EDUCATION
BS Nutrition and Dietetics, University of California at Berkeley
EXPERIENCE
Author, Diabetes Type 2 Complete Food Management Program Prima Publishing 11/01
Column Writer, diabetesincontrol.com, monthly nutrition column 1/02 - 12/02
Dietitian, UCSF Medical Center, Diabetes Clinic and Diabetes Teaching Center
Medical nutrition therapy counseling for individuals in adult and pediatric diabetes clinics, and the Diabetes and Pregnancy Program. Instructor for classes on diabetes self management for Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. Topics including carbohydrate management, weight control, exercise, and diet strategies for co-morbidities such as hyperlipidemia and hypertension. Mentor/instructor for the dietetic internship program. Faculty in the school of medicine: diabetes management classes for 2nd year medical students.
(10/94-present)
Dietitian, UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco, CA.
Inpatient dietitian for Medicine, Cardiac, and Obstetrics floors. TPN/PPN assessments, tube feedings, therapeutic diets, and patient diet education including diet therapy for diabetes, AIDS, CF, GI, renal and liver failure. Supervised dietetic technicians and trained dietetic interns.
(7/93-10/94)
Dietitian, UCSF Obstetrics Clinic, San Francisco, CA.
Nutritional intervention and counseling for obstetric patients, Special Care Obstetrics Clinic, Diabetes and Pregnancy Clinic, and postpartum counseling. Infant feeding guidelines.
(2/93-7/93)
Dietitian, UCSF Outpatient Nutrition Clinic, San Francisco, CA.
Counseling patients on medical nutrition therapies for weight management, hyperlipidemias,
HTN, renal, AIDS, cardiac and GI disorders. Trained dietetic interns.
(10/92-2/93)
Dietitian/Kitchen Supervisor, Marin General Hospital, Greenbrae, CA.
Inpatient dietitian coverage for all hospital units. Responsible for patient care plans, screening, counseling, charting. Supervised staff in production of patient and cafeteria meals.
(6/92-10/92)
Diet Technician, UCSF Millberry Union Nutrition Center, San Francisco, CA.
Computer assisted diet analysis. Body composition measurements.
(8/90-6/93, 20% time)
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- American Dietetic Association
- American Diabetes Association
- American Association of Diabetes Educators
Lectures and Presentations
- 7/93 Nutritional Management of Gestational Diabetes
UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 3/94 Gestational Diabetes/Nutritional Management of GDM
UCSF Inpatient Obstetric Nursing Staff
- 4/94 Nutritional Management of the AIDS Patient
San Francisco State University
Guest lecturer for Clinical Nutrition Class, 3-hour class
- 8/94 Nutritional Management of Gestational Diabetes
UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 8/94 Nutrition Assessment
Class and case studies for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 2/95 Medical Nutrition Therapy for Pediatric IDDM
UCSF Pediatric Endocrinology Noon Conference
- 2/95 Dietary Strategies to Minimize Your Risk of Stroke
Community Health Education Program sponsored by UCSF
- 3/95 Diabetes and Medical Nutrition Therapy
UCSF 4th year Medical Students, a two hour class
- 5/95 Advanced Dietary Update for Insulin Pump Therapy
UCSF Diabetes Teaching Center
A practical update for pump users.
- 6/95 Dietary Strategies to Minimize Your Risk of Stroke
Community Health Education Program sponsored by UCSF
- 7/95 Nutritional Management of Gestational Diabetes
UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 8/95 Treating Diabetes, Insulin and Oral Agents
UCSF Dietetic Interns, 2 hour class
- 10/95 Diabetes in the Nineties: Adult and Perinatal Management
UCSF Medicine and Surgery Inpatient Nursing Staff
- 10/95 Dietary Strategies to Minimize Your Risk of Stroke
Community Health Education Program sponsored by UCSF
- 10/95 Medical Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes
UCSF Diabetes Clinic Noon Conference
For MD’s, Endocrinologists, Residents, Nurses
- 12/95 Nutritional Assessment and Management of Diabetes Mellitus
UCSF 1st and 2nd year medicine residents, 2 hour class
- 2/96 Diet and IDDM: Counting Carbo’s for Kids
Article published in newsletter for California Dietetic Association
- 3/96 Diabetes and Medical Nutrition Therapy
UCSF 4th year Medical Students, a 2 hour class
- 4/96 Television News Interview
CBS News/7 On Your Side: regarding Sugar Alcohol
- 5/96 Home Blood Glucose Monitoring: What to do with the numbers
Dietary strategies for IDDM and NIDDM, case studies.
“Taking Control of Your Diabetes” An educational and motivational conference and health fair. Moscone Center, San Francisco, Ca.
- 8/96 Nutritional Management of Diabetes including Gestational Diabetes
2 hour class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 8/96 Carbohydrate Counting/Nutrition, and Managing Exercise with IDDM
3 Lectures at Bearskin Meadows Pediatric Diabetes Family Camp
for staff and families
- 10/96 Olestra: A Review of the New Low Calorie Food Additive
UCSF Diabetes Symposium, 250 attendees
- 11/96 1994 ADA Guidelines for Diabetes
Diabetes…Approaching the 21st Century. A continuing education seminar for the
nursing staff at St. Mary’s Hospital, San Francisco, CA
- 12/96 Nutritional management for children with diabetes
Family diabetes workshop, sponsored by Diabetic Youth Foundation
Mount Diablo Medical Center, CA.
