Nutrition

Nutrition
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We only accept referrals from within the MCH.

Contact

BS1.2238

514-412-4400 ext. 23873

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Nutrition

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

Alexandra Campbell
Julie Cliche

Stéphanie Comtois
Florence Pépin

Nutritionists

Peggy Alcindor
Nathalie Andraos
Valerie Bouzo
Tal Brandis
Abigail Brodovitch
Emilie Cadorette
Karen Casey
Chantal David
Sarrangi Elaiyappah
Catherine Farez-Kamanzi

Julie Forget
Émilie Hébert
Irem Karamanoglu
Meighan Kennedy
Maude Lafontaine-Hébert
Merry Liu
Lilian Lopez Leyv
Shani Lugasi
Lily Macdonald
Anissa Miele

Emilia Morelli
Caroline Porraccio
Julia Sagaria
Claudia Sévigny
Elizabeth Simboli
Vanessa Smrk
Marie-Josée Trempe
Erika Valente
Mariana Velly Miguel
Sarah Zlotnick

Food Technician

Julia Corbin-Brunet

Administrative assistants

Zelda Mackay

Amal Benmecheri

Resources

Please ask a member of the Clinical Nutrition team for the password to access some of the documents below.

Celiac disease and the gluten-free diet (password protected)
Special formula (password protected)
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