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Fiona Pelly
President
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Hattie Wright
Vice President
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Jacque Scaramella
Treasurer
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Nancy Clark
Secretary
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Shelly Meltzer
Membership Officer
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Catalina Fernández
Membership Officer
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Sharon Madigan
Partnership Officer
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Joanne Mirtschin
Partnership Officer
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Aurora León
Sponsorship Officer
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Floris Wardenaar
Education Officer
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Mark Kern
Sponsorship Officer
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Rachael Thurecht
Communications Officer
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Enette Larson-Meyer
Education Officer
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Kathryn Beck
Communications Officer
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Lachlan Mitchell
Communications Officer
Fiona Pelly
President
Associate Professor Fiona Pelly is an Accredited Practising Dietitian with 28 years’ experience, a Fellow of Sports Dietitians Australia and the current president of PINES. She is the Discipline Leader in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia, and is a member of the Australian Dietetic Council responsible for accreditation of university programs in Nutrition and Dietetics across Australia. Fiona completed both her post graduate dietetic qualifications and PhD at the University of Sydney. She has previously worked as a sports dietitian with many individual athletes and teams as well as high profile clients such as The Wiggles. Fiona is internationally recognised for her expertise in food provision and nutrition support at major sporting competition events. She has led the PINES review of the food provision provided at the summer and winter Olympic Games for the International Olympic Committee since 2008 and has collaborated with international caterers to provide a nutrition support service at five major competition events since the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Fiona has conducted extensive research in this area. She is interested in the translation of knowledge about nutrition and nutrient requirements into food and whole diets, diet quality, eating behaviours and the influence of the food environment, particularly in relation to athletes and performance. She is also interested in nutrition and dietetic practice, and the relationship to student training. Fiona is interested in expanding the global expertise in sport nutrition to benefit athletes from all countries and cultures.
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Hattie Wright
Vice President
Hattie is a founding member of PINES and passionate to make sport nutrition resource available to dietitians and other health professionals with limited resources. Originally from South Africa, Hattie has first-hand experience in the difficulties to keep up to date with the newest research and have access to a network of dietitians with expertise in the area of sports nutrition. Hattie practised as a sports dietitian for 14 years while in South Africa consulting national and international athletes and teams. During this time she found it fascinating and challenging to find a fine balance between meeting an athletes’ energy needs to support their physiological and performance demands while balancing their body composition goals. As faculty member, this lead to her research focus on how eating behaviour relates to energy status and overall health outcomes of active individuals which she still actively works in. For her full profile click on the USC weblink here.
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Jacque Scaramella
Treasurer
Jacque Scaramella is a Sport Dietitian contracted with the United States Olympic Committee. She currently works with summer and winter Olympic and Paralympic sports: including Women’s Rugby 7s, Archery, Sled Hockey, Sitting Volleyball, Para Triathlon, Para Archery and Para Soccer. She has previously supported men’s and women’s Volleyball and Water Polo. Jacque is a Level 2 ISAK Anthropometrist. She supports the nutrition needs of Team USA athletes traveling domestically and internationally for training camps and competition, including the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the 2018 Winter Paralympic Games in PyeongChang, South Korea. Jacque is currently the Treasurer for PINES.
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Nancy Clark
Secretary
Sports nutritionist Nancy Clark MS RD CSSD (Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics) counsels both competitive athletes and casual exercisers in her successful private practice in the Boston-area (Newton, MA). She has over 38 years of experience helping thousands of active clients—from “ordinary mortals” to Olympians—win with good nutrition. Nancy completed her undergraduate degree in nutrition from Simmons College in Boston, her dietetic internship at Massachusetts General Hospital, and her Master’s degree in Nutrition with a focus on Exercise Physiology from Boston University.
In addition to helping athletes win with good nutrition, Nancy educates dietitians, trainers, coaches, and other health professionals about how to effectively teach the sports nutrition message.
