Nutrition
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Clinical nutritionists provide complete nutritional assessments and develop individualized nutritional intervention plans for children whose medical condition affects or may affect their nutritional status. They specialize notably in nutritional support.
Services
Nutritionists are active members of a number of multidisciplinary specialty teams throughout the hospital, on care units and in outpatient clinics. These teams include:
- Neonatal and pediatric intensive care units
- Medical, surgical and hematology-oncology units
- Neonatal follow-up clinic
- Perinatal care, including the Birthing Centre, gestational diabetes, multiple pregnancies, general obstetrics and IVF.
- Complex Care clinic
- Endocrinology (diabetes) clinic
- Gastroenterology clinic
- Adolescent Medicine clinic (eating disorders and bariatric surgery)
- Genetics clinic (metabolic diseases)
- Nephrology clinic
- Neurology clinic (intractable epilepsy)
- Cystic fibrosis clinic
- Pediatric feeding clinic
Referrals
The Clinical Nutrition service accepts cases referred from physicians who work at the Montreal Children’s Hospital. Our nutritionists cannot accept referrals from professionals in the community. For a referral, please call 514-412-4400, ext. 23873.
Team
Professional coordinator
Marie-Eve Besner
Diet technicians
Stéphanie Comtois
Marie-Hélène Lavoie
Florence Pépin
Laura Naim-Zadeh
Hanine Monhem
Alexandra Campbell
Florence Lelièvre
Nutritionists
Peggy Alcindor
Nathalie Andraos
Valerie Bouzo
Abigail Brodovitch
Emilie Cadorette
Karen Casey
Chantal David
Catherine Farez-Kamanzi
Julie Forget
Émilie Hébert
Irem Karamanoglu
Meighan Kennedy
Maude Lafontaine-Hébert
Shani Lugasi
Vanessa Maggio
Emilia Morelli
Lisa Piperno
Caroline Porraccio
Julia Sagaria
Claudia Sévigny
Marie-Josée Trempe
Erika Valente
Sarah Zlotnick
Elizabeth Simboli
Tal Brandis
Rosemarie Cianti
Merry Liu
Caitlin Hier
Administrative assistant
Zelda Mackay
Amal Benmecheri
Resources
Please ask a member of the Clinical Nutrition team for the password to access some of the documents below.