Dr. Deborah Kennedy

Deborah Kennedy PhD is the CEO of The Food Coach AcademyTM, Build Healthy Kids®, and Culinary Rehab®; Director of Culinary Medicine at Rouxbe; Adjunct Professor at the University of New England, and consultant in Food is Medicine and Culinary Medicine. As a chef, culinary medicine expert (having written The textbook in Culinary Medicine, which for the first time created culinary competencies for nutrition recommendations), and value based medicine expert, she is able to assist companies and organizations in creating solutions in the Food is Medicine and Culinary Medicine space that directly meets their client's unmet needs - food products, programmatic design, outreach solutions, assessment of unmet needs, teaching kitchen design and more. It is essential in the Food is Medicine space to accompany medically tailored meals with micro-leanring in culinary skill building.