Katherine Elmer
Lecturer II
Licensed Health Coach at UVM Health Comprehensive Pain Program and the Osher Center for Integrative Health
Agriculture, Landscape, and Environment
Areas of expertise
Community Herbalism
BIO
Katherine Elmer, M.S. (UVM 2007) grew up in the green hills of Central Vermont (Abenaki territory) and revels in the opportunity to connect with folks around a shared love of place and nature through whole foods nutrition and herbal medicine. She is a clinically-trained community herbalist, a national board certified health and wellness coach at the UVM Medical Center Comprehensive Pain Program at the Osher Center for Integrative Health, and has been teaching courses for nearly two decades on Herbal Medicine, Integrative Health and Food Systems topics at the University of Vermont and Vermont State University. Katherine completed professional herbalism training through the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism in 2014. She manages medicinal plant gardens on UVM campus and is the faculty advisor for the UVM student Herbalism Club. Katherine is founding director and a clinical herbalist at Spoonful Herbals (a local educational non-profit) and co-founder and former co-director of Railyard Apothecary in Burlington’s South End.
Bio
Katherine Elmer, M.S. (UVM 2007) grew up in the green hills of Central Vermont (Abenaki territory) and revels in the opportunity to connect with folks around a shared love of place and nature through whole foods nutrition and herbal medicine. She is a clinically-trained community herbalist, a national board certified health and wellness coach at the UVM Medical Center Comprehensive Pain Program at the Osher Center for Integrative Health, and has been teaching courses for nearly two decades on Herbal Medicine, Integrative Health and Food Systems topics at the University of Vermont and Vermont State University. Katherine completed professional herbalism training through the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism in 2014. She manages medicinal plant gardens on UVM campus and is the faculty advisor for the UVM student Herbalism Club. Katherine is founding director and a clinical herbalist at Spoonful Herbals (a local educational non-profit) and co-founder and former co-director of Railyard Apothecary in Burlington’s South End.