Nutrition Fellowships for Physicians
The University of Colorado School of Medicine (CU SOM) Department of Pediatrics and Children's Hospital Colorado (CHCO) offer both clinical and research fellowship opportunities for physicians. Read about our clinical and research nutrition fellowships below.
Pediatric Clinical Obesity and Nutrition Fellowship:
The University of Colorado School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics and Children's Hospital Colorado offer a one-year Pediatric Obesity and Clinical Nutrition Fellowship program. The goal of the fellowship is to provide physicians who are board certified or eligible in pediatrics or family medicine with in-depth training in pediatric obesity and clinical nutrition that will prepare them for a career in clinical or academic medicine.
Program strengths include:
- Superior academic subspecialty training in a professional, collegial atmosphere.
- Teaching by national and international experts across multiple disciplines. Our fellows work with faculty across numerous fields including Nutrition, Endocrinology, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, and Pulmonology. Faculty offer a broad range of complementary clinical and research expertise.
- One-on-one working relationships between fellows and supervising faculty.
- Broad exposure to clinical nutrition both inpatient and outpatient, with both common and rare diagnoses.
- Opportunities to obtain in-depth training in each fellow’s specific area of interest.
- Long-standing fellowship program with more than 15 years in existence. Fellows join the Section of Nutrition at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, which was the 1st independent section of nutrition in pediatrics in the United States.
- Participation in the education of residents and medical students.
- The dedicated time of the fellowship enables trainees to develop the knowledge and skills needed to pursue a range of career options including academic medicine and inpatient and outpatient pediatric clinical care.
Potential career options:
- General Pediatrics – Academic or community-based
- Academic career including research and teaching
- Nutrition specialty clinical care
- GI related clinical care
- Primary care specialist
- Global Health
Recent fellows are currently engaged in weight management programs (in both academic and non-academic settings), growth faltering clinical programs, promotion of nutrition in health care at the national level, nutrition-related QI, GI-related research, obesity-related research including clinical care, pharmacotherapy and community-based research.
Nutrition Research Fellowship:
Physicians are eligible to apply for the NIH T32 Research Fellowship. For most physicians, this will be upon completion of the Clinical Obesity and Nutrition Fellowship (listed above). For more information, visit the Nutrition NIH T32 Research Fellowship main page here.
Our fellowship program offers training in key areas including, but not limited to:
- Obesity: Infant to Adolescent
- Growth faltering/FTT
- Malnutrition
- Behavioral medicine
- Nutrition support
- Metabolism in critical illness
- Well child nutrition, including breastfeeding and infant feeding
Through our program, fellows have unique opportunities to develop skills in:
- Assessment and treatment of growth problems
- Assessment and treatment of inpatient & outpatient nutrition problems
- Body composition, calorimetry
- Breastfeeding assessment and management
- Inpatient/critical care nutrition support
- Micronutrient requirements, deficiencies
- Motivational interviewing
- Multidisciplinary obesity assessment and treatment including pharmacotherapy and bariatric surgery
- Public health nutrition policy
Clinical training consists of 12 months of clinical service in pediatric obesity and nutrition:
- Pediatric obesity training occurs both inpatient and outpatient through the Children’s Hospital Colorado Lifestyle Medicine Program. This multi-disciplinary program involves numerous different disciplines including medical and surgical specialties, dietitians, clinical psychology, and exercise physiology. Training in related areas in adult medicine is also available as appropriate to the trainee's interests.
- Nutrition (non-obesity related) training occurs during both inpatient consults, inpatient training (NICU, PICU) and outpatient clinics, including work in our Children’s Hospital Colorado Growth and Parenting clinic. Training covers assessment and treatment of growth and nutrition problems, breastfeeding assessment and management, and inpatient and outpatient nutrition support.
- Other nutrition related training opportunities are tailored to individuals’ interests, such as cystic fibrosis, hyperlipidemia, short gut syndrome, and others.
- For GI-trained physicians, our fellowship, through a partnership with our GI department, is able to offer the following experiences as a component of the 12-month fellowship program:
- Outpatient GI clinic opportunities
- Educational GI opportunities
- GI career mentorship
- Potential opportunities for GI/Nutrition-related research, if completing a research fellowship
- Potential GI procedural opportunities
Research training:
Research training is available following the 12-month clinical training year under our NIH T32 Research Fellowship.
