Meet Kelly Issokson, RD!

This week we talked to Kelly Issokson, RD! Kelly is the Clinical Nutrition Coordinator at the F. Widjaja Foundation Inflammatory Bowel Diseases Institute at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles, California. Kelly provides nutrition therapy to children and adults in the IBD Institute, the Nutrition & Integrative IBD Subspecialty Clinic. She is the Course Director and Apprenticeship Director of the newly minted Cedars-Sinai Advanced Dietary IBD Education and Training (DIET) Program. Her research focus is on the nutritional optimization of surgical patients with IBD. We talked to her about this new provider training program and why it's so important. We discussed what patients can do to optimize their nutrition if they're preparing for surgery and what labs to ask for in general to get an idea of your nutrition status. We also talked about the nutrition care pathway that Kelly helped research and write for providers to track their patients nutrition status and to check for malnutrition and also her volunteer work doing advocacy on access to nutrition counseling services and medical food. 

Links: 

• Nutrition resources for healthcare providers- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation 
• Get involved with IBD advocacy- Crohn's & Colitis Foundation 
• Link to find Stacey Collins, RD- IBD specialist in private practice- friend of the show and Kelly Issokson! 

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