The UC San Diego Center for Integrative Nutrition brings together professional training, clinical care, and research in integrative nutrition — embracing food as the cornerstone of health and disease prevention, care, remission, and maintenance, for individuals, communities, and the entire planet.
Our dietitians and physicians combine medical nutrition therapy with integrative and functional medicine — offering counseling, education, and personalized, whole-food, plant-based nutrition therapy across every stage of health: prevention, care, remission, and maintenance.
Home of the Natural Healing & Cooking School and the Certificate in Integrative Nutrition, we teach the core principles of food as medicine — from hands-on plant-based cooking classes streamed to your kitchen to a 140-hour distance-education program for aspiring and practicing health professionals.
To advance evidence-based nutrition science, we conduct high-potential research on the effects of diet on disease — in collaboration with the UC San Diego Center for Integrative Research.
Lauray MacElhern
Lauray has spent her career teaching healing cooking and building integrative nutrition programs — co-founding UC San Diego's Natural Healing & Cooking Program and training chefs, clinicians, and communities to put food at the center of health.
Anna Morrell
Anna is an integrative registered dietitian who takes a whole-person approach to nutrition, specializing in digestive health, disease prevention, and women's health. She also teaches culinary medicine courses that blend cooking with functional foods expertise.
Tiffany Holt
Tiffany is an integrative registered dietitian nutritionist and research dietitian, passionate about using whole foods for healing and preventing disease. She specializes in metabolic health, gastrointestinal conditions, women's health, and eating disorders.
Gordon Saxe
Director, Krupp Center for Integrative Research
A Preventive Medicine physician and nutritional epidemiologist, Dr. Saxe is an international leader in the 'food as medicine' movement, with pioneering research in whole-food, plant-based dietary interventions for cancer patients.