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Kathie Swift, RD
MyFoodMyHealth's Registered Dietitian & Licensed Nutritionist
Kathie Madonna Swift is a Registered Dietitian and Licensed Nutritionist. Kathie has been recognized as one of the top clinical nutritionists in the country, known for her inspirational and visionary work in medical nutrition therapy. She shares her passion for the healing power of food through her work as co-director of Food As Medicine, a professional nutrition training program sponsored by the Center for Mind Body Medicine and as a teacher of nutrition and cooking immersion programs at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health.
A frequent lecturer, teacher and consultant, Kathie is actively involved in furthering the integrative and functional medicine education of Registered Dietitians and other health professionals. She currently serves as Chair of Nutrition in Complementary Care, a dietetic practice group representing dietitians in Complementary and Alternative Medicine. Kathie sits on a number of medical boards, including the Nutrition Advisory Board of the Institute for Functional Medicine, scientific advisory board for Free and Clear Mind Body Program and the editorial board for Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal. She has participated in Nutrition Roundtables at the Harvard School of Public Health and is a faculty committee advisor to Georgetown University Medical School.
Kathie spearheaded the pioneering functional medicine program at Canyon Ranch in the Berkshires, where she served as nutrition director for more than a decade and created the “Nutritional Intelligence” dietary guidelines which were presented at the White House Commission on Complementary and Alternative Medicine. In 2005 Kathie joined Dr. Mark Hyman to help establish the UltraWellness Center, where she was nutrition director for three years.
Kathie is a scientific reviewer for articles on diet and nutrition-related topics for Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine and the Journal of the American Dietetic Association. Her magazine articles and interviews have been featured in Healing Lifestyles and Spas, Body and Soul, Alternative Medicine, Experience Life, Yoga Journal, USA Today, Martha Stewart Living, Epicurious, CNN, and others.
Kathie loves to travel and is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys hiking, rollerblading, skiing and swimming. She savors relaxing with a great book, a couple of her all time favorites being Harvest for Hope by Jane Goodall and The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister.
