Karen Amorde-Spalding, MS, RD, CSP
Clinical Nutrition Manager
Education: Masters of Science in Nutrition, University of California, Davis
Language(s): English
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Karen Amorde-Spalding, rd, Nutrition
Summary
Karen Amorde-Spalding, MS, RD, CSP is an expert in pediatric nutrition. She is responsible for coordinating and providing medical nutrition therapy to children with complex medical and nutritional conditions. She works with various departments within Children’s Hospital & Research Center Oakland to address the nutritional needs of children whose health is either directly impacted by their nutritional intake, such as patients with diabetes or cystic fibrosis, or whose diets may not be age appropriate, which could result in patients being under or over weight. Customized nutritional programs are also important for children involved in traumas such as car accidents and those diagnosed with serious illnesses including cancers, tumors and anemias.
Karen leads Children’s Hospital Oakland’s Ketogenic Diet Program, the largest program of its kind in Northern California with more than 125 patients treated. She feels comfortable discussing this program as well as providing tips on developing good nutritional habits for children, breast feeding and therapeutic diets for children.
Compelling Fact
When carefully monitored by an experienced medical team, the ketogenic diet helps control seizures in 2 out of 3 children with epilepsy.
Source: Epilepsy Foundation
http://www.epilepsyfoundation.org/answerplace/Medical/treatment/diet/
Expertise
- Pediatric Nutrition
- Ketogenic Diet
Pediatric Nutrition
Comprehensive nutrition assessments care plans, and follow-up on all patients deemed at elevated nutrition risk.
Ketogenic Diet
Children’s Hospital Oakland has the largest Ketogenic Diet Program in northern California and has served more than 125 patients. The ketogenic diet, which is very high in fats and low in carbohydrates, makes the body use fat for energy instead of glucose. It was first developed almost 80 years ago.
Professional and Personal background
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