Ingrid Kohlstadt MD, MPH is a physician graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. She is Faculty Associate at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the largest school of public health in the world, in the Center for Human Nutrition. Board certified in preventive medicine, Dr. Kohlstadt earned a Masters Degree in Public Health (Epidemiology), with an undergraduate degree in biochemistry. She is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition, a Fellow of the American College of Preventive Medicine, and most recently completed a two year appointment to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in the Office of the Commissioner, Office of Pediatric Therapeutics. Her goal to transform the health of children and their families through nutrition is profoundly shaped by her clinical, public health, research and regulatory work.

Dr. Kohlstadt is considered a thought leader in nutritional medicine, and her second medical reference textbook entitled Food and Nutrients in Disease Management (CRC Press 2009) was reviewed in both the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), and in Hopkins Medicine Magazine. Dr. Kohlstadt is also the editor of Advancing Medicine with Food and Nutrients 2nd Edition (CRC Press Dec. 2012). Click Here for an Audio-Digest interview with Dr. Kohlstadt discussing Food and Nutrients in Disease Management.

Dr. Kohlstadt is also a contributing author for TIME Magazine Online's Health/Ideas section, and serves on the Editorial Board for the peer reivew publication Nutrition Journal.