In additional to the clinical training, fellows participate in the following:
Nutrition Rounds: These are bimonthly meetings with nutrition faculty and hospital dietitians to discuss current clinical cases.
Collaborative Case review: Faculty, clinical staff and fellows attend this meeting aiming to collaboratively identify system level issues and solutions to improve the quality and safety of care provided.
GI/Nutrition Case conference: A joint meeting of faculty and trainees from both the Nutrition and GI sections.
Nutrition seminar series: A yearlong series of talks from experts sharing the latest in nutrition research.
Nutrition journal club: A joint faculty/fellow journal club.
Lifestyle Medicine meeting: Program planning for the Lifestyle Medicine program.
Department of Pediatrics Education Series: Fellows participate in this series as an adjunct to their clinical training. Session topics include mentorship, providing feedback, forming your research question, quality improvement, professionalism, presentation skills.
Motivational interviewing: We encourage all fellows to participate in on on-campus training course on this topic as an adjunct to their clinical practice.
Eligibility:
This program is designed for motivated physicians with an interest in a career that involves nutrition medicine. We encourage applications from members of under-represented minority groups. Physicians who are in the process of completing or have completed an ACGME-accredited residency training program that includes substantial pediatric training may apply (e.g., Pediatrics, Med/Peds, Family Medicine). The Pediatric Clinical Obesity and Nutrition Fellowship complies with the GME Eligibility and Selection Policy International medical school graduates will only be considered if they completed their residency training in a U.S. or Canadian ACGME-accredited residency program.
Non-ACGME Fellowship Application Requirements:
Since our program is non-ACGME accredited, we do not participate in the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP). You may review the GME Non-ACGME-Accredited Fellowship Program Policies here.
Please complete and submit the following 4 items electronically to ClinicalNutrition@CUAnschutz.edu:
Download the Pediatric Clinical Obesity & Nutrition Fellowship Application here.
- Personal Information Form (See page 3 of Application for instructions)
- Curriculum Vitae and List of References (See page 4 for more details)
- Personal Statement (See page 5 for more details)
- Three Letters of Recommendations (See page 5 for more details)
- One letter must be from a current program director
Application Submission Timeline:
Applications for non-ACGME programs, including the Pediatric Clinical Obesity and Nutrition Fellowship Program at the University of Colorado, are accepted on a rolling basis. Applicants who apply to our program should allow 2-3 months from the time the application is submitted to when a decision is made by Program Leadership and the Program Recruitment Committee. Our fellowship positions typically begin July 1 of each academic year.
We are currently accepting applications for a start date of July 1, 2025.
Salary and Benefits
The University of Colorado offers salary and benefits packages that are competitive with other fellowship programs across the country. Current salary levels can be found at the School of Medicine - Graduate Medical Education Stipends Page.
For additional information about the application process, please contact:
Carolina Jensen (she/her)
Fellowship Program Coordinator
Children’s Hospital Colorado
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 E 16th Ave, Box B265
Aurora, CO 80045
Tel: 720-777-3187
Fax 720-777-7301
Email: Carolina.Jensen@childrenscolorado.org
For questions regarding program requirements, training and educational opportunities, please contact:
Matthew Haemer, MD, MPH (he/him)
Program Director, Pediatric Clinical Obesity and Nutrition Fellowship
Children’s Hospital Colorado
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 E 16th Ave, Box B265
Aurora, CO 80045
Email: Matthew.Haemer@CUAnschutz.edu
Stephanie Gilley, MD, PhD (she/her)
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Clinical Obesity and Nutrition Fellowship
Children’s Hospital Colorado
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
13123 E 16th Ave, Box B265
Aurora, CO 80045
Email: Stephanie.Gilley@childrenscolorado.org
Current Clinical Nutrition Fellows
Tiera Nell, MD (2023-2024)
Current Position: Instructor, Pediatrics, Hospital Medicine, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Residency: Children’s Medical Center of Dallas, University of Texas, Southwestern Medical School
Medical School: Medical College of Wisconsin
Recent Clinical Nutrition Alumni Fellows
Mohamed Kuziez, MD, FAAP (2023-2024)
Current Position: Instructor, Pediatrics, Hospital Medicine, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Residency: Hospital Episcopal San Lucas
Medical School: San Juan Bautista School of Medicine
Anthony Wang, MD, PhD (2022-2023) Clinical and Research Nutrition Fellow
Current Position: Fellow, Nutrition T32 Research Fellowship, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Residency: Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Medical School: University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine
Clinical/Research Interests: My research interests are to investigate epigenetic mechanisms that may predispose an individual to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) and excess adiposity early in life including perinatal exposures.
