Nutrition Working Group
Mission Statement:
To advance and promote healthy dietary patterns to preserve and improve cardiovascular health across diverse populations.
Danielle Belardo MD (Committee Co-Chair)
Cardiologist
Co-Director of the Department of Research and Education
Institute of Plant-Based Medicine
Robert Ostfeld, MD, MSc, FACC (Committee Co-Chair)
Professor of Medicine
Director, Preventive Cardiology
Montefiore Health System
Monica Aggarwal, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
University of Florida
Kathleen Allen, MS, RD
Medical & Business Student
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Tom Barringer III, MD
Clinical Lipidologist
Co-Medical Director
Novant Health Heart & Vascular Institute
Ron Blankstein, MD, FASPC
Associate Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Program
Director, Cardiac Computed Tomography
Co-Director, Cardiovascular Imaging Training Program
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Rachel M Bond MD, FACC
System Director, Women's Heart Health
Dignity Health, Arizona
Assistant Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Creighton University School of Medicine
Tiffany Brazile, MD
Internal Medicine Resident; Post-Doctoral Research Fellow
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, FACC, FAHA, FASPC, FNLA
Professor of Medicine
Tulane University School of Medicine
Andrew Freeman, MD
Director of Cardiovascular Prevention and Wellness
National Jewish Health
Martha Gulati, MD, MS FACC, FAHA, FASPC
CardioSmart for the American College of Cardiology
President-Elect American Society for Preventive Cardiology
Meghana Halkar, MBBS
Consultant Physician
Mayo Clinic – Jacksonville
Kevin Hall, PhD
Section Chief: Integrative Physiology Section, Laboratory of Biological Modeling
National Institute of Health
The National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
Health Information Center
Nicole Harkin, MD, FACC
Founder and Cardiologist
Whole Heart Cardiology
Carol Kirkpatrick, PhD, MPH, RDN, LD, CLS
Director and Clinical Associate Professor
Idaho State University
Kevin C. Klatt, RD, PhD
Postdoctoral Associate
Children's Nutrition Research Center
Baylor College of Medicine
Kyla M. Lara-Breitinger, MD
4th Year Preventive Cardiology Fellow
Mayo Clinic
Michelle McMacken, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Director, Plant-Based Lifestyle Medicine Program
Director, Adult Weight Management Program
Attending Physician, Adult Primary Care Center
NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
Erin Michos, MD, MHS, FASPC
Director of Women’s Cardiovascular Health
Associate Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins Medicine
Karl Nadolsky, DO FACE
Diplomate, American Board of Obesity Medicine
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, MSU College of Human Medicine
SHMG Endocrinology
Chair, American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists’ Obesity & Nutrition Disease State Network
Spencer Nadolsky, DO
Chief Physician, Obesity Specialist, Lipidologist
Renaissance Periodization
Pradeep Natarajan, MD, MMSc
Director of Preventive Cardiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
Renee Paro, MD
Pediatric Cardiologist
Palo Alto Medical Foundation
Annas Rahman
Internal Medicine Resident
Rush University Medical College
Verity Ramirez, MD
Cardiologist
Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute
Koushik Reddy, MD
Director, Interventional Cardiology
James A. Haley VA Medical Center
Assistant Professor
University of South Florida
Stephanie Ross, MA, CHES, NBC-HWC
Owner
Crown Wellness Coaching, LLC
Michelle Routhenstein, MS, RD, CDE, CDN
Owner, Entirely Nourished
CMO, Oben Health
Farhad Saeedi
Medical Student and Research Assistant
Birjand University of Medical Sciences
Konrad Sawicki, MD, PhD
Cardiovascular Disease Fellow
Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Geeta Sikand, MA, RDN, FAND, CDE, CLS, FNLA
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine in Cardiology
Director of Nutrition, Preventive Cardiology Program
University of California Irvine School of Medicine
Deirdre K. Tobias, ScD
Assistant Professor, Harvard Medical School
Associate Epidemiologist, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Shreyas Venkataraman, MD
Resident Doctor
Washington University School of
Medicine
Nutrition Working Group Journal Club Archives
Low-carbohydrate vegan diets in diabetes for weight loss and sustainability: a randomized controlled trial
November 2022 | Kevin Klatt, PhD, RD