Drew Ramsey, MD is a board-certified psychiatrist, psychotherapist and author. His work focuses on evidence-based integrative psychiatry, Nutritional Psychiatry and male mental health. He founded the Brain Food Clinic, a digital mental health practice, and Spruce Mental Health in Jackson, Wyoming. Using the latest research along with decades of clinical experience, he hopes to help people improve their mental health and build resilient mental fitness.
Dr. Ramsey is a mental health advocate/influencer, compelling keynote speaker and conducts workshops nationally. He co-hosts the Men’s Health Magazine series Friday Sessions with Gregory Scott Brown, MD and has delivered three TEDx talks, a video series with Big Think, and the BBC documentary Food on the Brain. His work and writing have been featured by The Today Show, CBS Sunday Morning, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, Lancet Psychiatry, TIME and NPR.
He is on the editorial board of Medscape Psychiatry, the advisory board of Men’s Health and the Scientific Advisory Board of the anti-stigma non-profit Bring Change To Mind and Teton County Youth and Family Services. He served as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University, Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeon for twenty years where he taught and supervised Psychiatric Evaluation, Supportive Psychotherapy, Brief Dynamic Psychotherapy, Nutritional Psychiatry as well as helping direct the department’s media and social media initiatives.
His latest book Healing the Modern Brain: Nine Tenets To Build Mental Fitness and Revitalize Your Mind will be published by HarperCollins in March 2025. His previous books helped establish Nutritional Psychiatry and explore the connection between food and mental health: the international best-seller Eat To Beat Depression and Anxiety (HarperWave 2021) now translated into 9 languages; the award-winning cookbook Eat Complete: The 21 Nutrients that Fuel Brain Power, Boost Weight Loss and Transform Your Health (HarperWave 2016); the bestseller 50 Shades of Kale (HarperWave 2013) and The Happiness Diet: A Nutritional Prescription for a Sharp Brain, Balanced Mood and Lean, Energized Body (Rodale 2011).
He and his team have created three e-courses: Healing the Modern Brain, Eat To Beat Depression, and Nutritional Psychiatry for Clinicians; along with free downloads, the free nutritional psychiatry cooking class the Mental Fitness Kitchen, a weekly mental health update newsletter Friday Feels, and a mental health and mental fitness focused podcast.
Dr. Ramsey is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and a Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. He completed his specialty training in adult psychiatry at Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, received an M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Earlham College. He lives in Jackson, Wyoming with his wife and two children.
Learn more at DrewRamseyMD.com
Education & Training
- Board Certified American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
- Adult Psychiatry: Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute
- Internship: New York Presbyterian Hospital
- Doctor of Medicine: Indiana University School of Medicine
- B.A. Biology: Earlham College, Phi Beta Kappa
Memberships
- American Psychiatric Association
- International Society for Nutritional Psychiatry Research
- The Author’s Guild
- The American Society of Nutrition
- Phi Beta Kappa
Specialties
- Clinical Treatment of Depression and Anxiety
- Nutrition and Mental Health
- Alternative and Complimentary Treatments of Mood Disorders
- Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
“Dr. Drew Ramsey’s commitment to creating a natural, harmonic relationship between what you fuel your mind with and how healthy it grows is groundbreaking. His commitment to one’s mental health and how much of it can be connected to essentials from nature is the kind of research and connection we need to better our own health and the nature we all share. We all can benefit from his work and his thoughtful authorship.”
Tracy ANDERSON
Fitness Pioneer and Creator of the Tracy Anderson Method