Faculty Profiles: Food As Medicine
Course Directors
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James S. Gordon, MD, Founder and Director of The Center for Mind-Body Medicine; Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Family Medicine; Georgetown University School of Medicine; former Chairman of the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine Policy; author of Manifesto for a New Medicine, Comprehensive Cancer Care, and the soon-to-be-released Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven Stage Journey out of Depression (Penguin, June 2008). Read more about Dr. Gordon |
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Kathie Swift, MS, RD, LDN, Registered Dietitian / Licensed Nutritionist, Co-Director, Food As Medicine, The Center for Mind-Body Medicine; Nutrition Director, The UltraWellness Center; Nutrition Consultant, Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health |
Keynote Speaker |
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Mark Hyman, MD, Editor in Chief, Alternative Therapies in Health & Medicine; Founder and Medical Director of The UltraWellness Center; Author of UltraPrevention, The Detox Box, Ultrametabolism, The UltraSimple Diet, and the CD audio series The 5 Forces of Wellness |
Course Faculty
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John Bagnulo, MPH, PhD, Nutrition and Fitness Instructor, Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health; Author and Lecturer |
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Param Dedhia, MD, Instructor, Clinician, Researcher, Johns Hopkins Medical School |
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Colleen Fogarty Draper, MS, RD, Registered Dietitian; Founder, Nugenso Company; Program Director of Nutrigenomics, Interleukin Genetics; Member, Functional Medicine Nutritionist Advisory Board for the Institute of Functional Medicine |
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Joel M. Evans, MD, Founder and Director of the Center for Women's Health, Stamford, Connecticut; Assistant Professor, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Heath; author of The Whole Pregnancy Handbook |
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Cindy Geyer, MD, Medical Director Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Department of Integrative Health and Healing |
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Patrick Hanaway, MD, Board Certified Holistic Family Physician; Chief Medical Officer, Genova Diagnostic Lab; Founder, Family to Family: Your Home for Whole Family Health; President Elect, American Board of Holistic Medicine; |
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Daemon Jones, ND, Founder and Physician of Healthydaes Naturopathic Medical Center, Silver Spring, MD; Director of Community Nutrition for The Center for Mind-Body Medicine; Nutritional Faculty, Smith Farm Center for Healing and the Arts; Author of Daelicious! Recipes for Vibrant Health. |
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James Joseph, PhD, Director, Neuroscience Laboratory, USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University; Winner of numerous awards, including the 2007 North Atlantic Area USDA Agricultural Research Service Scientist of the Year Award; author of The Color Code |
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Rebecca Katz, MS, Food As Medicine Executive Chef; Author of One Bite at a Time: Nourishing Recipes for Cancer Survivors and their Friends; Faculty preceptor, University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical School |
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David S. Ludwig, MD, PhD, Director, Optimal Weight for Life (OWL) program, Children’s Hospital, Boston; Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School; author of Ending the Food Fight: Guide Your Child to a Healthy Weight in a Fast Food/Fake Food World |
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Michael Lumpkin, PhD, Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology and Biophysics at Georgetown University School of Medicine |
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Cheryl Mirabella, MA, HHC, Living Whole Health, nutritional health coach & speaker |
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Gerard Mullin, MD, MS, CNSP, Director of Nutrition Services and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), Division of Gastroenterology at Johns Hopkins Hospital. |
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Joseph E. Pizzorno, Jr., ND, President, Salugenecists, Inc.; Founding President of Bastyr University; Wellness and Integrative Medicine expert, WebMD; Linus Pauling Award 2004; “Naturopathic Physician of the Year” 2002; author, and founding editor of Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal |
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Asma Sadiq, MD, Director, Division of Child Development, Beth Israel Medical Center in New York; Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine |
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Neha Sangwan, MD, Intuitive Intelligence Health & Leadership Consulting |
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Course Advisors |
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Lawrence J. Cheskin, MD, FACP, Director, Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center, Associate Professor, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health |
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Antonia Demas, PhD, Founder and Director of the Food Studies Institute; Teacher, researcher, and author of the award winning "Food is Elementary" education curriculum for children K-12 |
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Leo Galland, MD, Director of the Foundation for Integrated Medicine, author and expert on reestablishing health in the gastrointestinal tract |
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Aviad Haramati, PhD, Professor and Director of Education, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University School of Medicine |
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Dean Ornish, MD, President and director of the Preventive Medicine Research Institute and a world-renowned researcher on reversing heart disease |
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Laura Pole, RN, MSN, OCNS, CancerGuide and Educator/consultant in Health Supportive Living; Head Chef for the Smith Farm Center for the Healing Arts, Washington, DC |
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Nora Pouillon, Master Chef & Owner of Restaurant Nora, the first certified organic restaurant in the United States, and Asia Nora in Washington, DC |
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Sam Queen, MA, MT, Certified Nutrition Specialist, Medical Researcher, and Founder of Queen and Company Health Communications, Inc. |
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Thomas G. Sherman, PhD, Professor, Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Georgetown University Medical Center |
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Walter Willett, MD, DrPH, Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, and Chairman of the Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School |
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Thomas M. Wnorowski, PhD, Clinical Nutrition Counselor, Migraine Prevention Specialist, practicing privately in Southern New Jersey |
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