Her best-selling Nancy Clark’s Sports Nutrition Guidebook has sold over 750,000 copies. Nancy also writes a monthly nutrition column called The Athlete’s Kitchen, which appears regularly in over 100 sports and fitness publications and websites. She has been team nutritionist for the Boston Red Sox Baseball Team. Nancy has been the recipient of several professional awards for her contributions to the profession. For more information, please visit www.NancyClarkRD.com
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Shelly Meltzer
Membership Officer
Shelly Meltzer is a registered dietitian, author, teacher, researcher, and consultant dietitian with over 30 years of clinical, community and international sports nutrition experience. Shelly set up the dietary practice and nutrition services at the Sport Science Institute of South Africa in 1995 and has worked with development and elite athletes, teams and coaches across a variety of sports. Shelly has also managed the nutrition services for a number of world sports events. She serves/has served on several professional committees and Boards (including the SA Institute for Drug Free Sport, SA Rugby scientific and advisory committee), and local and international university faculties.
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Catalina Fernández
Membership Officer
Catalina Fernández is a sports dietitian and former national team volleyball player from Costa Rica, currently based on Mexico City. She started her early human nutrition formation in Costa Rica to then move to the United States to start her specialization in sports nutrition with a master’s degree at The Ohio State University. As one of the recipients of PINES scholarships for the IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition, she was given the job of developing the Sports Nutrition Department at the Costa Rica Olympic Committee, where she worked hand by hand with athletes, coaches and staff of various sports for more than 6 years, showing how impactful sports nutrition can be for and athlete’s development and performance, and being the first sports dietitian to ever assist the Costa Rica team at the Olympic Games in Rio 2016.
Catalina has also been a lecturer for national and international sports nutrition classes and conferences. Now she is working as an independent consultant for elite athletes and developing her own sports nutrition educational projects.
As an athlete, she played for the Costa Rican volleyball national team for over 10 years, attending two World Championships in Japan 2006 and 2010.
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Sharon Madigan
Partnership Officer
Name: Dr. Sharon Madigan, RD PhD, rSEN, FFSEM (Hon)
Qualifications: Bachelor of Science (Ulster University), N. Ireland, 1991
MSc Biomedical Sciences / Human Nutrition (Ulster University), 1993
Graduate Diploma Nutrition & Dietetics (Ulster University), 1995
Doctor of Philosophy (Ulster University), 2005
Hon Fellowship (Royal College of Surgeons Dublin), Ireland, 2016
Occupation: Head of Performance Nutrition, Sport Ireland Institute.
Contact Details: Sports Campus Ireland, Abbotstown, Dublin.
P: +447771580797
Biography: Sharon currently is Head of Performance Sport at the Irish Institute of Sport. She has also significant experience as a clinical dietitian within the Belfast Trust. She has a PhD in Nutrition Education. From 2003-present she has been the performance nutritionist with the Irish Boxing Team working with young right up to the elite international team. From 2002-2009 Sharon delivered services at the Sports Institute Northern Ireland. Part of this role included the provision of nutrition education to a range of sports. From 2008-2011 she was the performance dietitian with the Senior Ulster Rugby Team.
In 2010 she started work with the Irish Institute of Sport. She is responsible for delivery and aids coordination of nutrition services for elite Irish athletes across a range of Olympic and Paralympic sports. A strong focus of her position within Institute of Sport is also the engagement in high performance research. Sharon’s main research interests focus on the interaction between diet and health and diet and sports performance. She is currently involved in co-supervision of a number of research projects including:
- Energy deficiency and its relationship with injury, illness, bone health and performance.
- Vitamin D and athletic performance
- Vitamin D and COPD
- Gut health and sports performance.
- Nutrition and sleep in elite sport.
She has delivered nutrition support to athletes over four Olympic cycles and other major championships such as European, World and EU championships. As well as working with individual athletes has been involved with the science and medical committee of the Olympic Council of Ireland in the planning and logistics at two camp bases. She was awarded a Hon Fellowship of the Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine, RSCI in Sept 2016.
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Joanne Mirtschin
Partnership Officer
Joanne Mirtschin is a Sports Dietitian currently working as the Foodservice Dietitian at the Australian Institute of Sport and in this role manages and advises nutrition input into the food provision at the Australian and Italian bases of the Australian Institute of Sport. She has worked with the Australian Rowing Team and the Australian Olympic Committee with Summer and Winter Olympic campaigns in food planning and food preparation for athletes. Her foodservice experience coupled with her previous experience as an elite athlete, has given her a solid understanding of the provision of food for athletes both within their training environments and at major events. She has been involved PINES review of the food provision provided at Olympic games for the International Olympic Committee. Outside nutrition she assists in the management of staff and businesses in her family enterprise.
