force behind EcoCaters and SuperFd since 2013. Both are headquartered in Washington, D.C., and his two businesses have been thriving since inception. EcoCaters focuses on providing exceptional catering services to the communities of Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, and San Diego, offering high-quality food and sustainable practices for private and corporate events.
Meanwhile, SuperFd Inc. has become recognized as a premier sports nutrition provider throughout the United States, delivering well-balanced, nutritious meals to clients prepared by a team of experienced chefs who work in partnership with trainers, nutritionists, and physicians. Among a myriad of customers, SuperFd Inc. provides services to the L.A. Kings, the Washington Capitals, the Wizards, the Mystics from the Women’s National Basketball Association, and many other teams from across the country.

Robert Wood (Chef Robbie)
CEO & Founder of SuperFd
Chef Robbie / Advisor
Shely Salemnia
MS, RD, CLE, MBA – Registered Dietician Lead
Shely is a Registered Dietitian passionate about educating others on nutrition and health. She holds her Master’s in Human Nutrition from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) and her Bachelors in Nutrition from New York University, and completed her Dietetic Internship at CSUN with Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and WIC. She most recently completed an MBA in Healthcare Innovation. Shely has experience in clinical nutrition, practicing Medical Nutrition Therapy for hospitalized patients from newborns to the elderly. Shely has been teaching the Well-Nourished Nutrition Series through the MMC for cancer patients with Tower Cancer Research where she teaches all about nutrition in relation to cancer.
Specialties: Oncology, Diabetes, Lactation, Sports, Cultural Competency, Plant-based Nutrition

Shely Salemnia
Registered Dietician Lead

Cheyenne Herington
Customer Services Specialist
Cheyenne Herington
Customer Services Specialist
Cheyenne currently serves as the Customer Services Specialist at the Help Desk. She is there to welcome everyone, orient them to the environment, answer questions, and troubleshoot any technical challenges so that each participant can begin their personal Culinary Medicine journey as trouble free as possible.
Leonard K. Fenster
AI/IT systems expert-Advisor
Leonard completed a thesis on neural networks and is an international speaker on quantum neural networks. He has authored various tech articles and books, holds a data science certification from Johns Hopkins, and has served as the Global CTO for Microsoft’s customer success business as well as CTO for Microsoft’s data and AI business. He is currently senior vice president for SaaS innovation and consulting at the Ellucian. Leonard advises on the AI-technology aspects of The Healing TableTM




