• Nutrition Consultations • Gestational Diabetes Sweet Success Clinical Educator• Diabetes prevention (DPP) Full-Plus CDC Program Coordinator and facilitator• Weight loss, diabetes, cardiovascular and lifestyle medicine specialty

• Creative role leveraging skills and experience to lead development of an innovative program to provide engagement and motivation for over 300 chronic disease management patients using a virtual platform.• Implemented programs using structured education, tracking with patient generated health data and peer group interaction. • Deployed lifestyle-change virtual programs for patients with Hypertension and Diabetes with positive health outcomes and 96% retention rate within Sutter Health one of the USA’s largest not-for -profit integrated delivery systems.• Developed approach for the application of the virtual class model to other topics and learning areas.

• Created innovative programs to increase engagement, retention, patient satisfaction, and outcomes. • Partnered with hundreds of patients to reduce cardiovascular risk, improve gastrointestinal health, prediabetes, glycemic control and overall wellness.• Worked directly with over 1000 clients in both Nutrition Services and medically supervised weight loss programs facilitating classes and coaching patients to improve chronic disease management.• Created new materials and processes utilized by entire region teaching CDC year-long diabetes prevention program.• Spearheaded Mindful Eating tele-webinars for over 500 employees and published new materials for online forum reaching thousands on Mediterranean Diet and Diet Comparisons.

Content development and innovation for health tech startups Creation and management of virtual coaching platforms

• Developed and led classes for over 70 undergraduate/graduate students in Nutrition Education.• Implemented innovative strategies to increase student learning and engagement.

• Created new processes and programs for hundreds of clients enrolled in Slim in 7 (weight loss) programs.• Developed and rolled out interactive classes, engagement materials, innovative practices for participant success.

• Developed and led innovative nutrition program for over 900 4th and 5th graders, including special needs classes in Santa Clara County in 8- 10 week sessions.• Implemented $200,000 grant to support wellness policies in local elementary schools, managed budget, conducted research, proving a sustainable model that attracted company funding to continue.• Created, fun, engaging, and revolutionary activities for after-school nutrition programs and health fairs.• Developed objective research criteria that effectively demonstrated a marked increase in knowledge and behavioral outcome.