Todd Caldecott, Dip.Cl.H., RH(AHG), CAP(NAMA), originally a film and television actor, is Director of the Dogwood School  of Botanical Medicine, a clinical Ayurvedic practitioner and author of Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life (2006) and Food As Medicine: The Theory and Practice of Food (2011), and co-editor of Ayurveda In Nepal: The Teachings of Vaidya Mana Bajra Bajracharya (2011). He is one of the leading experts of Āyurveda in the Western world providing online education programs in herbal medicine, nutrition and Ayurveda. He has over twenty five years of clinical and teaching experience and focuses on bridging the gap between the art and science of medicine.