At UCSF Health, we excel in evidence-based care for patients admitted to our inpatient units at Parnassus, Mission Bay, and Mount Zion hospitals as well as patients seen in our outpatient clinics throughout the Bay Area. Our team of Registered Dietitians (RDs) are food and nutrition experts who meet the credentialing requirements of Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). All RDs have a minimum of a bachelor's degree in dietetics with completed internships and many of them have a graduate degrees and specialty certifications.
Meet our current team.

Amber Antonopoulos
- Critical Care
- Heart and lung transplant

Cait Richards
- Clinical Nutrition Manager

Chloe Sasakado
- Liver,kidney,pancreas and auto islet cell transplant

Emily Brumsted
- Critical care
- General surgery

Isabelle Wlodkowski
- Oncology

Kaitlyn Attiga
- Surgical oncology
- Obstetrics

Liz Sullivan
- Clinical nutrition manager
- Dietetic internship director
- Adult Behavioral health

Rene Wah
- General medicine

Shannon Lee
- Neurosciences
- Critical care

Siya Luo
- General medicine

Yishan Huang
- Heart and lung transplant
- Cardiovascula thoracic surgery

Angie Fong
- Preventive Cardiology

Julius Navarro
- Dialysis

Kristi Cheng
- Nephrology
- Kidney transplant
- Cystic fibrosis

Mary Ellen DiPaola
- Pre-kidney transplant
- Bariatric surgery
- Women's health

Melissa Xia
- Weight management

Neha Shah
- Inflamatory bowel disease
- Ostomy
- Short bowel syndrome

Talya Kurzion
- Diabetes
- Weight management
- Hyperlipidemia

Allie Latray
- Inborn errors of metabolism

Bre Philips
- Pediatric dialysis
- Pediatric rheumatology

Lisa Keung
- Pediatric dialysis
- Pediatric kidney transplant
- Pediatric chronic kidney disease

Meghan Ownens
- Pediatric cardiology
- Pediatric oncology

Mikayla Kuykendall
- Eating disorders

Sarah Mencia
- Gestational diabetes
- Lactation

Sarianne Madsen
- Ketogenic diets

Alyson Crowley
- General pediatrics

Beth Saunders
- Adolescent health
- Eating disorders

Callie Austin
- General pediatrics

Casey Britts
- General pediatrics

Cat Marks
- Pediatric cardiology

Clarissa Hom
- Pediatric BMT

Maria Hetherton
- Neonatology
- Pediatric critical care

Micaela Bellés
- General pediatrics

Rosa Keller
- General pediatrics

Shana Johnson
- General pediatrics
- Pediatric Gastroenterology

Shannon Burke
- Neonatology
- Pediatric surgery

Tara Trakin
- Pediatric critical care