Ingrid Kohlstadt MD, MPH, FACN has been elected a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition and is an associate at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health. She is the founder and chief medical officer of INGRIDients™, Inc., which provides medical nutrition information to colleagues, clients, and consumers. She is employed at the Food and Drug Administration, Office of Pediatric Therapeutics. The views expressed on this website are those of Dr. Kohlstadt and no official endorsement by the FDA is provided or should be inferred.

Dr. Kohlstadt is a graduate of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Class of 1993. She earned her bachelor’s degree in biochemistry at the University of Maryland and as a Rotary Club scholar at Universität Tübingen, Germany in 1989.

Board-certified in General Preventive Medicine and with a graduate degree in public health, she became convinced that nutrition is powerful and underutilized in preventing disease. She therefore focused her career on nutrition through fellowships at Johns Hopkins and The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She worked as a bariatric physician at the Johns Hopkins Weight Management Center and the Florida Orthopaedic Institute.

As a congressional intern and later with the FDA, USDA, health department, USAID, and United States Antarctic Program, Dr. Kohlstadt studied the rugged terrain of health policy, specifically how food and nutrients can be incorporated into primary care medicine. These experienced served as a basis for editing Food and Nutrients in Disease Management (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2009) and Scientific Evidence for Musculoskeletal, Bariatric, and Sports Nutrition (CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2006). Both texts are developed by large forums of medical experts and are intended for health care practitioners, informed patients, and policy-makers.

Dr. Kohlstadt resides with her husband, Ellis Richman, and their daughter Raeha in historic Annapolis, Maryland.