David Eisenberg, MD, is Director of Culinary Nutrition and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Nutrition, at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. In 1979, David was selected as the first exchange medical student from the US to the People’s Republic of China. From 2000-2010.
Dr. Eisenberg served as the founding Director of the Harvard Medical School’s Division for Research and Education in Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies and has been an advisor to the US National Institutes of Health and the National Board of Medical Examiners. Dr. Eisenberg founded the Teaching Kitchen Collaborative (www.teachingkitchens.org), a network of 81 organizations with teaching kitchens, intended to evaluate best practices relating to nutrition, culinary and lifestyle education.
As the son and grandson of professional bakers, David aspires to synergize the culinary and medical communities to enhance human and planetary health.
