A decade in adolescent nutrition
I studied clinical nutrition at UC Davis, completed my master's degree and dietetic internship at the University of Memphis, and trained at Stanford Health Care and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford. As a clinical pediatric dietitian at Stanford Children's Health, I served as the primary dietitian for the Comprehensive Care Program, working alongside national leaders in Family-Based Treatment and adolescent eating disorder medicine. It was there that I developed the ARFID feeding protocol for the eating disorder inpatient unit.
In 2019 I joined The Healthy Teen Project, an eating disorder treatment program for adolescents in the Bay Area, and became its Director of Nutrition in 2022. I've cared for hundreds of teens through partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient treatment, and I've sat with hundreds of parents in the hardest season of their family's life. In 2020 I opened my own telehealth practice, My Nutrition Ally, and I am now focused on it full time.
I also contribute to the science. I was part of the research team studying higher-calorie refeeding for anorexia nervosa, published in JAMA Pediatrics and Pediatrics, work that has changed how hospitals renourish young patients. I co-edited Springer's clinical handbook on ARFID in adolescents, and I speak regularly at professional conferences on ARFID nutrition care.
