Dr. Ellen Storm, Diseases Have Causes, One Doctor’s Journey with an Apple and a Pen
Ellen Storm is a UK-based pediatrician with 28 years of experience in the NHS (National Health Service). She is the founder and director of U-Turn Health®: the UK’s first low fat, high raw, plant-based health education, coaching and consultancy company. She is the author of the book Diseases Have Causes: One Doctor’s Journey with an Apple and a Pen.
She has been vegetarian since the age of eight, vegan for thirteen years, and high-raw vegan for ten. She was the first-prize winner in the 2014 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. She is the author of the poetry collection Rupture (Hippocrates Press, 2015). She is the mother of twin girls.
Ellen Storm has a BSc in biomedical sciences (1997) a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB BS) (2000). She is a member of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (MRCPCH) (2004). She has an MSc in public health (2005). She has a Certificate in plant-based nutrition (eCornell) (2014). She also has an MA in creative writing (2016).
She explains in her book how she got thrown off her PhD program after she wrote a rather controversial play. She notes she did get a distinction for module 2 of the PGCTHE (Postgraduate Certificate in Teaching in Higher Education) before she left.