Kathie Madonna Swift, MS RD LDN
MyFoodMyHealth's Registered Dietitian & Licensed Nutritionist
Kathie Madonna Swift is a leading educator, innovator and practitioner in the field of integrative nutrition. She has been the curriculum consultant and co-designer of Food As Medicine, a professional training program sponsored by the Center for Mind Body Medicine since the programs founding in 2001. Kathie is the Chief Nutrition Advisor for www.myfoodmyhealth.com, an online program that provides customized meal plans for individuals with various health conditions, and created www.myfoundationdiet.com, a gluten and dairy free elimination food plan. She also shares her passion for the power of food as a teacher of healthy living programs at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, MA. Kathie is a research consultant for the Institute for Extraordinary Living at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and the Senior Nutrition Advisor for the Optimal Health and Prevention Research Foundation in San Diego, California.
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 Policy. In 2005, Kathie joined Dr. Mark Hyman to help establish the UltraWellness Center, where she was the Nutrition Director for three years and continues to practice today.
Kathie is on the faculty at Saybrook University as an Instructor in the country’s first graduate program in Mind Body Medicine. She is also helping to design the curriculum for an accredited graduate program in nutritional medicine at Tai Sophia.
Kathie sits on the Nutrition Advisory Board of the Institute for Functional Medicine, Scientific Advisory board for Free and Clear Mind Body Program for Corporate Wellness, and the Advisory Board for the Integrative Healthcare Symposium and Martha Stewart’s Whole Living Magazine. She served as the 2009 Chair of Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine (DIFM), a dietetic practice group of the American Dietetic Association representing dietitians in holistic, complementary and alternative medicine. Kathie has participated in Nutrition Roundtables at the Harvard School of Public Health and medical school education programs at Georgetown University Medical School and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
She serves on the editorial board for Integrative Medicine: A Clinician’s Journal and has been a scientific reviewer for Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine. Her articles and interviews have been published in Nutrition in Clinical Practice, Yoga Journal, Healing Lifestyles and Spas, Body + Soul, Alternative Medicine, Experience Life, USA Today, Martha Stewart Living, Epicurious, CNN, and others. Kathie is co-authoring The Inside Tract with Dr. Gerard Mullin to be published by Rodale Press in 2011.
Kathie loves to travel and is an outdoor enthusiast who enjoys hiking, rollerblading, skiing and swimming. She savors relaxing with a delicious book, a couple of her all time favorites being Harvest for Hope by Jane Goodall and The School of Essential Ingredients by Erica Bauermeister. Kathie’s greatest love and joy is spending time with her beloved family and her new granddaughter.
Learn About the My Foundation Diet
Developed by MyFoodMyHealth and Kathie Swift, the My Foundation Diet is a “nourishing compass” guiding one on the path to restoring, renewing and rebalancing their health.
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