Dr. Uma Naidoo, MD is a Harvard trained nutritional psychiatrist, professional chef, and nutritional biologist & author of the national & international bestseller: “This is Your Brain on Food.” Her most recent best-selling book is “Calm Your Mind with Food.” The late Michelin-starred chef David Bouley described Dr. Uma Naidoo as the world’s first “triple threat” in the food and medicine space. She is the founding director of the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the United States and also serves as the Director of Nutritional, Lifestyle and Metabolic Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. 

She’s known as the Mood Food MD. She was recently awarded a prestigious international award by the University of Toronto: the 2024 Rundle-Lister Lectureship in Transformative Nutritional Medical Education. She is an Instructor on Brain Health @MasterClass.

She is a regular media contributor and is on the Harvard Health Publishing Editorial Advisory Board. She was also invited to serve as an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum, and the United Nations mental health task force. She is an Instructor on @MasterClass.After being one of only four US physicians to be invited to meet personally with the former HRH The Prince of Wales, now King Charles III, she was asked to lead a public health Food for Mood Campaign with the UK College of Medicine, where she serves as the US Ambassador for Mental Health. She designed and released the first and only CME based educational program at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard to educate other clinicians globally about nutrition for brain health.