Wonder Woman in Business, Barbie Cervoni

Barbie Cervoni, MS, RD, CDN, CDCES is a Registered Dietitian (RD) and Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES). She currently serves as the diabetes expert and wellness board member at verywell.com, and counsels patients privately. Throughout her patient counseling, she realized that the wealth of information accessible via internet is often confusing and misleading. Therefore, she has dedicated her career to providing people with credible and relevant information that suits their lifestyle and health goals. She believes in individualized nutrition counseling and uses her writing to educate a large population of people. Barbie graduated from New York University with a Master of Science in clinical nutrition in 2008. Barbie completed a Dietetic Internship and training from Mount Sinai Medical Center and is certified in Adult Weight Management. She has been quoted in a variety of media outlets, including Today’s Dietitian, Everyday Health. When she is not reading or writing about nutrition and diabetes, she is in her in the kitchen, cooking nutritious and delicious meals for her family, exercising, or being active with her husband, two sons, and labradoodle. She believes that food can be medicine and has spent the last four years learning about what foods help her to control cancer and autoimmune disease. She is currently finishing up her plant-based culinary certification with Rouxbe. Lastly, she is an advocate for rare cancer research and participates in Cycle for Survival every year.