Managing your diet
Recommendations about food and eating habits for cancer patients can be very different from the usual suggestions for healthful eating.
This can be confusing for you as a patient or survivor because these new suggestions may seem to contradict what you have always heard.
Our goals with nutrition counseling are to help you to:
- Manage treatment side effects
- Achieve and maintain optimal body weight
- Review tube feeding needs and management
- Cancer prevention and survivorship education
- Review nutritional supplements, vitamins and minerals
- Learn about safe food handling and preparation
- Educate family member/caregivers about your special needs
- Enhance quality of life during treatment
Our registered dietitians are available to answer questions and address concerns about managing your diet, weight, treatment side effects, and use of nutritional supplements. To schedule an appointment with one of our dietitians, call (404) 778-5646.
Meet Our Dietitians
Tiffany Barrett, MS, RD, CSO, LD
- Manager of Winship Dietitians
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Ms. Barrett leads the nutritional services team at all Winship locations providing personalized nutrition advice to patients who are undergoing cancer treatment.
Whitney Bond, RD, LD
- Registered Dietitian
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
Ms. Bond offers personalized nutrition advice to optimize health throughout the stages of cancer, from diagnosis to survivorship.
Stephanie Boyea, MS, RD, CSO, LD
- Registered Dietitian
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
A Registered Dietitian, Ms. Boyea provides blood cancer patients who are undergoing treatment at Winship with personalized nutrition advice.
Valerie Buckley, MS, CSO, RD, LD
- Clinical Dietitian
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
A Registered Dietitian, Ms. Buckley provides cancer patients who are undergoing treatment at Winship Cancer Institute with personalized nutrition advice.
Emily M. Huskey, RD, CSO, LD
- Registered Dietitian
- Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University
A Registered Dietitian, Ms. Huskey provides cancer patients who are undergoing treatment at Winship Cancer Institute with personalized nutrition advice.
Rachel Keller, MS, RD, CSO, LDN
- Registered Dietitian
- Emory Saint Joseph's Hospital
Ms. Keller offers advice and counseling to help patients optimize their health and nutrition from diagnosis to survivorship.
Alison Sturgill, MS, RD, CSO, LD
- Registered Dietitian
- Emory Proton Therapy Center
Ms. Sturgill works with patients receiving proton therapy to optimize their health and nutrition during and after treatment.
Pepper Wilson, RD, LD, CSO
- Registered Dietitian
- Emory Johns Creek Hospital
Mrs. Wilson provides individualized nutrition care to optimize health throughout the stages of cancer, from diagnosis to survivorship.