The leading introductory medical nutrition training program in the nation, providing a semester’s worth of nutrition curriculum for physicians, registered dietitians and other health professionals.
Program founded: 2001
Created as an elective at Georgetown University Medical School by Susan Lord, MD and James Gordon, MD (see Program History for full story)
Susan Lord, MD – Course Director, 2001 – 2007
Kathie Swift, MS, RD – Co-Course Director, 2008 – 2009; Co-designer, expert curriculum consultant, 2001 – present
James Gordon, MD – Co-Course Director, 2008 – present
Jo Cooper – Program Manager, 2004 – present
Dates & location the program has been held:
2001 – Jackson Hole, WY
2003 – Panama City, FL
2004, 2005 – Berkeley, CA
2006, 2007, 2008 – Baltimore, MD
2009 – San Francisco, CA
Washington, DC
Miami, FL
2010 – Washington, DC
2011 – Bethesda, MD (Washington, DC area)
Graduates to date: 2290
Medical Schools represented to date: 74 (see list here)
Community Nutrition: Read about the Center’s work in helping form the Baltimore Nutrition Group, a network of health professionals working in inner city Baltimore
The last year we had a 4” thick paper course binder: 2006
Trees we have saved since switching to an electronic syllabus: priceless
(Click here to read about our efforts to go green)
