Meet our Team

Amber Antonopoulos

Critical Care
Heart and lung transplant

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Cait Richards

Clinical Nutrition Manager

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Carmen Castro

General Medicine

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Cathy Lee

General Medicine

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Chloe Sasakado

Liver,kidney,pancreas and auto islet cell transplant

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Emily Brumsted

Critical care
General surgery

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Greg Chin

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Isabelle Wlodkowski

Oncology

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Julia Sutton

General Medicine

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Julius Navarro

Dialysis

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Kaitlyn Attiga

Surgical oncology
Obstetrics

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Liz Sullivan

Clinical nutrition manager
Dietetic internship director
Adult Behavioral health

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Megan Cooper

General Medicine

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Rene Wah

General medicine

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Shannon Lee

Neurosciences
Critical care

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Siya Luo

General medicine

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Yishan Huang

Heart and lung transplant
Cardiovascula thoracic surgery

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Adriana Maza

Dialysis

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Angie Fong

Preventive Cardiology

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Carly Meng

Clinical Nutrition Manager

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Kathy Pariani

Liver Transplant

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Kristi Cheng

Nephrology
Kidney transplant
Cystic fibrosis

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Mary Ellen DiPaola

Pre-kidney transplant
Bariatric surgery
Women's health

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Melissa Xia

Weight management

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Neha Shah

Inflamatory bowel disease
Ostomy
Short bowel syndrome

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Publications and Presentations

Limketkai, B. N., Godoy-Brewer, G., Parian, A. M., Noorian, S., Krishna, M., Shah, N. D., ... & Mullin, G. E. (2022). Dietary interventions for the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases: an updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
Zanley, E.,* Shah, N. D.,* Craig, C., Lau, J. N., Rivas, H., & McLaughlin, T. (2020). Guidelines for gastrostomy tube placement and enteral nutrition in patients with severe, refractory hypoglycemia after gastric bypass. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases.
Farooqui, M. T., Khan, M. A., Cholankeril, G., Khan, Z., Abdul, M. K. M., Li, A. A., Shah, N., Wu, L., Haq, K., Solanki, S., Kim, D., Ahmed, A. (2019). Marijuana is not associated with progression of hepatic fibrosis in liver disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis. European journal of gastroenterology & hepatology, 31(2), 149.
Limketkai, B. N., Sepulveda, R., Hing, T., Shah, N. D., Choe, M., Limsui, D., & Shah, S. (2017). Prevalence and factors associated with gluten sensitivity in inflammatory bowel disease. Scandinavian journal of gastroenterology, 1-5.
Fansiwala, K., Shah, N.D., McNulty, K., Kwaan, M., Limketkai, B.N. (2023). Use of Oral Diet and Nutrition Support in Management of Stricturing and Fistulizing Crohn's Disease Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 1-14.
Roberts, K., Shah, N. D., Parrish, C. R., & Wall, E. (2023). Navigating nutrition and hydration care in the adult patient with short bowel syndrome. Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 38, S59-S75.
Shah, N. D., Krupinski, E. A., Bernard, J., & Moyer, M. F. (2021). The evolution and utilization of telehealth in ambulatory nutrition practice. Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 36(4), 739-749.
Limketkai, B. N., LeBrett, W., Lin, L., & Shah, N. D. (2020). Nutritional approaches for gastroparesis. The Lancet Gastroenterology & Hepatology, 5(11), 1017-1026.
Weber, A. T., Shah, N. D., Sauk, J., & Limketkai, B. N. (2019). Popular Diet Trends for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Claims and Evidence. Current treatment options in gastroenterology, 17(4), 564-576.
Limketkai, B. N., Shah, N. D., Sheikh, G. N., & Allen, K. (2019). Classifying enteral nutrition: tailored for clinical practice. Current gastroenterology reports, 21(9), 1-7.
Choe, M., Shah, N. D., Regalia, K., Limketkai, B.N. (2019). Intestinal Dysmotility Mimicking Obstruction in Patients with Prior Bowel Resection Surgery. Gastroenterology Nursing, 42 (1): 95-100.
Limketkai, B.N., Choe, M., Patel, S, Shah, N. D., Medici, V (2017). Nutritional Risk Factors in the Pathogenesis of Parenteral Nutrition-Associated Liver Disease. Current Nutrition Reports 6 (3): 281-290.
Limketkai, B. N., Parian, A. M., Shah, N. D., & Colombel, J. F. (2015). Short Bowel Syndrome and Intestinal Failure in Crohn's Disease. Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, 22(5), 1209-1218.
Shah, N. D., Parian, A.M., Mullin, G.E., & Limketkai, B.N. (2015). Oral diets and nutrition support for inflammatory bowel disease: What is the evidence? Nutrition in Clinical Practice, 30(4), 462 –473.
Shah N. D., Limketkai, B.N., Nutrition Management for Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Outpatient Nutrition Care and Home Nutrition Support (in press).
Shah N. D., Stroebe, M. (2018). Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition: Considerations for the Intestinal and Multi-Visceral Transplant Patient. Sher Y., Maldonado, J. The Psychosocial Care of the End-Stage Disease and Transplant Patients. Springer.
Cultural Competence in Diet and IBD (Cedars-Sinai Advanced DIET IBD Program) 9/2023
Optimizing Care for South Asians with IBD in the Mainland and Beyond (South Asian IBD Alliance Symposium at Digestive Disease Week) 5/2023
Nutrition Management for NAFLD (Northern CA Society for Clinical Gastroenterology) 4/2023
Cultural Perspectives for Diet in IBD (Crohn’s and Colitis Congress with the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation and the American Gastroenterological Association) 1/2023
Nutrition Management of Parenteral Nutrition Associated Liver Disease (American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Virginia Chapter) 10/2022
Nutrition Management of Ostomies (Food: The Main Course via Michigan Medicine) 9/2022
Diet and Nutrition for IBD (Northern CA Society for Clinical Gastroenterology Symposium) 6/2022
A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Nutrition in Difficult GI Cases (Nutrition Science and Practice Conference with American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition) 3/2022
Tips for the Indian Diet in IBD (IBD Update with South Asian IBD Alliance/Yashoda Hospitals) 3/2022
Nutrition: Soup to Nuts (Crohn’s and Colitis Congress with Crohn's and Colitis Foundation and American Gastroenterological Association) 1/2022
Practical Applications to Diet and Nutrition for IBD (Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation) 1/2022
Approaches to Treatment and Management for NAFLD and IFALD (Digestive Disease Nutrition Series with Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics) 11/2020
Practical Approaches to SBS Management (Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo with Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics) 10/2019

