President: Sonia Siegel, MSH, RD, LD/N
Sonia is a Registered Dietitian working with the Jacksonville Childhood
Obesity Prevention Coalition as the Nutrition Services Manager. Her position
focuses on combating childhood hunger and obesity by providing nutrition
education and healthy meals to children throughout the year. Sonia is an active
member of ADA, JDA, and the Jacksonville Childhood Obesity Coalition and has
a Certificate in Childhood and Adolescent Weight Management. She enjoys
cooking, walking her dogs, working-out and spending time with family and friends.
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President-Elect: Lindsey Sowders, RD, LD/N, CLC
I am a Registered, Licensed Dietitian and Certified Lactation Counselor with the
Duval County Health Department. I work as a Senior Public Health Nutritionist
with the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infant, and Children
Program (WIC). I graduated from The Ohio State University with a Bachelors
Degree in Nutrition and Public Health. I also completed the Pasco County
Dietetic Internship. I enjoy living at the beach, and spending time with my family
and dog. I look forward to becoming more involved with the JDA.
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Treasurer: Catherine Wallace, MS, RD, LD/N
Catherine is a Pediatric Clinical Dietitian at Wolfson Children's Hospital. After
completing her mater's degree and internship in 2004 through UNF, she has
been employed at Baptist Medical Center downtown. She is currently working in
the children's hospital and loves every minute of it! Cat is closely involved with
the outpatient pediatric dialysis center and multiple projects including the
department website. In addition to her clinical work, she also teaches a monthly
community infant and child nutrition class at Sulzbacher.
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Secretary: Sue Stemke, DTR
Over the past year I have become a Dietetic Technician, Registered and have
worked in clinical, long-term care and community settings. Supporting nutrition
and healthy lifestyles is my goal and JDA has been a great avenue to learn,
teach and grow. My passion is involving people of all walks of life in their health
and getting them to be as excited about nutrition as I am.
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Member-at-Large: Jennifer Brown Lewis, RD, LD/N, CLC
I graduated from the University of North Florida with a BS in Nutrition. Currently, I
am a Public Health Nutritionist for the Duval County Health Department’s
division of Nutrition and Chronic Disease Prevention. I enjoy public health and
working with the community, especially children. In my spare time, I volunteer at
the YMCA as a girl’s basketball coach. Also, my husband and I really enjoy going
to Florida State football games.
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Nominating Committee Chair: Sally Clifton, MSH, RD, LD/N
Sally is a clinical dietitian working with medical/surgical/trauma patients at
Shands Jacksonville. In addition, she works with the Cardiac Rehab program
counseling patients and conducting heart healthy classes each month. She
enjoys staying active in local, state, and national organizations, as well as
representing the profession of dietetics through media relations. She has a
passion for healthy living and nutrition as a means of preventative medicine.
Sally earned her BS from UGA and her MSH from UNF.
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Nominating Committee: Misha Biden, RD, LD/N
Misha is currently working at the UF Weight Loss Surgery Institute as the
Bariatric Dietitian as well as at the Healthy Start Program at Shands Jacksonville.
She is a member of the American Dietetic Association, Weight Management/
Bariatric Practice Group and Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutrition
Dietetic Practice Group. Misha is originally from San Diego, CA and graduated
from San Diego State University with her BS in Nutritional Sciences. In her free
time she enjoys going to the beach and spending time with her husband
and 4 pugs.
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Nominating Committee: Meridith Smith, MS, RD, LD/N, CDE
Meridith is currently working at Shands as the Outpatient Diabetes Education
Program Coordinator. She also provides medical nutrition therapy and serves as
the Registered Dietitian for the Levemir Insulin Diet study at the UF
Endocrinology practice. Meridith earned her BS in Dietetics from FIU in Miami,
and her Master's in Health Science from UNF. She is a member of both local and
national professional nutrition and diabetes organizations and thoroughly enjoys
providing nutrition information through various media outlets.
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Information Systems: Gina Ulery, MS, RD, LD/N
Gina is our webmaster, listserv moderator and also reports the credits from our
meetings to Florida's CE Broker. She has served on the JDA board since 2006.
Gina is the Continuing Education Coordinator for Professional Development
Resources, a local, non-profit company that offers JDA members 10% off online
continuing education courses (www.pdresources.org/jda).
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