Lara Zakaria

Dr. Lara Zakaria is a pharmacist and nutritionist with a focus on implementing solutions for functional medicine and personalized nutrition. A graduate of the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy at Rutgers University (BSpharm) and the University of Colorado Skaggs School of Pharmacy (PharmD), she spent 20 years in community pharmacy practice. She earned a Master of Science in Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport and subsequently qualified as a certified nutrition specialist (CNS) as well as an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP). Dr. Zakaria’s practice emphasizes a multi-disciplinary approach, working directly with patients and developing tools for wider accessibility to integrative medicine. She is also a faculty member at George Washington University, Sonoran University, and Northwestern Health Sciences University, where she passionately educates on gut health and the prevention and reversal of metabolic, allergic, and autoimmune diseases.