Uma Naidoo is a board-certified Harvard Nutritional Psychiatrist, professional chef, and nutritional biologist. She founded and directs the first hospital-based Nutritional Psychiatry Service in the US, and is the Director of Nutritional and Lifestyle Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) & Director of Nutritional Psychiatry at MGH Academy while serving on the faculty at Harvard Medical School. She authored the bestselling This Is Your Brain on Food (published as The Mood Food Connection in the UK).