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Nutrition is an essential component of wellness, disease risk reduction and treatment. FSNC dietitians are guided by the belief that eating should be enjoyable for all - those with and without special dietary needs. Outpatient services
Ambulatory patients visit FSNC’s outpatient dietitians for a host of reasons – from help with general healthy eating to more complex medical conditions requiring highly specialized medical nutrition therapy. Our dietitians work one-on-one with patients to tailor a plan to their individual nutrition needs. They provide advice about optimal eating patterns and the maintenance of healthy lifestyle, both at home and away.
Nutrition topics include:
FSNC’s inpatient dietitians provide nutritional assessment, food and nutrition care, and counseling for patients during their hospital stay. Through FSNC’s affiliation with Tufts Medical Center’s Nutrition Support Service, our dietitians also work with medical and nursing staff to offer special enteral and parenteral nutrition support by oral nutritional supplements, tube feeding, or intravenous feeding in the acute and critical care settings. We provide services to all hospitalized patients in areas including:
In addition to inpatient and outpatient services, the Frances Stern Nutrition Center is officially accredited by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) as the site of the combined Dietetic Internship/Master’s Degree program. This program provides a combination of a Master’s degree from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy with a dietetic internship at Tufts Medical Center as the certified site for supervised clinical training. Upon completion, students are eligible to sit for the Registered Dietitian (RD) examination to earn the RD credential. For additional information, please refer to the Tufts University Friedman School website. Graduates are distinguished in many clinical and community nutrition positions, as well as in higher education. A number of the graduates of the program have received doctoral or other higher degrees.
The Frances Stern Nutrition Center was established in 1918, is one of the oldest nutrition clinics in the world, and it continues to serve as a model for many other nutrition clinics in the United States and abroad. The clinic is named for Frances Stern, a community and clinical nutritionist in Boston in the early 20th century who helped to revolutionize nutrition education by developing individualized, culturally sensitive approaches to counseling patients that involved experiential learning using visual aids, food models, and ethnic recipes in her instruction. Later innovations included training dietitians in oral health.
The Center has hosted nutrition scientists and dietitians on sabbaticals and for visits from clinical dietitians from countries such as Israel, Taiwan, Singapore, and Korea. Interactions with these clinical nutrition professionals enrich the exposure of staff and students to the best national and international dietetics programs. In the past several decades, the Center has participated in several large national clinical trials of various dietary treatments, conducted other clinical nutrition research, and members of the Center have published several books and several hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals.
Title(s): Chief, Division of Clinical Nutrition; Director, Adult Nutrition Support Services; Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine; Dean for Education, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University Department(s): Medicine, Clinical Nutrition Appt. Phone: Fax #:
Enteral and parenteral nutrition
Title(s): Director, Frances Stern Nutrition Center; Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine and Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University Department(s): Medicine, Clinical Nutrition Appt. Phone: Fax #:
Clinical nutrition
Title(s): Endocrinologist; Dr. Robert and Veronica Atkins Professor in Metabolism and Nutrition, Tufts University School of Medicine Department(s): Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Appt. Phone: Fax #:
Title(s): Renal Nutrition Specialist; Clinical Instructor, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Department(s): Frances Stern Nutrition Center Appt. Phone: 617-636-5273 Fax #: 671-636-2864
Renal Nutrition, Clinical Nutrition Research
Title(s): Director of Nutrition and Business Operations, Dietetic Internship Director; Assistant Professor, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy and Tufts University School of Medicine Department(s): Frances Stern Nutrition Center Appt. Phone: 617-636-8309 Fax #: 671-636-2864
Nutrition Support, Dietetics Education
Title(s): Clinical Dietitian Department(s): Nutrition, Frances Stern Nutrition Center Appt. Phone: 617-636-5273 Fax #: 617-636-2864
Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure
Title(s): Neonatal Dietitian Department(s): Nutrition, Frances Stern Nutrition Center Appt. Phone: 617-636-5273 Fax #: 617-636-2864
Neonatal nutrition
Accepting New Patients
Virtual Appointments Available
Title(s): Gastroenterologist; Professor, Tufts University Schools of Medicine and Friedman School of Nutritional Science and Policy; Senior Scientist and Director, Vitamins and Carcinogenesis Laboratory, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University Department(s): Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, Gastroenterology Appt. Phone: 617-636-5883 Fax #: 617-636-1480
Malabsorption and unintentional weight loss, Inflammatory bowel disease, nutritional aspects of gastrointestinal disease, home nutritional therapy, enteral and parenteral nutrition
Title(s): Pediatric Clinical Dietitian Department(s): Frances Stern Nutrition Center Appt. Phone: 617-636-5230 Fax #: 671-636-2864
Clinical Instructor, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
Title(s): Transplant Dietitian Department(s): Frances Stern Nutrition Center Appt. Phone: 617-636-5273 Fax #: 671-636-2864
Surgery, renal, cardiothoracic surgery, transplant, GI, nutrition support
Title(s): Nutrition Support Coordinator; Clinical Instructor, Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy Department(s): Frances Stern Nutrition Center Appt. Phone: 617-636-6428 Fax #: 617-636-2864
Nutrition Support, Critical Care
Title(s): Clinical Dietitian Department(s): Frances Stern Nutrition Center Appt. Phone: 617-636-5273 Fax #: 671-636-2864
Online Scheduling Available
Title(s): Co-Director, Diabetes and Lipid Center; Endocrinologist; Associate Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine Department(s): Medicine, Clinical Nutrition, Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Appt. Phone: 617-636-5689 Fax #: 617-636-4719
Diabetes, obesity, inpatient and outpatient diabetes, general endocrinology
Title(s): Ambulatory Dietitian Department(s): Nutrition, Frances Stern Nutrition Center Appt. Phone: 617-636-5273 Fax #: 617-636-2864
Hematology/Oncology, Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes, Cardiac Health
Clinic hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
**Patients are advised to bring a referral from a health care practitioner in order to make an appointment so that all the relevant medical information can be made available, and to ensure that if your insurance covers the visit it can be billed appropriately.**
860 Washington Street South Building, Mezzanine Level Boston, MA 02111 Located within the Weight and Wellness Center
Phone: (617) 636-5273 (outpatient services) or (617) 636 5275 (administrative offices)
