Nurse-Led Health Education and Behavior Counseling

Erica, our Program Director, has over 20 years of experience caring for patients who have heart disease or its’ risk factors. She is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and a board-certified Clinical Lipid Specialist (Advanced Cholesterol Management). Her education background includes a Master of Nursing from the University of Central Florida and a Master of Nutrition from Columbia University. She has completed advanced education in diabetes, cardiometabolic health, and complex lipid disorders. Her experience includes bedside patient care, creating and teaching healthy lifestyle classes, running a preventive cardiology program, and providing both in-person and tele-health behavior counseling for weight management and cardiovascular risk factor modification.

Her passion is to empower individuals through education and behavior counseling to beat heart disease through lifestyle modification.

I wanted to thank you for taking the time with me on Friday. It was really great to hear I could make small changes, since anything too drastic feels unattainable. (We need baby steps.. LoL)

Side note: I made the vegetarian chili Sunday, and it was really good. (even my oldest daughter liked it)

The best part was the bean burritos I made for lunch. Very Yummy!

Thanks again for all your help!

This heart healthy lifestyle class helped me be more aware and alert of how food is labeled and the actual content of so-called healthy foods.

I have a much better understanding of my personal risk factors and what I can do to lower my risk of heart disease.

Everything I learned was extremely helpful! You showed me a great app that I can use to help me eat healthier. Thank you.