Nutrition
Counselor
Debi
is a registered and licensed dietitian in Maryland. She is certified
in adult weight management. Debi received her Masters in Human Nutrition
from Finch University at the Chicago Medical School. Debi obtained
her undergraduate degree in Nutrition and dietetics from Montclair
State College in NJ as well as her B.S. in Business Administration
from Seton Hall University in NJ. She has extensive nutrition and
management experience built over the past decade in areas such as
obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. Currently as a life
style coach, Debi teaches group classes on physical activity, healthy
eating and stress management. Debi has an int est in the prevention
of obesity in children. She has been working actively to incorporate
the health programs in the public school system by sitting on the
Maryland Nutrition and Physical Activity School Implementation Workgroup.
As well, she taught nutrition, cooking and yoga classes to young
children at an innercity school.
Debi worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital, University of Maryland Medical
Systems and at the Maryland Athletic Club. Most recently, she ha
sbeen a research dietician involved in clinical trials with obesity
and diabetes at Johns Hopkins University.