John Gillespie
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Dr. Gillespie's Recipes, LLC, is a novel specialty food start up founded by John Gillespie, MD, MBA and Kenton Fedde, JD, PhD. The purpose of the company is to develop and bring to market nutritious and ready to eat foods aimed at the specific nutritional needs for adults and caregivers of older adults. The concept was brought to Dr. Fedde by Dr. Gillespie while he was caring for his aging mother with dementia. It was during that time that John noticed the rapid weight loss in his parent and the absence of foods aimed at providing seniors appropriate nutrition to aid with both the nutritional needs as our bodies age and with healthy calories to provide weight maintenance. The current 'Adult Nutrition" aisles of grocery stores offer only shakes and powders that most people find unacceptable. The formation of Dr. Gillespie's Recipes LLC resulted in a food patent of three soup recipes. We currently have approved labels for these soups from the USDA and the recipes ready for a co-packer for manufacturing to launch. Our goal is to establish a new food category of Senior Foods. Dr. Gillespie is a Senior Medical Director at Pfizer in the division of Internal Medicine, and is the lead clinician for the blockbuster therapeutic Eliquis that prevents blood clots. He has a BS in Physical Chemistry from Allegheny College, an MBA from the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business, University of PIttsburgh, a Medical Degree from the George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington D.C., a residency in Psychiatry from The Mount Sinai Hopsital, New York City, and a Fellowship in Public Psychiatry from Columbia University, New York.