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Erica Stevens, RDN
Chair
Erica began her journey as a dietitian working in various positions in the hospital setting, transitioning to clinical and eventually food service management. Since then, she transitioned to working in nutrition informatics in 2015. She got her start building menu databases within a diet office software system and then worked in various technology related roles relating to diet office software including focusing on HL7 interface testing coordination, developing implementation processes, policies, and procedures, and eventually adding software requirement development and QA to her resume. She currently oversees an interdisciplinary team who implement, support, and develop a diet office software system.
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Sharon Solomon, RD
Past Chair
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Emilie Westcott, MS RDN LD
Chair Elect
Emilie's primary role is to lead special projects related to technology and data, specializing in quality improvement and new process implementation, for the Clinical Nutrition & Lactation Department at Dayton Children's Hospital. She works to develop new tools in the electronic health record to streamline documentation and care along with providing data analytics to progress strategic goals. Prior to this, she worked in pediatric clinical and community roles and currently serves on the hospital's Health Equity Council. She is proud to be a Cultural Food Partner, spearheading cultural food celebrations at the hospital with our foodservice and marketing partners.
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Hannah Kittrell, MS RD CDN EP-C
Secretary
Hannah has been a Registered Dietitian and ACSM-certified Exercise Physiologist since 2019 and is currently completing her PhD at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in NYC. She began her dietetics career working as a research dietitian running deep phenotyping studies on human metabolism and as Director of the Mount Sinai Physiolab, a body composition and metabolic testing clinic. Working with clients one-on-one to develop personalized nutrition and exercise programs sparked Hannah's interest in the field of precision nutrition. She is now completing her PhD in Artificial Intelligence and Emerging Technologies in Medicine, where her research focuses on evaluating the utility of unsupervised learning algorithms to model compositional dietary intake and identify objective diet biomarkers.
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Donna L. Quirk, MBA RDN LD
Treasurer
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Carolyn A Silzle, MBA MS RD FAND
Academy House of Delegates Representative
Carolyn has been a registered dietitian for over 45 years. She earned her undergraduate degree from Penn State, a Master’s from Case Western Reserve University, and an MBA from Troy University. Carolyn is married with two adult daughters and two grandsons.
Her career began in adult nutrition at various hospitals in Cleveland. After relocating to Atlanta due to her husband’s job transfer, Carolyn worked prn at an adult hospital and was later recruited to a pediatric position at the nearby Children's Hospital. This hospital merged with another, forming Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, where Carolyn specialized in pediatric neurology and the ketogenic diet. As the hospital system began integrating a new electronic medical record (EMR) system, Carolyn volunteered for a task that led her to shift focus to clinical informatics. She developed numerous orders for the new EMR and later worked as a lab orders analyst until her retirement.
In Atlanta, Carolyn became active with the Atlanta and Georgia Dietetic Associations and was encouraged by a colleague to join and volunteer with the Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group (PNPG), where she held several positions, including Chair. She was also prompted by Kathleen Pellechia, the first Chair of the NI DPG, to get involved with the NI DPG, given her previous experience. Carolyn served two years as treasurer and is currently in her second year as the NI Delegate for the House of Delegates (HOD). Her goal this year is to enhance communication about the HOD with members. Please reach out if you have questions about the group.
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Ann Childers, MS MHA RDN LD
Nominating Committee Chair
Ann held the position of Manager, Clinical Nutrition & Informatics at Prisma Health Richland, Columbia, SC prior to retiring. She is active on the Nutrition Informatics Sub-unit with the CNM DPG. She also served on the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Nutrition Informatics Committee (NIC). While serving on the NIC she co-authored articles on nutrition informatics. As Nominating Chair Ann is seeking candidates to run for offices on the Nutrition Informatics Executive Committee and to serve on committees.
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