Dr. Cary Kreutzer, is a Registered Dietitian and Instructional Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Gerontology in the Leonard Davis School of Gerontology and Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. Following completion of a Bachelor's degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, Dr. Kreutzer completed a Dietetic Internship at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. She received a Master's Degree in Public Health, Health Services Management and Administration from the University of Washington, Seattle. She then completed a Doctorate Degree in Urban Education Leadership, with an emphasis in Educational Psychology at USC, Rossier School of Education. Dr. Kreutzer has been a practicing RD since 1982, primarily serving at-risk and underserved pediatric and young adult populations. She worked in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates as a clinical dietitian and directed maternal and child health nutrition for the New Mexico Department of Public Health. For over 20-years she directed community education at the USC Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. For the past 10 years she has directed and taught in the ACEND-accredited Master's Degree Coordinated Program in Nutrition, Healthspan and Longevity. Her areas of expertise include obesity prevention and intervention, developmental disabilities and chronic illness, public health and nutrition education, nutrition and health literacy, health systems and health care access and nutrigenomics.

Joyce Nakashima has been an RDN since 2001 and worked with pediatric patients with special needs early in her career and now works in the area of long term care from 6 bed group homes to 180 bed long term care facilities. She has also worked as a consultant in assisted living facilities to provide kitchen inspections and in-services. Working as a team with the Administrator, Director of Nursing, Dietary Services Supervisor, Speech Therapist, and support staff, she has worked in over 30 long term care facilities and has gained invaluable experiences to help maintain and improve resident care, improve kitchen sanitation and also aims to reduce supplement use.

Romana Brennan is a Registered Dietitian at the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition, where she helps coordinate nutrition research and clinical trials. She received her bachelor's degree from UC Berkeley, where she studied integrative biology and Spanish. She went on to obtain her master's degree in Nutrition, Health Span and Longevity from the University of Southern California, where she also completed her dietetic training. Romana also works in private practice as the Lead Dietitian at Functional Fueling Nutrition, where she takes an integrative and functional approach to women's health and digestive health. Additionally, Romana provides 1-1 nutrition counseling and support in a private medical clinic, providing nutrition education from a holistic "food as medicine" approach.