ACEND Board

The ACEND board is the governing unit of ACEND which grants final accreditation awards. As a decision-making body of a federally-recognized accrediting agency, the board must include at least one academic, educator, practitioner, administrator and public member. The ACEND board includes: A chair, a vice chair, a past chair, at least one representative for each program type (Dietetic Technician, Didactic, Coordinated, and Dietetic Internship), at least one practitioner representative for each credential offered by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (Dietetic Technician Registered and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist), at least one program administrator or representative of other stakeholders, one dietetics student, and one representative of the public. Information about qualifications and requirements for ACEND board positions can be found in the ACEND board positions can be found in the ACEND Policy & Procedure Handbook.

2024-2025 Board

Chair:
Nancy T. Prange, PhD, MPH, MS, RDN, LDN
Director, Dietetic Internship
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, Ill.

Vice Chair:
Janet Stuhrcke, DCN, RD, FAND
Director, Graduate Program in Nutrition and Dietetics
Fairfield University
Fairfield, Conn.

Past ACEND Chair:
Long Wang, PhD, RDN, FAND
Clinical Professor, Director, Graduate Program in Nutrition and Dietetics
University of the Pacific
Sacramento, Calif.

Coordinated Program in Dietetics (CP) Representative:
Dena French, EdD, RYT, RDN, LD
Director, Coordinated Program in Dietetics
Fontbonne University
St. Louis, Mo.

Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) Representative:
Kendra Kattelmann, PhD, RDN, LN, FAND
Distinguished Professor, Director, Health and Consumer Sciences Division
South Dakota State University
Brookings, S.D.

Ellis Morrow, DCN, MS, RDN, LD, FAND
Director of Nutritional Sciences and Dietetics Post-Doctoral Interprofessional Education Research Fellowship
Texas Southern University
Houston, Texas

Didactic Program in Dietetics (DPD) Representative-elect:
Deborah Hutcheon, DCN, RD, LD
Associate Clinical Professor, Graduate Program in Applied Nutrition
University of New England
Portland, Maine

Dietetic Internship (DI) Program and Program Administrator Representative:
Crystal Wynn, PhD, MPH, RD
Associate Professor, Department Chair, Department of Family and Consumer Sciences, Director, Dietetic Internship
Virginia State University
Petersburg, Va.

Dietetic Internship (DI) Program Representative:
Kimberly Gottesman, DCN, RD, LD, CNSC
Assistant Professor, Director, Didactic Program in Dietetics, Department of Nutrition and Food Science
California State University Los Angeles
Los Angeles, Calif.

Dietetic Internship (DI) Program Representative-elect:
Claudia Sealey-Potts, PhD, RD, LD, FAND
Professor and Director, Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, Texas

Dietetic Technician (DT) Program Representative:
Michelle Palumbo, NDTR
Dietetic Technician
Cleveland Clinic
Parma, Ohio

Program Representative at-Large:
Jennifer Tomesko, DCN, RD, CNSC
Assistant Professor, Program Director, Future Graduate Program, Department of Clinical and Preventive Nutrition Sciences
Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences
Newark, N.J.

Kelli Killingsworth, MPH, RDN, LND
Director, Faculty Instructor, Academic Programs
Universidad Ana G. Mendez-Gurabo Campus
Gurabo, P.R.

Program Representative at-Large-elect:
Le Greta Hudson MS, RDN, LD, CDCES, FAND
Adjunct Instructor, Department of Nutrition and Exercise Physiology
University of Missouri
Columbia, Mo.

Practitioner Representatives:
Gloria Verdino, MS, RD, CDN
Renal Dietitian
Davita Kidney Care
Monticello, N.Y.

Annjeanette Soltysiak, NDTR
Community Health Educator
BJC Healthcare-Corporate Health Services
St. Louis, Mo.

Public Members:
Anthony Hill, PhD, LISW-CP, CFSW, ACSW
Chair, Graduate Director and Associate Professor, Department of Social Work
Winthrop University
Rock Hill, S.C.

Nicole Webb, DNP, APRN-BC, FNP-BC
Associate Dean, College of Health, Science and Technology
University of Central Missouri
Warrensburg, Mo.

Kerry McNiven, MS, RRT, FAARC
Independent Contractor
Kettering National Seminars
Dayton, Ohio

ACEND Student Representative:
Trenton Voss
Dietetic Student
University of Houston
Houston, Texas

ACEND Student Representative-elect:
Kaitlyn Good
Dietetic Student
James Madison University
Harrisonburg, Va.