Talya Kurzion

Diabetes
Weight management
Hyperlipidemia

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Alyson Crowley

General pediatrics

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Beth Saunders

Adolescent health
Eating disorders

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Callie Austin

General pediatrics

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Cat Marks

Pediatric cardiology

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Clara Deley

Cardiology

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Jamie Lok Chu

General pediatrics

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Jennifer Fong

General pediatrics

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Maria Hetherton

Neonatology
Pediatric critical care

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Publications and Presentations

Tiny Babies: Nutrition Stepping Stones to Better Growth Advances in Neonatal and Pediatric Nutrition; San Diego, CA 9/10/2019
Hot Topics in Neonatal Nutrition National Association of Neonatal Nurses, Northern California Chapter; Napa, CA; 8/2019
Nutrition for the Low Birth Weight Infant: It’s All About Growth Neonatal Outreach Program; Monterey, CA February 2020
Hetherton, Maria. Hypoxic Ischemic Encephalopathy (HIE) and Nutrition; Guideline: Nutrition for Infants with HIE who are being medically treated with cooling (UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital) ONNews Spring/Summer 2011.
Cortes RA, Keller RL, Townsend T, Harrison MR, Farmer DL, Lee H, Piecuch RE, Leonard CH, Hetherton M, Bisgaard R, & Nobuhara KK. Survival of severe congenital diaphragmatic hernia has morbid consequences J Pediatric Surgery 2005;40:36-46. PMID: 15868556 DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2004.09.037
Hetherton, M. The NoPro Study-Optimizing Nutrient Delivery in the Intensive Care Nursery. ONNews. Spring 2003.
Cronin, M., Karvonen K., Evans, M., Hetherton, M., Gregory, C., Johnson, C., Chan, J., Rogers, E., Kramer, K. (2023, August 29) Using Equity Focused QI to Address Racial Inequities in Breastmilk Provision and Necrotizing Enterocolitis in as Single Center NICU. NEC Society, San Diego, CA.
Evans, M., Hetherton, M., Chan, J., Rogers, E., Kramer, K. (2023, September 8&9) Grow Babies, Grow!. Vermont Oxford Network, Chicago, IL.
Hetherton, M., Evans, M., Chan, J., Rogers, MD., Kramer, K. (2022, May) Grow Babies, Grow!. UCSF Health Symposium, San Francisco, CA.
Hetherton, M. (2007, April) Improving Calcium and Phosphorus Intake of the Extremely Low Birth Weight (ELBW) Infant; California Dietetic Association meeting, Oakland, CA.
Rohovit, R., Shimotake, J., Vu, L., Gantz, J., Chun-Uba, N., Crennan, M., Hetherton, M., Kobza, V., Mcfarland, C., Cannon, K. (2017, October) Improving length of time to full oral feeds to decrease LOS in surgical babies in the ICN, UCSF Health. San Francisco, CA.