Dr.Sheila Dean
DR.SHEILA DEAN,DSc,RD,LD/N,CCN,CDE
is a registered and licensed dietitian, board certified clinical nutritionist, certified diabetes educator and exercise physiologist. She received her undergraduate training through Rutgers University, completed her internship and graduate training with University of Rhode Island and Brown University’s teaching hospitals. She received doctoral training in nutritional genomics and pharmacology through the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and completed her Doctorate of Science degree through Hawthorn University. Dr. Dean is also a graduate of the Institute for Functional Medicine where she received advanced training in integrative medicine and nutritional biochemistry. She has also worked with the Duke University Medical Center’s Endocrinology and Metabolism Disorders Clinic and the Joslin Center for Diabetes as a certified diabetes educator.
Currently, Dr. Dean is the owner of a medical nutrition private practice in Palm Harbor, Florida. An educator at heart, she has taught for 16 years as adjunct nutrition science professor and currently teaches at the University of Tampa. She has conducted dozens of local and national public presentations for groups from preschool age to the professional, has written continuing education credit functional medicine modules for both nutritionists and nurses, has authored book reviews and articles for The St. Petersburg Times, Ms.Fitness magazine, <url removed> website and has appeared on NBC - News Channel 8, NBC-Daytime, CBS-News Channel 10, ABC-News Channel 28, WTVT-TV Fox13-Good Day Tampa Bay, Natural Living-KONK 1500 AM radio, WFTW 1260 am radio, and WDBO 580 am radio for dozens of interviews. She is also a contributing author of the medical textbook Integrative Gastroenterology published by Oxford University Press and the clinical nutrition textbook Krause’s Food & Nutrition Therapy. Dr. Dean currently serves on the advisory board for the nationally acclaimed Center For Mind-Body Medicine’s Food As Medicine professional education course and was the Professional Advancement Director for the Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine dietetic practice group of the American Dietetic Association. She’s served as the consulting sports nutritionist for the Philadelphia Phillies, has consulted for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was the media spokesperson and columnist for the Ironman Institute.
Dr. Dean is the author of Nutrition & Endurance: Where Do I Begin?, (Meyer & Meyer Publishing) and is a certified health and fitness instructor with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA), and the YMCA of America.
is a registered and licensed dietitian, board certified clinical nutritionist, certified diabetes educator and exercise physiologist. She received her undergraduate training through Rutgers University, completed her internship and graduate training with University of Rhode Island and Brown University’s teaching hospitals. She received doctoral training in nutritional genomics and pharmacology through the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and completed her Doctorate of Science degree through Hawthorn University. Dr. Dean is also a graduate of the Institute for Functional Medicine where she received advanced training in integrative medicine and nutritional biochemistry. She has also worked with the Duke University Medical Center’s Endocrinology and Metabolism Disorders Clinic and the Joslin Center for Diabetes as a certified diabetes educator.
Currently, Dr. Dean is the owner of a medical nutrition private practice in Palm Harbor, Florida. An educator at heart, she has taught for 16 years as adjunct nutrition science professor and currently teaches at the University of Tampa. She has conducted dozens of local and national public presentations for groups from preschool age to the professional, has written continuing education credit functional medicine modules for both nutritionists and nurses, has authored book reviews and articles for The St. Petersburg Times, Ms.Fitness magazine, <url removed> website and has appeared on NBC - News Channel 8, NBC-Daytime, CBS-News Channel 10, ABC-News Channel 28, WTVT-TV Fox13-Good Day Tampa Bay, Natural Living-KONK 1500 AM radio, WFTW 1260 am radio, and WDBO 580 am radio for dozens of interviews. She is also a contributing author of the medical textbook Integrative Gastroenterology published by Oxford University Press and the clinical nutrition textbook Krause’s Food & Nutrition Therapy. Dr. Dean currently serves on the advisory board for the nationally acclaimed Center For Mind-Body Medicine’s Food As Medicine professional education course and was the Professional Advancement Director for the Dietitians in Integrative and Functional Medicine dietetic practice group of the American Dietetic Association. She’s served as the consulting sports nutritionist for the Philadelphia Phillies, has consulted for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and was the media spokesperson and columnist for the Ironman Institute.
Dr. Dean is the author of Nutrition & Endurance: Where Do I Begin?, (Meyer & Meyer Publishing) and is a certified health and fitness instructor with the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), the Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA), and the YMCA of America.
Hometown: Palm Harbor, FL United States
Occupation: medical nutritionist
Posts
Balancing the Immune System
Autoimmune diseases are truly the prevailing health problem of the 21st century. Millions of Americans have one form or another of an autoimmune condition. What I have come to learn is that autoimmune diseases are really less about the organ being affected and more about an immune dysregulation, ...
Goals
Dr.Sheila Dean has not shared any goals.