- 3/97 IDDM: Nutritional Management in the school setting
Diabetes Inservice for Marin County Public School Nurses
- 4/97 Carbohydrate Counting
Taking Control of your Diabetes ’97
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA.
- 5/97 A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Care of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes the
Pharmacist’s Role on the Team
Seminar for 250 pharmacists, lecturer for nutritional management principles
- 8/97 Carbohydrate Counting/Nutrition, and Managing Exercise with IDDM
3 Lectures at Bearskin Meadows Pediatric Diabetes Family Camp for staff and families
- 9/97 Nutritional Management of Diabetes including Gestational Diabetes
2 hour class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 9/97 Treating Diabetes; Insulin and Oral Agents
2 hour Pharmacology class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 11/97 Diabetes and the Cardiovascular Patient Nutritional management for diabetic patients with cardiovascular risk factors.
Seminar lecture for 100 Nurses, and dietitians at St. Mary’s Hospital, SF, CA
- 1/98 Diet Therapy for Diabetes
Management for Complications of Diabetes
UCSF Diabetes Symposium, 300 attendees
- 6/98 Carbohydrate Counting, Safe Exercise with IDDM, Preventing Ketones and Delayed
Low Blood Sugar after Exercise, and Precautions of ETOH
Staff training for Bearskin Meadows Pediatric Diabetes Camp, 60 attendees
- 8/98 Carbohydrate Counting/Nutrition, and Managing Exercise with IDDM
Precautions about Alcohol, Treating Hypoglycemia
6 Lectures at Bearskin Meadows Pediatric Diabetes Family Camp for staff and 30 families
- 9/98 Nutritional Management of Diabetes including Gestational Diabetes
2 hour class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 9/98 Emerging Perspectives in the Primary Care Management of Type 2 Diabetes
Round table meeting with Scientific Exchange Inc. to develop educational activities for family practitioners who care for patients with Type 2 diabetes.
- 10/98 Television News Interview
ABC Dr Dean Edell regarding Olestra synthetic fat
- 11/98 Treating Diabetes; Insulin and Oral Agents
2 hour Pharmacology class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 11/98 Exercise and Type 2 Diabetes
Consultant for developing booklet for national distribution by Krames Staywell Co.
- 12/98 Understanding Diabetes; pathophysiology, pharmacology, medical nutrition therapy
1 hour class for UCSF Stanford Diet Technicians
- 1/99 Nutritional Management for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes/the role of the RD, CDE
Lecture for UCSF Endocrine Fellows
- 8/99 Nutritional Management of Diabetes including Gestational Diabetes
2 hour class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 8/99 Carbohydrate Counting/Nutrition, and Managing Exercise with IDDM
2 Lectures at Bearskin Meadows Pediatric Diabetes Family Camp for staff and families
- 9/99 Treating Diabetes; Insulin and Oral Agents
2 hour Pharmacology class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 10/99 Nutrition Management of the Pediatric Patient with Diabetes
What the Nurse Needs to Know
1 hour Lecture for UCSF Inpatient Pediatric Nursing Staff
- 11/99 Medical Nutrition Therapy for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus and
Nutritional Treatment for Associated Co-Morbidities
1 hour lecture for UCSF pharmacy, nursing and medical students
- 11/99 Diabetes and Children
Host for 1 hour live chat for web-site Mediconsult.com
Answering questions pertaining to childhood diabetes.
- 2/00 Nutrition Management of the Pediatric Patient with Diabetes
What the Nurse Needs to Know
1 hour Lecture for UCSF Inpatient Pediatric Nursing Staff
- 8/01 Nutritional Management of Diabetes including Gestational Diabetes
2 hour class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 9/01 Treating Diabetes; Insulin and Oral Agents
2 hour Pharmacology class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 3/02 Nutritional Management of Type 2 Diabetes for Seniors
San Francisco Jewish Center
- 4/02 Medical Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes
1 hour lecture for 2nd year medical students at UCSF Medical School
- 4/02 Self Blood Glucose Monitoring Inservice
1 hour presentation/workshop for Senior Dietitians at UCSF
- 6/02 Kids get Type 2, too
1 hour lecture for 65 Kaiser diabetes educators at Clairmont Hotel, Berkeley
- 8/02 Nutritional Management of Diabetes including Gestational Diabetes
2 hour class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 9/02 Treating Diabetes; Insulin and Oral Agents
2 hour Pharmacology class for UCSF Dietetic Interns
- 11/02 Type 1 Diabetes: Insulin kinetics and Nutritional Management
2 hour lecture for 100 second year medical students at UCSF School of Medicine.
- 12/02 Type 2 Diabetes: Nutritional Management for diabetes and its co-morbidities.
2 hour lecture for 100 second year medical students at UCSF School of Medicine.
- 3/03 Nutritional Management for Gestational Diabetes
2 hour lecture for the San Francisco WIC program dietitians.
- 03/03 ADA Symposium: Nutritional Management of Diabetes and its complications.
Keynote speaker for the annual diabetes symposium in Marin County. 2 hour lecture. 100 attendees in the general audience.
Numerous health care providers and diabetes-related venders also attended.
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