Wendy Kohatsu, MD and Mollie Katzen

Wendy Kohatsu

Wendy Kohatsu, MD received her medical degree from UCLA in 1994, and completed her residency in family and community medicine at UCSF/San Francisco General Hospital in 1997. She graduated as one of the inaugural Fellows in the Program in Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, under the direction of Dr. Andrew Weil in 1999.

She has served on the faculty at East Tennessee State University, working with a rural, underserved community, and then as Co-Director for the Integrative Family Medicine Fellowship at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon until 2008. Dr. Kohatsu's clinical practice is the integration of primary care medicine with nutrition, lifestyle enhancement, mind-body therapies, and complementary modalities such as botanical and manual therapies. She is the editor and author of the book Complementary and Alternative Medicine Secrets, published in 2002.

Dr Kohatsu is also a chef! -- She received her professional culinary degree from the Oregon Culinary Institute in 2008 and loves to teach healthy cooking classes at local clinics and wellness centers, national conferences, farmer's markets, and in the humble space of her home kitchen. Her areas of expertise include the Mediterranean diet, Asian cuisine, and gluten-free cooking. Dr. Kohatsu's dream is to create an interactive TEACHING KITCHEN to cook with, educate, and inspire people to not only eat healthier, but to use food as medicine, and savor life.

She now serves as Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine, UCSF, and is the Director of the Integrative Medicine Fellowship at the Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency program in Santa Rosa, CA. The clinic is a Sonoma County community health center, and the first Integrative Medicine Fellowship for the Underserved (IM4U) on the West Coast.

Mollie Katzen

Mollie Katzen, with over 6 million books in print, is listed by the New York Times as one of the best-selling cookbook authors of all time. A 2007 inductee into the prestigious James Beard Cookbook Hall of Fame, and largely credited with moving healthful vegetarian food from the "fringe" to the center of the American dinner plate, Ms. Katzen has been named by Health Magazine as one of "The Five Women Who Changed the Way We Eat."

In addition she is a charter member of the Harvard School of Public Health Nutrition Roundtable and an inaugural honoree of the Natural Health Hall of Fame. An award-winning illustrator and designer as well as best-selling cookbook author and popular public speaker, Mollie Katzen is best known as the creator of the groundbreaking classics Moosewood Cookbook, and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. Her other books include the award-winning children's cookbook trilogy, Pretend Soup, Honest Pretzels, and Salad People; Vegetable Heaven (winner of the International Cookbook Reveu Best in Category award); Sunlight Café; Eat, Drink, & Weigh Less (with Walter Willett, MD of Harvard), and the best-selling The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without.