Rebecca Katz, MS
Food As Medicine Executive Chef

Rebecca Kaz, ChefRebecca Katz, MS, author of One Bite at a Time: Nourishing Recipes for Cancer Survivors and their Friends (now in its fourth printing), is an accomplished chef and culinary translator. She is a faculty preceptor for the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) Medical School program entitled ‘Care of the Seriously Ill’, a program that receives top evaluations from her 2 nd year medical students. She has also consulted, lectured, and done culinary demonstrations for leading health care institutions including Manhattan’s Cornell Medical Center, Johns Hopkins Medicine, and INOVA -- one of Northern Virginia’s largest health care providers. She is the Executive Chef for Food as Medicine, and the Senior Chef at the internationally acclaimed Commonweal Cancer Help Program in Bolinas, California.

Rebecca consults with Berkeley Heart Labs, the nation’s premier cardiovascular risk management company, where she has designed and implemented an in-house nutritional and culinary program for BHL’s more than 100 nationwide clinical educators to increase patient compliance through healthy eating. She was recently featured on the cover of Caring4Cancer, a national Magazine distributed by doctors to more than 500,000 cancer patients.  Rebecca also conducts inter-active question and answer sessions on eating well during cancer treatment on Carepages.com.

She holds a Masters of Science degree in Health and Nutrition Education and received her culinary training from the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts. Rebecca is the founder of the Inner Cook, a culinary business focused on teaching individuals and communities how to make healthy connections with food.

A myriad of food related experiences, including a sojourn to Italy, where she studied Mediterranean cuisine with chefs and signoras from Florence to Sicily, shaped Rebecca’s philosophy that health-supportive food must taste great in order to be nourishing and healing. She resides in the bay area and is currently working on her second book.

For more information, please visit: http://www.innercook.com