Melinda Dennis
Melinda Dennis, MS, RDN, LD, is a registered dietitian and Nutrition Coordinator of the Celiac Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, USA, specializing in Medical Nutrition Therapy for patients with gluten-related disorders. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Celiac Education and Research Program at Harvard Medical School, as Program Director of BIDMC’s website: CeliacNow.org, and as a Nutrition Advisor to the National Celiac Association and the Celiac Disease Foundation. She recently co-authored papers on guidelines for dietary assessment and monitoring of adult patients with celiac disease and co-wrote the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetic's Certificate in Training for Celiac Disease and Gluten Related Disorders. Melinda is a taskforce member on an NIH study researching the added effectiveness, beyond standard of care, of gluten detection monitoring technologies in promoting mucosal recovery in celiac disease. Her current research, working with the Foundation for Celiac Disease Outcome Measures, explores patient feedback to inform adaptation of the Celiac Disease Symptom Diary v2.1 as a clinician-administered tool to assess celiac disease symptoms in routine clinical practice.
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