Cheryl Marsland

Dr. Cheryl Marsland is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) who holds a Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition, and serves as core faculty in the Department of Integrative and Functional Nutrition at Saybrook University and within the Culinary Nutrition specialization.

Practice spans several areas recognized within nutrition in integrative and functional medicine: clinical care, culinary medicine, academics, and research, extending into community and public health, preventive care and lifestyle, and food and nutrition systems. That work has served civilian and military populations.

Medical nutrition therapy experience covers the lifecycle, from pregnancy and lactation through infancy, childhood, and adolescence into adult and older adult care, including gender-affirming nutrition. Clinical experience extends across weight management, exercise and sports performance, bone health, food allergies and intolerances, gastrointestinal conditions, and organ dysfunction spanning diabetes, thyroid, liver, kidney, and adrenal disease, as well as blood health, cardiovascular and pulmonary conditions, oncology, infectious disease, and critical, neurological, and mental health.

Dr. Marsland has experience in community and public health practice. She has experience in nutrition programming and education: public and community health initiatives, federally assisted nutrition programs, school and campus nutrition, and community and employee wellness. Additionally, she has a passion for food access and food systems: working with organizations serving the food-insecure, food policy and coalition efforts, and the foodservice systems that put those policies into practice. Both connect to health equity and to the social determinants that shape whether nutrition care reaches the people who need it.

Research orientation is scholar-practitioner focused. Dissertation experience includes a wide range of designs, including secondary analysis of national survey data, survey development and validation, phenomenology, qualitative case study, mixed methods, and practice-based program evaluation. Matching a design to the question is of particular interest.

Home is Florida, with time spent kayaking, running, hiking, and cooking.