Prior to joining Kingley Health, John was The Coordinator of Bariatric Surgery and Critical Care Nutrition at St. Francis Medical Center in Trenton, NJ.  For almost the last 6 years, John was responsible for coordinating bariatric surgery patients through pre- and postoperative clinical pathways.  He also provided medical nutrition therapy for both inpatient and outpatient bariatric patients in addition to delivering daily inpatient nutrition support assessment and intervention with critical care patients.   He has also consulted for Johnson and Johnson on their Realize Band product and marketing efforts.  During his time at St. Francis, John has served as a preceptor for dietetic interns.  He has previous clinical experience with renal and hepatic patients at Albert Einstein Medical Center and with a private dialysis company. He also has experience at counseling cardiac rehab patients on nutrition.

For the last 12 years, John has been a prolific writer for both clinical and general interest publications on topics of nutrition.  He also has teaching experience at both Rutgers and UMDNJ in food chemistry and applied physiology.

John is a 1995 graduate of Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Science in Nutritional Science and Dietetics.  He did his internship and completed some graduate work at the University of Pittsburgh.  He received his Master of Science degree from Central Michigan University in 2003.  John is one year away from receiving his Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition from UMDNJ with a specialization in bariatric nutrition having already successfully completed and defended his doctoral thesis on "The Relationship Between Preoperative Weight Loss and Postoperative Weight Loss at Six Months and Twelve Months after Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass” (2009). A retrospective study of 246 subjects that underwent RYGB at St. Francis Medical Center."