Allison Ta, MD (2021-2022)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
GI Fellowship: Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Residency: Inova Fairfax Children’s Hospital
Medical School: Duke University School of Medicine
Clinical/Research Interests: Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Exclusive Enteral Nutrition in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Pneumatosis, Malnutrition in critically ill patients, Gastroenterology Imaging, Sarcopenia
Stephanie W. Waldrop, MD, MPH (2020-2021) Clinical and Research Nutrition Fellow
Current Position: Instructor, Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO
Residency: Morehouse School of Medicine
Medical School: Wayne State University School of Medicine
Clinical/Research Interests: Research interests include identifying potential epigenetic predictors of adiposity risk in childhood and the influence maternal 1-carbon nutrient intake may have on DNA methylation and adiposity in offspring.
Stephanie Gilley, MD, PhD (2019-2020) Clinical and Research Nutrition Fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Children’s Hospital Colorado; Associate Program Director, Pediatric Clinical Obesity & Nutrition Fellowship
Residency: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Clinical/Research Interests: Research focuses on how early nutritional exposures in the first 1000 days impact long term health and development through the gut microbiome.
Martine Saint-Cyr, MD (2018-2019) Clinical and Research Nutrition Fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition on the Washington University School of Medicine’s (WUSM)/St. Louis Children's Hospital
GI Fellowship: Weill Cornell Medical College/New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Residency: Maria Fareri’s Children’s Hospital at New York Medical College
Center, Pediatric Gastroenterology fellowship
Medical School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Clinical/Research Interests: Nutrimetabolomics, inflammatory bowel disease and short bowel syndrome
Alexandra King, MD (2017-2018)
Current Position: Pediatric Primary Care, Assistant Clinical Director, Child and Youth Center, UI Health Boarded, National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists
Residency: University of Illinois at Chicago
Medical School: Ohio State University
Clinical/Research Interests: Breastfeeding, Weight Counseling and Management
Carina Kugelmas, MD, FAAP (2016-2017)
Current Position: Clinical Instructor, Pediatrics, Emergency Medicine, Denver Health
Residency: University of Kentucky Medical Center
Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of USC
Jaime Moore, MD, MPH (2015-2016) Clinical and Research Nutrition Fellow
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Section of Nutrition, University of Colorado
Residency: Ohio State University & Nationwide Children’s Hospital (Internal Medicine & Pediatrics)
Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Clinical/Research Interests: My research focuses on studying novel approaches to personalize obesity treatment using a combination of tools including lifestyle interventions, anti-obesity pharmacotherapy, and bariatric surgery to reduce obesity-related morbidity and to minimize disparities driven by the social determinants of health and by underlying diagnoses (e.g., intellectual/developmental disabilities, hypothalamic obesity).
Liliane Diab, MD (2014-2015)
Current Position: Assistant Professor, Pediatrics, Section of Nutrition, University of Colorado; Medical Director, Growth and Parenting Clinic, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Boarded, National Board of Physician Nutrition Specialists
Residency: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Medical School: Damascus University
Matt Haemer, MD, MPH (2010-2011) Clinical and Research Nutrition Fellow
Current Position: Professor, Pediatrics, Section of Nutrition, University of Colorado; Program Director, Pediatric Clinical Obesity & Nutrition Fellowship, Children’s Hospital Colorado
Residency: University of Washington
Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Clinical/Research Interests: Childhood obesity treatment in tertiary, primary, and community settings, obesity-related health disparities, inpatient management of malnutrition, indirect calorimetry
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