Veronica Bersani, Mph, Ms, Rdn, Ldn Email and Phone Number

Nutrition Consultant for various corporate and community organizations; as well as medical practices.-On-site and telehealth, one-on-one nutrition counseling-Healthy cooking classes-Nutrition education seminarsAreas of Practice: Integrative Nutrition, Improving health behaviors, Chronic Diseases (CKD, T2DM, HTN), Oncology, Food Allergies/Intolerances, Gastrointestinal and Autoimmune Disorders, Weight Management and Special Diets.Website:www.cookmehealthy.com

Nutrition Counseling Pre-/Post- Bariatric Surgery-Perform nutritional assessments/reassessments for patients, documenting in patient’s medical record -according to PHCS standards. -Evaluate each patient’s nutritional status, degree of nutritional risk and potential problems, making recommendations and determining optimal plan of care.-Evaluate therapeutic goals for relevancy and attainability. -Provide counseling and education to help patients overcome barriers and create sustainable, healthy lifestyle and eating habits. -Create patient educational material and handouts to supplement patient learning.-Deliver healthy cooking demonstrations.

Construct and present evidence-based health and nutrition seminars to various organizations, including Day&Zimmerman, Urban Engineers, Independence Blue Cross, Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW), Obermayer, Drucker Scaccetti, Fox Runs Brands, and other Philadelphia organizations. Some topics include: Food/Mood Connection, Allergies vs. Intolerances, Eating Behaviors and Mindful Eating, Smart Shopping-Healthy Eating, Functional Foods-Healing & Disease Management, Nutrition & Aging, Nutrition & HIV, Nutrition & Athletic Performance, Food Safety & Security.Perform weekly healthy cooking demonstrations teaching sustainable skills related to cooking methods, food modification, substitution, cost savings and sourcing healthy ingredients.

Provide optimum nutritional care for in-patients and out-patients in assigned areas, following methods and procedures established to ensure optimal patient care.Assess nutritional needs; develops and implements nutritional care plans; evaluates and reports results appropriately. Coordinates the nutritional care of assigned patients.

Use a personalized approach to health and healing through a variety of nutrition therapies to prevent and treat disease through education and counseling.Includes: Heart Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease, Diabetes, Obesity, Gastrointestinal Problems, Endocrine & Autoimmune Disorders, Inflammation

Project Director for several grant-funded, behavior-based, clinical research aimed to prevent and treat obesity; under supervision of primary investigator (PI), Sharon Herring, MD, MPH. Responsible for planning and managing all aspects of our research studies; including recruitment, scheduling, enrollment, budgeting, procurement, intervention content creation, sleep scoring, IRB submissions, data efficacy, staff meetings, contractors and hiring/supervision of multiple interns and employees.Health Coach/Interventionist (weight management) ) for behavior-based, clinical research studies aimed to treat and prevent obesity through the use of proven behavior modification models.

Coordinated all aspects of a National Institutes of Health (NIH) - funded, clinical trial aimed to reduce sedentary behaviors in minority youth; including recruitment, qualitative and quantitative data analyses, anthropometric assessments and creation of study materials. Collaborated with team to prepare final study manuscript for publication submission.

Provided nutritional counseling to primary care and specialty patients, focusing on preventative health, weight management, sports nutrition and HIV & chronic disease nutrition management (via NCP).

Responsible for overall management, marketing and business development of the Rossi Wellness Center; including the center’s three departments: Family and Specialty Practice, Anti-Aging and Aesthetics, and Nutrition and Weight Management.-Developed marketing plans in the areas of General Medicine, HIV and Infectious Disease care, Anti-Aging, Aesthetics, Massage Therapy, Psychotherapy and Nutrition and Weight Management.-Created, managed and implemented all internet marketing materials for sustaining and recruiting new patients, including social media (Facebook) and email marketing (Constant Contacts).

Responsible for selling commercial packaging and printed component services in Northeast Region of the United States and Canada. Attained all fiscal year revenue targets on current business as well as new business. Prepared estimate requests, design requests and customer quotations. Tracked sales activities using Salesforce.com.

Gathered and analyzed market and financial data in order to identify and qualify new business opportunities for oral, topical, sterile and packaging technologies. Obtained and managed customer accounts by preparing and presenting company presentations and quotations to perspective customers. Assist Vice President of Business Development with fiscal year budget preparations. Managed our internal Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Database. Coordinated with upper management to forecast monthly 18 month basis.

Responsible for overall management, coordination and product launch of Catalent’s patented DelPouch Technology for current and new customers. Performed all tasks associated with the scheduling of customer orders, planning and procurement of all components and paperwork necessary to complete packaging orders.