Dr. Jessica Pizano
Dr. Jessica Pizano
Dr. Jessica Pizano graduated with honors from the University of Bridgeport's master's nutrition program and earned a doctorate of Clinical Nutrition at the Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH). During her years in academia, she developed a passion for helping those with rare diseases.
An adjunct faculty member at both MUIH and at Sonoran University of Health Sciences, she teaches nutritional genomics at the master’s and doctoral levels.
She has contributed to a series of 11 peer-reviewed journal articles on the microbiome and has written two chapters on nutritional genomics in Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy. She contributed a chapter on nutrition in the book Transforming Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome which included the first nutritional guidelines for EDS.
Dr. Pizano is an owner of Mast Cell Advanced Diagnostics (link to www.mastcelladvanceddiagnostics.com) and a co-owner of Clinical Paradigms (link to www.clinicalparadigms.com). Her clinical focus is on using nutrition, nutritional genomics and metabolomics to help patients with EDS, mast cell activation disorders, dysautonomia, and other related conditions. Dr. Pizano is also a member of the pain management working group of the International Consortium on Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders facilitated by the Ehlers-Danlos Society.
