Description:

Dr. Moeller is a nutritional epidemiologist, educator, and spiritual director. She is currently the chief consultant and founder of Eating Joyfully, Inc. where she provides evidence-based consultation and research evaluation related to nutrition, food allergies and overall health to help clinicians and organizations provide optimal care, policies, and products. She also utilizes her skills as a trained spiritual director to design and lead workshops that help people identify their own unique reasons behind the health behaviors they choose - with the ultimate goal of helping people eat more healthfully, with more joy, more often.

She is currently an Associate Professor for Nursing in the Health Sciences at North Park University and lectures in the Northwestern University School of Professional Studies.

Her work experience includes 7 years as a senior scientist at the American Medical Association (AMA), where she provided expertise and support on scientific and public policy issues related to diet and nutrition, and helped develop and evaluate several educational resources for healthcare professionals and patients, including the AMA Healthier Life Steps® program. At AMA, Dr. Moeller also served as staff author for a number of reports for the AMA’s Council on Science and Public Health, including its reports on eating disorders, high fructose corn syrup, vitamin D, sustainable food systems, sugar-sweetened beverage taxes, and obesity.

Prior to joining the AMA, Dr. Moeller worked in academia, researching the role of diet, particularly overall dietary patterns, on age-related eye diseases. She also did (non-nutrition) research on HIV transmission from mothers to infants and on the genetics of asthma.

Dr. Moeller received her BS in Biological Sciences and Hispanic Studies from the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and her MS in Human Nutrition Science and PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston. She completed her post-doctoral work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.