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San Francisco Bay Area

United States

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Virta is an online specialty medical clinic that reverses type 2 diabetes safely and sustainably, without the risks, costs, or side effects of medications or surgery. Our innovations in nutritional biochemistry, data science and digital tools combined with our clinical expertise are shifting the diabetes treatment paradigm from management to reversal. Our mission - to reverse type 2 diabetes in 100 million people by 2025. Learn more about us, including our current team, advisors and investors, at virtahealth.com/about.

Sacramento, California Area

Provide instruction for students in Medical Nutrition Therapy and Foodservice Management as part of American River College's Dietary Manager certification.

Sacramento, California Area

• Provide Medical Nutrition Therapy to adult cancer patient population with varying diagnoses and stages of treatment, often in combination with the management of chronic diseases.• Optimize cancer patient nutrition status minimizing malnutrition risk in effort to sustain the duration of treatment, avoid hospitalization and optimize treatment outcomes.• Provide nutrition support as part of the Supportive Care Oncology team to better serve cancer patients at various stages of treatment and survivorship. • Act as a nutrition resource to the Cancer Care Network, a group of community based cancer centers in the northern California region, to optimize community outreach.• Provide nutrition support as it relates to research projects within the Cancer Center and the School of Nursing.• Precept 6 Dietetic Interns annually and support UCD undergraduate interns quarterly.

Sacramento, California Area

• Professional and administrative responsibility to plan, organize, direct and evaluate the patient food service operations in the UCDHS main hospital, including trayline, potroom, dishroom and host. Oversee the Senior Dietitian, Supervisor in charge of the diet office, dietetic assistants and the diet kitchen.• Ensure established programs meet department goals, accreditation, requirements and patient needs; selects, trains, supervises and evaluates the performance of food service personnel – develops, implements and evaluates food service policies, procedures and standards.• Monitor food production and service to ensure conformance to nutritional and quality standards for patient and customer acceptance.• Precept 6 Dietetic Interns annually and support UCD undergraduate interns quarterly.

Sacramento And Davis Areas

Provided Medical Nutrition Therapy to 5 outpatient clinics including family practice, internal medicine, Wound Clinic, ALS, numerous Primary Care Clinics and Sports Medicine.

Sacramento, California Area

Provided sports nutrition guidance to athletes of various age and caliber.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Nutritional Biology

R.D., Registered Dietitian

Bachelor'S Degree, Biologcial Science With An Emphasis In Physiology