SHEILA G. DEAN, MS,  RD, LD/N, CDE is a registered and licensed dietitian, certified diabetes educator and exercise physiologist. She received her undergraduate training through Rutgers University, completed her internship and graduate training with University of Rhode Island and Brown University teaching hospitals and received her post graduate training in advanced functional medicine and  clinical nutrition.

She later went to work with the Duke University Medical Center's Endocrinology and  Metabolism Disorders Clinic and the Joslin Center for Diabetes. She is  currently working on her doctoral degree in nutritional genomics (genes) through the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey.

An educator at heart, Sheila has taught Human Nutrition for nursing students at St. Petersburg College and the University of Tampa.  She's lectured groups from preschool age to the elderly, authored book reviews and articles regularly for The St. Petersburg Times, Ms. Fitness Magazine, the Ironmanlive.com website and frequently appears on WTSP-CBS-News Channel 10 and WFLA-NBC-News Channel 8 for interviews. Shiela has previously served as the consulting sports nutritionist for the Philadelphia Phillies and as media spokesperson for the Ironman Institute.

Sheila is the author of Nutrition & Endurance: Where Do I  Begin? and is also a certified health and fitness instructor with The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) The Aerobics and Fitness Association of America (AFAA) The YMCA of America.