Dr. Geeta Maker-Clark MD, ABOIM is a nationally recognized leader, speaker, educator, and advocate in the field of Integrative Medicine. She is the Director of Integrative Nutrition and Advocacy at Endeavor Health, Clinical Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Culinary Medicine program at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine, and faculty for the U Of AZ Integrative Medicine and Ayurveda Fellowship.
Dr. Maker-Clark has spent two decades studying integrative medicine, nutritional science, botanical medicine, mind-body medicine, and natural childbirth in health clinics all over the world. She started the Food is Power program on the South Side of Chicago in Chicago Public Schools to empower youth with health literacy, through a curriculum that focuses on decolonized food education, food justice and sovereignty. Dr. Maker-Clark was recognized as a national leader in food justice activism with a Castanea Fellowship from 2019-2022 and the Mesa Refuge Michael Pollan Fellowship in Food Journalism in 2021. She was recently awarded by the American Nutrition Association for her accomplishments in the field of nutrition and Health and Medicine Policy Research Group with the Health Justice award. She is a widely requested speaker and is passionate about sharing knowledge and experience to help communities thrive.
Dr. Maker-Clark has consulted for non profits that work with formerly incarcerated people who are now trained chefs, helping accelerate a program for healthy meals distribution for food insecure communities affected by COVID. She works with the South Asian domestic violence organization Apna Ghar to teach classes that feature culturally favored foods, and is in partnership with Urban Growers Collective- a Black- and women-led non-profit that cultivates eight urban farms on 11 acres of land, on Chicago’s South Side, having created several food as medicine programs that reach thousands.
Dr. Maker-Clark believes in transforming the way we think about medicine and looks to ancient wisdom and modern struggles as opportunities to heal with the medicines that are all around us. As a woman of color, a community organizer, and integrative physician and thought leader in the food as medicine movement, her work aims to help communities be well nourished- the heart of healing in our society and country.
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