Jarita Hagans, M.D., is a board-certified family physician, foodie, gardener, and author. She attended Howard University in Washington, D.C.,for undergraduate and medical school. Afterward, she completed a surgery internship at Carilion Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Virginia. Eastern Virginia Medical School at Portsmouth Family Medicine is where she received her family medicine training. After residency, she practiced medicine at a community clinic in post-hurricane Katrina New Orleans and developed a love for cooking, gardening and natural remedies. She is rolling those passions into an online meal-prep business for busy professional women and a brick-and-mortar family practice office in Washington, D.C.