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Aidan Dewar

Co-founder and CEO of Nourish, a telehealth platform connecting patients with insurance-covered registered dietitians

Founded

Insights & ideas

Aidan Dewar frames chronic disease as fundamentally a nutrition crisis, arguing that conditions like heart disease, diabetes, obesity, and GI disorders are downstream of what people eat, and that the US healthcare system spends over $4 trillion, more than any other country, while producing worse outcomes [1]. He believes the solution lies in preventive, food-as-medicine care built around registered dietitians rather than treating conditions only after they become severe [1]. Dewar emphasizes that dietitians are especially effective not just at educating patients but at helping them sustain behavior change over time, since he sees long-term habit formation, not short-term fixes, as what actually drives health outcomes [1]. He also argues that this kind of care is underused because of access and insurance barriers, and that Nourish's role is to make an already generously covered benefit easy to find and use by matching patients with dietitians through telehealth and insurance integration [1].

Experience

  1. Co-Founder & CEO
    NourishNov 2021 to Present
  2. Co-Founder
    Feed the Front Line2020 to 2020
  3. Associate Consultant
    Bain & Company2018 to 2020
  4. Summer Analyst
    L Catterton2017 to 2017
  5. Summer Analyst
    Goldman Sachs2016 to 2016
  6. Summer Intern
    AT&T2015 to 2015

Education

Media & appearances

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