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Editorial Board

Every member of the editorial board is a credentialed Registered Dietitian or Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. Specialty credentials (CSSD, CDCES, etc.) reflect each editor's primary practice area.

Sarah Wexler

RDN, CSSD, CDCES

Editor-in-Chief

Sarah Wexler has practiced clinical nutrition for eighteen years across outpatient endocrinology, sports performance, and integrated weight management. She built RD Recommended from the conviction that practicing dietitians needed a publication that took methodology and credentialing as seriously as they took outcomes. At RD Recommended she sets editorial direction, oversees peer review, and writes the GLP-1 protocol series. Sarah practiced for nine years in an academic medical center weight-management clinic before transitioning into editorial work; she still maintains a part-time outpatient caseload of patients on GLP-1 receptor agonists. She holds the Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics credential (CSSD) and is a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES). Her work has appeared in practitioner contexts in publications of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and at SCAN-DPG continuing education events.

Specialties: Clinical nutrition, Weight management, GLP-1 protocols, Outpatient endocrinology nutrition, Editorial leadership

Training & affiliations: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND); Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)

Member of: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition (SCAN) DPG; Weight Management DPG

Dr. Marcus Ohaeri

PhD, RDN

Senior Research Editor

Marcus Ohaeri is a behavioral nutrition researcher with a doctorate in nutritional sciences and active RDN credentialing. His research career has focused on adherence — how patients actually use dietary assessment tools in the wild — and on the methodology of dietary self-report. Before joining RD Recommended, he spent eleven years in academic research, where his work centered on validating photo-based dietary assessment tools against doubly-labeled water reference measurements. He retains an active research-affiliate appointment and continues to write peer-reviewed nutrition methodology work. At RD Recommended he oversees the cohort-research program, vets survey instruments before fielding, and serves as the methodology peer reviewer of last resort. He is particularly skeptical of vendor-published accuracy claims that cannot be independently replicated, and he writes the publication's framework pieces on measurement-grade versus marketing-grade calorie tracking.

Specialties: Behavioral nutrition, Dietary assessment methodology, Adherence research, Photo-AI validation, Cohort study design

Training & affiliations: Penn State University, Department of Nutritional Sciences; Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy; Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)

Member of: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; American Society for Nutrition (ASN); Research DPG

Priya Saadat

RDN, CSSD

Sports Practice Editor

Priya Saadat is a board-certified sports dietitian who has spent the better part of a decade working with collegiate athletes, physique-sport competitors, and recreational endurance athletes. She earned the Certified Specialist in Sports Dietetics (CSSD) credential in her third year of practice and has since worked alongside strength and conditioning staff in NCAA programs, advised contest-prep athletes through full competition cycles, and authored intake-form templates that are in use at three university athletic departments. At RD Recommended she edits the sport-nutrition coverage — contest prep, intra-training fueling, recovery — and writes the publication's evaluations of nutrition apps for athletic populations. Her perspective: sport-nutrition apps that work for sedentary weight-management users frequently fall over once macronutrient periodization, training-day variability, and intra-workout fueling enter the picture, and the publication's reviews reflect that distinction.

Specialties: Sports nutrition, Physique-sport contest prep, NCAA athletics nutrition, Endurance fueling, Macronutrient periodization

Training & affiliations: University of Connecticut, Department of Nutritional Sciences; Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)

Member of: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition (SCAN) DPG; Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association (CPSDA)

Hannah Kerrigan

MS, RDN, CDCES

Clinical Practice Editor

Hannah Kerrigan holds an MS in clinical nutrition and is a Certified Diabetes Care and Education Specialist (CDCES) with eight years of practice spanning pediatric endocrinology, adult primary care, and pediatric oncology nutrition. At RD Recommended she edits the case-study program — every de-identified case report passes her review before publication — and writes the publication's chronic-disease and GLP-1 nutrition coverage from the pediatric and primary-care perspective. She co-developed an intake-form template for pediatric GLP-1 prescribing that is in use at several primary-care pediatric practices. Hannah's clinical writing leans pragmatic: she's skeptical of nutrition recommendations that work in a study population but fall apart when a family has a fifteen-minute appointment slot and a teenager who won't text back. She maintains an active clinical caseload one day a week and writes from the kind of grounded practitioner perspective that survey research alone can't reach.

Specialties: GLP-1 protocols, Pediatric clinical nutrition, Diabetes care and education, Chronic disease nutrition, Primary care nutrition workflow

Training & affiliations: Cornell University, Division of Nutritional Sciences; Boston University Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences; Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR)

Member of: Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; Pediatric Nutrition DPG; Diabetes DPG; Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists (ADCES)