Alison Megliola, Ms, Rd, Cdces Email & Phone Number

Santa Monica, CA, US

Santa Monica, California, United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Counsel participants on nutrition, fitness, and wellbeing through group discussions and 1:1 interactions.
• Lead coaches toward best practices as Professional Learning Community Leader.
• Develop participant content as member of Coach Nutrition Committee.
• Write participant nutrition materials in collaboration with Product.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Perform nutritional assessments and provide disease-specific medical nutritional therapy for residents in many specialty areas; including endocrinology, renal, oncology, and gastroenterology.
• Provide individual and group nutrition counseling sessions; for example, “Diabetes Meal Planning,” pre-diabetes counseling, managing blood sugar, and weight gain or weight loss.
• Participate in skilled nursing, memory care, assisted living and transitional housing multidisciplinary team meetings; report on the nutritional status of each resident to the medical team and family members.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Completed over 1200 required supervised practice hours at a patient-centered and evidence-based hospital. Comprehensive program included inpatient and outpatient rotations; as well as rotations at Aids Project LA, A.
• Provided 1:1 nutrition counseling, utilizing motivational interviewing skills, in areas such as weight management, diabetes, oncology, obesity, hypertension, kidney disease, malnutrition, and cardiovascular disease in.
• Performed nutritional assessments and provided disease-specific medical nutritional therapy for inpatients in many specialty areas; including renal, endocrinology, gastroenterology, oncology, intensive care, cardiac.
• Participated in multidisciplinary rounds and meetings; reported on the nutritional status of inpatients, dialysis patients and community living/hospice patients to hospital staff.
• Developed and conducted in-service education to physicians and nurses regarding albumin and nutritional status, and tube feeding formulas and calculations.

New York, NY

Assisted in researching and writing a manuscript on the association between immigration visa status and BMI. Published in the American Journal of Health Promotion (December 2016).Yeh, M. C., Parikh, N. S., Megliola, A. E., & Kelvin, E. A. (2016). Immigration status, visa types, and body weight among new immigrants in the United States. American Journal of.

• Successfully coordinated numerous site visits to 16 Hospital Referral Regions (HRR) for a CMS contract.
• Led background research for various projects; including HRRs and autism legislation.

Greater New York City Area

• Provided technical assistance in implementing NYC Food Standards to over 30 NYC hospitals as part of the Healthy Hospital Food Initiative.
• Participated in implementation meetings with hospital staff; including Directors of Food and Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition Managers, Cafeteria and Retail Managers, and Chefs.
• Reviewed hospital patient menus, cafeteria menus, and vending machines, and helped formulate recommendations to hospital partners working to implement over 60 food and beverage policies.
• Performed nutrition analyses using NutriBase software and prepared reports for external circulation.
• Conducted literature reviews, created comparison analyses of other national food standards, provided research assistance, and created databases of compliant food items.

New York, NY

• Created personalized weekly meal plans and introductory letters for clients to help guide them through lifestyle changes for better health.
• Wrote and edited newsletters, magazine articles, and television segments related to current nutrition research and trends.
• Conducted background research in peer-reviewed journals for all media.

Washington, DC

• Conducted research on health policy issues and initiatives related to accountable care organizations and performance measurements in health care reform.
• Organized and coordinated events and meetings; including the quarterly meetings for the Quality Alliance Steering Committee, involving numerous senior public and private sector health care policy leaders.

Washington, DC

• Reported on congressional hearings on prevention, health reform, Medicaid, Medicare, and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issues
• Participated in FDA briefing calls and summarized key points for senior staff; some topics included fish mercury levels, melamine, and the FDA’s guidance on diabetes drug development

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Monitored Congressional hearings on diabetes-related legislation.
• Drafted statements of support for proposed legislation.
• Organized and managed functions and political action committee events.
• Supported the directors of government affairs.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Nutrition, 4.0 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Nutrition Club, Secretary

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Communication And Electronic Media, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Field Hockey Co-Captain