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Aurora León
Sponsorship Officer
Aurora León is known not only for her professional experience as a sports dietitian, but also for her personal experience as an athlete. Aurora started her career by graduating with a bachelors degree of Science in Nutrition and Food Science from Iberoamerican University in 1992. Aurora also has a Masters of Science in Sports Nutrition from Ulster University, and the IOC Diploma in Sports Nutrition. Aurora is the Co-Founder, Vice President and Board Member of the Mexican Sports Federation since 2012, and is a board member of the Professionals In Nutrition for Exercise and Sports (PINES) since 2008. She has also dedicated many years as an academic on sports nutrition in the Iberoamerican University. Today, Aurora has a private practice, and she has been the sports dietitian of elite athletes for many years. From 1995-2002, she was the sports dietitian of the Mexican Triathlon Federation; She is now the head of sports nutrition in AsDeporte, as well as the sports dietitian of the AsDeporte Elite Triathlon Team. Since 2013, she is also de founder and developer of Fuel2Go Sports Nutrition Products Company. Additionally to her professional achievements, Aurora started her career being an elite triathlete (1992-1995), and since then she has ran more than twenty marathons; Aurora has a PR of 2:56:50 in Boston’s Marathon 2014. On 2016, she won second place in the ITW World Championship Sprint Distance in Cozumel, Mexico.
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Floris Wardenaar
Education Officer
Since September 2017 Floris Wardenaar works at Arizona State University (ASU) as an Assistant Professor for the College of Health Solution. Previously he also worked as sports nutrition consultant at the Sun Devil Athletics Department at ASU. Dr. Wardenaar’s expertise lies in performance nutrition and dietary exposure assessment in competitive athletes. His current research focuses on determining (sport) nutrition needs in the desert heat and validation of practical dietary and hydration assessment methods. At this moment Wardenaar teaches Advanced Sport Nutrition for graduate students and is the faculty advisor of the Sun Devil Sport Nutrition Club for undergraduate students at ASU.
Dr. Floris Wardenaar was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands (1980). He studied nutrition and dietetics (BS) at the Applied University of Amsterdam and received his MS degree in human nutrition at Wageningen University. Starting in 2006 Dr. Wardenaar worked as a lecturer and senior lecturer for the HAN University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. Over the years he teached sport nutrition and dietetics and developed a half year full-time course (minor) in sports nutrition. In 2007 Wardenaar was included as sport dietitian of the Olympic nutrition program of the Dutch Olympic Committee, working with track cycling, speed skating, short track skating, rowing and swimming. In the following period he was chair for three years of the Dutch Sport Nutrition Association (VSN). In 2012 he became team leader of the sports and exercise nutrition team at the institute of sports and exercise studies at the HAN University of Applied Sciences. From 2014-2017 he was responsible as team lead for the Olympic nutrition program in the Netherlands. Wardenaar completed his PhD at the department of human nutrition at Wageningen University in February 2017.
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Mark Kern
Sponsorship Officer
Mark Kern earned his PhD in Foods and Nutrition in the Interdepartmental Nutrition Program at Purdue University where he blended foods and nutrition with exercise science. He was hired at San Diego State University as an Assistant Professor in 1995 to “cross over” between both areas after the foods and nutrition faculty merged with the physical education faculty to form one of the nation’s first departments of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences. Mark taught Advanced Nutrition and the Advanced Nutrition Laboratory for many years, but has been teaching Fundamentals of Nutrition more often recently. He has taught Nutrition for Athletes and Nutrition and Energy since he was hired. Mark has been highly involved with the Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutrition (SCAN) Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and dietetics for many years as a presenter at the annual Symposium, a book reviewer, nominating committee chair, member of the Executive Committee and since 2003 as Editor-in-Chief of SCAN’s PULSE. His research usually addresses the interactive and independent effects of diet and exercise on chronic disease risk factors, appetite and body weight regulation, bone health and exercise performance. Mark likes to put his discoveries to the test by competing in triathlons, and although training takes a lot of his time, he admits his favorite way to spend his time when he’s not eating is to ride motocross.
