Dr. Nathan Wood, MD, MHS, Chef
Director of Culinary Medicine
Yale
Dr. Nate Wood is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the inaugural Director of Culinary Medicine at the Yale School of Medicine and Irving and Alice Brown Teaching Kitchen at Yale New Haven Health. Board-certified in internal medicine, lifestyle medicine, and obesity medicine, Nate practices as a primary care physician, serves as a core faculty member in the Yale Primary Care residency program, and co-leads the weight management clinic at the New Haven Primary Care Consortium.
Before becoming a doctor, Nate answered to “chef.” He attended culinary school at the Institute of Culinary Education in N