Wendy Bazilian, DrPH, MA, RDN, ACSM-EP, is a writer, educator, food enthusiast and award-winning journalist. She is author and contributor to several best-selling and award-nominated books and maintains an active private practice and consulting business in San Diego where she lives, surfs, cooks, and plays with her husband and daughter. Wendy is an expert communications and strategy consultant to the spa industry, to start-up and established food and commodity groups, and to the health care industry. As a frequent nutrition and wellness keynote presenter at scientific, medical, corporate, food industry, culinary and public conferences, and festivals, Wendy is also a frequent contributor and guest on national and local media.

Jen Nguyen, RDN, CDN, NASM-CPT, is the Director of Nutrition for Sweet Pea Plant-Based Kitchen, a chef-prepared, plant-based, meal delivery service where she is the founding member of the nutrition coaching program and manages several dietitians and interns.

Wendy and Jen are both nutrition entrepreneurs with a passion for food, nutrition, and fitness, promoting individual and public health and wellness, and paying it forward through contributions of service, education, donations and collaborations to our nutrition and extended communities.

The faculty and planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose. An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products use by or on patients.