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Rachael Thurecht
Communications Officer
Rachael is an Accredited Practicing Dietitian and Sports Dietitian who has a passion for nutrition, teaching and research. Currently, Rachael is a Lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia where she teaches into a variety of first and second year courses. From a young age food, nutrition and playing sport (mostly softball, squash and swimming) were keen interests. During her Bachelor Nutrition and Dietetics (Honours) she developed an interest in how our individual traits and circumstances impacted on our eating behaviours. After graduating, she had the opportunity to pursue these interests through a USC, scholarship supported PhD. Rachael recently completed her PhD that centered on the development and validation of an Athlete Food Choice Questionnaire that could be utilised with a sporting and culturally diverse group of athletes. Her research sought to translate current knowledge on the multifactorial construct of food choice into a questionnaire for practitioners, researchers and individual athletes to examine the relative influence of various factors on food choice.
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Enette Larson-Meyer
Education Officer
Dr Enette Larson-Meyer recently joined the faculty at Virginia Tech in the Department of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise where she directs the Master of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics and the Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism (NEM) Laboratory. Her research interests center around how nutrition influences the health and performance of active individuals at all stages of the lifecycle and at all levels of performance–from the casual exerciser to the elite athlete. Her most recent research interests include the assessment of iodine and vitamin D status and the importance of these nutrients in exercise performance, disease prevention and general wellness. Enette has authored over ninety scientific articles and book chapters, is the author of “Plant-Based Sports Nutrition. Expert Fueling Strategies for Training, Recovery, and Performance” with Matt Ruscigno (Human Kinetics, 2020) and has served on several International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus panels. She is a Fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and serves as an Associate Editor for Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise and the Science and Medicine of Football. Dr Larson-Meyer completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Wyoming, her dietetic training and masters at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and her doctoral and postdoctoral studies at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Earlier in her career she completed a sports nutrition internship experience at the Olympic Training Center and served as the sports dietitian for the UAB Blazers. Her personal interests include trail running, flat water kayaking, Irish Step dancing, strength training, gardening, yoga, cooking and wine tasting. She is the proud mother of three college students, two of whom play D2 collegiate football (soccer) at US Universities.
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Kathryn Beck
Communications Officer
Dr Kathryn Beck is a New Zealand Registered Dietitian and Associate Professor in Human Nutrition and Dietetics at Massey University in Albany. She is a course co-ordinator of nutrition and sports nutrition papers. Kathryn has an undergraduate degree in physical education, has worked as a dietitian in clinical and community settings, and is currently dietitian for the Massey University Academy of Sport. She has previously worked with the High-Performance Sport New Zealand Pathway to Podium programme and North Harbour women’s rugby. From 2012-2017 she was co-convenor of the Dietitians New Zealand sports nutrition special interest group. Kathryn’s research interests include sports nutrition, iron deficiency, dietary pattern analysis and the development and validation of dietary assessment tools. She is particularly interested in how sports can be used as a platform for promoting healthy eating. Her research has been funded by the New Zealand Health Research, she is a fellow of the World Cancer Research Fund Academy, has supervised over 50 MSc and PhD students to completion, and has published over 75 manuscripts in international peer-reviewed journals.
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Lachlan Mitchell
Communications Officer
Lachlan is a lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at Australian Catholic University. He teaches in the Masters of Dietetic Practice and Undergraduate Nutrition Science degree programs. After completing his undergraduate studies in dietetics and exercise science at the University of Sydney, Lachlan worked in a variety of settings including clinical dietetics, and as a performance dietitian and exercise scientist with team and individual sport athletes in Australia, Ireland, and Canada. Lachlan completed his PhD at the University of Sydney where he examined body composition and physiology of natural bodybuilders. He then undertook postdoctoral research work at University College Dublin where his research included both sport nutrition and public health research. He continues to research dietary and exercise strategies to manipulate body composition and improve athlete health and performance. Lachlan provides dietary services to athletes and teams in Sydney.
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