Jennifer Stack ’03, RDN, CDE

Course: Nutrition and Optimal Diets II: Applications.

Professor Stack is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDE). She graduated with honors in Culinary Arts from the Culinary Institute of America in 2003 and was awarded the Académie Brillat-Savarin Medal of Merit as a student.

Professor Stack holds a Master of Science degree in Clinical Nutrition from New York University (NYU) and has practiced as a nutrition therapist in New York City and the Hudson Valley helping her clients embrace the joy of eating and cooking while managing chronic health problems. As a recognized authority on nutrition, food, and cooking, her easy to follow nutritional advice, cooking tips and recipes have been featured on The Food Network, CNN Morning News, and ABC’s Good Morning America.

In addition, she has contributed articles and recipes to Plate, The Valley Table, Diabetic Living, and Cooking Light magazines and has been quoted for articles by The New York Times and The Washington Post.

As an associate professor at CIA since 2008, Professor Stack published her cookbook, The Diabetes-Friendly Kitchen: 125 Recipes for Creating Healthy Meals and helped coordinate and execute the teaching kitchen/self-care curriculum and pilot study with colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health and the Samueli Institute.