Dr. Denise Pickett-Bernard

Denise Pickett-Bernard brings a variety of education and experience her lectures. Starting her career as a chef after graduating from the Culinary Institute of America, she went on to earn a B.S. in Food Service Management, an M.S. in Food Science and Human Nutrition. She focused her Ph.D. studies on Spirituality and Weight-loss Maintenance. She is a Certified Practitioner with the Institute of Functional Medicine, an Integrative and Functional Nutrition Academy Faculty member and has a private practice. She co-created the rehydration supplement, R3, with her company RevitalizePro. While she has held academic and industry leadership positions, she really enjoys the opportunity to merge all of her passions in food, culinary practice, functional nutrition, and mind-body medicine when teaching others to use food as medicine to optimize human flourishing. She has developed curricula and programs at the bachelor’s and master’s levels and presently she is an Adjunct Associate Professor and Functional Nutrition Liaison with Nova Southeastern University. Her practice website, www.drdeenutrition.com/about , offers a more complete picture of her philosophies.