Specialties
- Healthy aging
- Gut health
- Pediatric nutrition
- Vegan/vegetarian
- General health
- Heart health
- Help losing weight
- Pre or postnatal nutrition
- Diabetes or prediabetes
- Help gaining weight
- High cholesterol
- Gestational diabetes
- High blood pressure
- Prediabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
- PCOS
- Type 1 diabetes
- GERD / Acid reflux
- Weight loss medications
- Food allergies
Approaches
🍎
FODMAP🥘
Meal planning
Identifies as
- White
- Female
Cuisines / Diets
- Caribbean
- Gluten Free
- Greek
- Indian
- Italian
- Latin American
- Low Carb / Keto
- Mediterranean
- Middle Eastern
- Vegan
- Vegan
- Vegetarian
- Vegetarian
Minimum patient age
About Diana
A Certified Diabetes Care Education Specialist, a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist with a PhD (public health); a researcher. Works at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in the women’s health center, family medicine and pediatric endocrinology; was the Director of Ambulatory Nutrition and Diabetes Program at BronxCare Health System; an adjunct professor in the CUNY system; a Returned Peace Corp Volunteer; volunteered with Life For A Child; mentor to dietetic students; previous Consultant for Diabetes Empowerment International in Rwanda and Uganda; has >25 years of medical nutrition therapy and diabetes self-management experience that expands throughout pediatrics, adults and pregnant women.
Approach to care
Lifestyle Intervention Research based Empathetic to culinary traditions Compassion Culturally diverse
Your first session with Diana
To do an assessment and explain what to expect regarding information collecting over time and follow up
Location
📍 East Rockaway, New York
Education
Walden University - PhD (Public Health) New York University- MPH (International Community Health) Colorado State University - BS (Food Science & Nutrition) Cobleskill College - AAS (Food Science & Nutrition)
Hobbies
Hiking, running, biking, travel, writing, poetry
Licenses and Certifications
CDCES - Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist
CDN - Certified Dietitian-Nutritionist
MPH - Master of Public Health
PhD - Doctor of Philosophy
RDN - Registered Dietitian Nutritionist