Gordon Saxe, MD, PhD, MPH

Dr. Gordon Saxe is the Executive Director of the Krupp Center for Integrative Research, a preventive and integrative medicine physician, an epidemiologist, a founding member of the UC San Diego Centers for Integrative Health, and a national leader in the food-as-medicine movement. He serves as the FDA Sponsor-Investigator of the Mushroom and Chinese Herbs for COVID-19 studies and his current and past research has also focused on diet and endometriosis; diet and glaucoma; lifestyle medicine and cardiac disease; epidemiology of diet and cancers of the prostate, breast, and pancreas; diet and body-mind exercise to control progression of advanced prostate cancer; and diet and gene expression in prostate cancer. He received his MD from Michigan State University, his PhD in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan, and his MPH in Nutrition from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.