Nicole Lund is a registered dietitian at NYU Langone’s Sports Performance Center. A certified health and well-being coach and certified personal trainer, as a former dancer her love of movement led her into a career as a step aerobics instructor and personal trainer. Through her work, she recognized a need for a discussion about food and its impact on everything from performance to health. She sees medical nutrition therapy patients via insurance and self-pay sports. She is a clinician with the Running Lab and works with athletes on the USA Nordic team.
Her expertise is in sports and performance nutrition while her clinical interests include chronic inflammation, weight loss, migraines, and menopause. She has a master’s degree in public health nutrition from Hunter College.
Part 1
The discussion covered the following topics: how and when she began to develop an interest in performance nutrition; types of patients she treats; the role that diet plays in improving problems involving overweight and obesity; and use of dietary supplements by patients.
Dr. David Jevotovsky is in the second year of a residency program at the Rusk Rehabilitation Institute at NYU Langone Health. A former graduate of NYU Grossman School of Medicine, he is keen on pursuing a fellowship in interventional pain medicine. Having experienced a traumatic brain injury during his medical training, he possesses a unique understanding of both the patient and provider perspectives of this condition.
As patients differ on the basis of age, gender, and racial/ethnic background, whether they also tend to differ in how they express what it is like to experience a TBI and live with its aftermath; the role played by social media in the residency program; whether beneficial outcomes can result from having patients with a TBI participate in physical exercise activities; why it is hard for many patients, their loved ones, and even PM&R physicians to understand how a brain could be rewired; and different perspectives that patients and physicians may have regarding agitation/delirium, cognition, return to work, and support systems.