Services
Laura is passionate about applying her years of weight management and diabetes experience through the lens of her health communication degree. She offers the following services:
Lectures, Workshops, Presentations, and Seminars
Writing for Professional or Consumer-Focused Publications
Consulting for Companies offering Weight Management Products and Services
Contact Laura to learn more about her services
She is recognized for engaging presentations at national and international conferences. Presentation topics have included:
Embracing Metabolic Surgery for Type 2 Diabetes
Managing Obesity through Sensitive Communication
Sleep Health and Meal Timing
Nutrition Management of Bariatric Surgery: Postoperative Challenges
Preoperative Diets: Are They Worth It and What Works
Acing the Big One: MBSAQIP Reaccreditation
Cultural Considerations in Nutrition
Debunking Bariatric Nutrition Myths
Measuring Weight Loss Success Beyond the Scale
Social Media in the Bariatric Population: Rewards and Challenges
RD 911: Managing Nutrition-Related Complications
She has published works for professional and lay publications. Her works include:
Weight Loss Prior to Bariatric Surgery and 30-Day Mortality, Readmission, Reoperation, and Intervention: an MBSAQIP Analysis of 349,016 Cases, Obesity Surgery
Nutrition Care in Bariatric Surgery: An Academy Evidence Analysis Library Systematic Review, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics
Diet Advancement After Weight Loss Surgery, Scientific American Medicine
The Paleo Diet, chapter in Clinical Guide to Popular Diets
RD 911 - Nutriton-Related Complications after Bariatric Surgery, Bariatric Times
Multivitamins – Are they Really Worth It? Your Weight Matters Magazine
Measuring Success Beyond the Scale. Your Weight Matters Magazine
Nutrition and Metabolic Support Recommendations for the Bariatric Patient, Nutrition in Clinical Practice
Assessment of Pre-Operative Bariatric Patient Knowledge of Nutritional and Behavioral Concepts, Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior