In Memoriam: Tricia McCauley, M.S., Herbalist and Nutritionist
In Memoriam: Tricia McCauley, M.S., Herbalist and Nutritionist (February 25, 1970 – December 25, 2016)
by Tara Thomas
On a Monday in late December, herbalist and nutritionist Tricia McCauley stepped inside the dispensary at the Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH). Radiant and bright-eyed, she looked up at the jars of medicinal herbs lining the shelves. She and dispensary manager Nicole Rubin spent a few minutes musing on the stinkiness of Valerian root, and Tricia picked up an order for a client that she planned to hand deliver.
She was there that day, mentoring graduate students in the MUIH’s Nutrition and Integrative Health Student Clinic – there for the last time, it would turn out, in the same clinic where in 2009 she herself stepped into clinical practice en route to earning her Masters in Herbal Medicine and becoming a licensed nutritionist.
Reflections on Tricia’s time as a student clinician and mentor were consistent. Her colleagues and students at MUIH, and in her D.C. community, were unanimous that she was kind, poised, articulate, organized, passionate, forthright and witty…oh so delightfully witty...
In Memoriam: Tricia McCauley, M.S.,
Herbalist and Nutritionist
(February 25, 1970 – December 25, 2016)
by Tara Thomas
On a Monday in late December, herbalist and nutritionist Tricia McCauley stepped inside the dispensary at the Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH). Radiant and bright-eyed, she looked up at the jars of medicinal herbs lining the shelves. She and dispensary manager Nicole Rubin spent a few minutes musing on the stinkiness of Valerian root, and Tricia picked up an order for a client that she planned to hand deliver.
She was there that day, mentoring graduate students in the MUIH’s Nutrition and Integrative Health Student Clinic – there for the last time, it would turn out, in the same clinic where in 2009 she herself stepped into clinical practice en route to earning her Masters in Herbal Medicine and becoming a licensed nutritionist.
Reflections on Tricia’s time as a student clinician and mentor were consistent. Her colleagues and students at MUIH, and in her D.C. community, were unanimous that she was kind, poised, articulate, organized, passionate, forthright and witty…oh so delightfully witty...
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