PhD, RDN, FAND, FADA CEO & Founder of Genquest Nutrition Solutions

Dr. Sachiko St. Jeor

Dr. Sachiko St. Jeor, President and CEO of GenQuest Nutrition is Internationally renowned for her 50+ years of contributions to the field of nutrition, dietetics and medical education. Over the years, she has received numerous accolades, including the 2013 Marjorie Copher Award, the highest honor awarded to members of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She also received the Academy’s excellence in Practice in Dietetics Research (1995) and Medallion Award (1996). She has also received recognition and honors from other societies, including the Award for Excellence in Medical/Dental Nutrition Education from the American Society for Nutrition in 2007. She was a member of the prestigious 1995 US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee setting standards for the nation. Her efforts include collaborations with many other professional societies to create interdisciplinary approaches, particularly for weight management, and has been recognized as a Fellow in The Obesity Society, Society of Behavioral Medicine and two councils with the American Heart Association (Epidemiology and Prevention and Nutrition, Physical Activity and Metabolism). As an active member of the Academy, she served as Chair of the Research Council and has been invited to chair and speak at many national, regional and local meetings. Dr. St. Jeor has been honored as a visiting professor, lecturer, mentor and commencement speaker to many dietetic internship and graduate nutrition and medical school programs. She served as a member of the American Heart Association’s Nutrition Committee, as well as a member of 3 NIH study sections (Behavioral Medicine, Epidemiology & Disease Control, Health Context & Behavior), as well as the NHLBI Clinical Applications and Prevention Advisory Committee. The NIH study sections provided leadership for the integration of clinical nutrition research and enhanced role of dietitians in important clinical studies. Her diverse expertise in the above roles has made her a popular consultant for USA Today and Consumer Reports. Dr. St. Jeor is well known for her many innovative contributions to the field of nutrition, clinical medicine and dietetics. As a metabolic dietitian at the University of Utah Clinical Research Center (1965), she developed the protein and potassium exchange lists for the management of renal patients, dialyzed potatoes to lower their potassium content, established nomenclature and procedures for balance studies, and created one of the first nutrient analyses systems using Handbook 8 —which only contained about 396 foods and 26 nutrients in the late 1960’s.

As an instructor in the Department. of Behavioral Sciences at the M.S. Hershey Medical Center of the Pennsylvania State University (1975), she designed outpatient behavioral studies, established the 7- day food record as the gold standard for evaluating nutrient intake, and originated one of the first Behavioral Nutrition Clinics for weight management, setting an example of the use of indirect calorimeters, bioelectrical impedance, and pedometers in dietetic practice. After obtaining a Ph.D. from the Department of Nutrition at the Pennsylvania State University in 1980, she moved to the University of Nevada School of Medicine where she was responsible for the development of the statewide Nutrition Education and Research Program (NERP, 1984) and Special Qualifications for Nutrition (SQIN) program for medical students. As PI of the NHLBI funded RENO Diet-Heart Study, she mentored Mark Mifflin as the first SQIN student in the development of the Mifflin- St. Jeor Equation (MSJE, 1990) for the prediction of Resting Energy Expenditure (REE). The MSJE is now recommended for use worldwide. Other accomplishments she achieved at the University of Nevada include demonstration of the use of the portable indirect calorimeter and physical activity trackers in the Weight Management Clinic (2000), definition of criteria for weight maintenance and fluctuations as a basis for assessment, and the introduction of innovative diet programs with interdisciplinary collaborations as the Director of the Center for Nutrition and Metabolism and Professor in the Department of Medicine (2000-2012). She is now Professor Emerita of Clinical Medicine at the University of Nevada, Reno and is pursuing her passion of creating new approaches to improve the assessment of energy balance on a more personalized basis. She is intent on leading the profession through interdisciplinary collaborations with St. Jeor Associates of GenQuest Nutrition Solutions “ beyond the Mifflin St Jeor Equation ”.