Doctor of Clinical Nutrition  

Contact Information:

📞  +1 717 917 5259

✉️  fusionihw@gmail.com

🏥  Fusion Integrative Health & Wellness, LLC

🌐  Website

📍 6 Violet Ave #70, Willow Street, PA, 17584, United States

✔ Accepting new patients

Practitioner Certifications: 
- Doctor of Clinical Nutrition (DCN)
- Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN)
- Licensed Dietitian Nutritionist (LDN)
- Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (FAND)
- Functional Medicine Academy Certified Practitioner (FMACP)

Languages: 
English

Client Age Range:
 30–40 | 40–50 | 50–60 | 60+

Professional Background:

Dr. Dana M. Elia, DCN, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND, is a Doctor of Clinical Nutrition and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist specializing in integrative and functional nutrition. With 30 years of experience, she provides personalized, evidence-informed nutrition care for women navigating midlife and menopause, with expertise in gastrointestinal health, metabolic health, nutrigenomics, oncology nutrition, cancer survivorship, laboratory interpretation, and supplement safety.

Dr. Elia holds a Bachelor of Science in Human Ecology–Dietetics from Montclair State University, a Master of Health Sciences in Integrative Health and Wellness from Rutgers University, and a Doctorate in Clinical Nutrition from Maryland University of Integrative Health. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (FAND), recognizing her professional contributions and commitment to lifelong learning.

Her whole-person approach considers each patient's symptoms, medical history, medications, supplements, lifestyle, genetics, nutritional status, and individual goals. Through telehealth, she helps women translate complex health information and laboratory findings into practical, sustainable nutrition and lifestyle strategies. Her work emphasizes individualized clinical reasoning, appropriate supplement use, and recommendations designed to complement conventional medical care.

Dr. Elia also brings extensive experience in nutrition education and professional training. She serves as an Associate Professor of Nutrition and Director of Experiential Learning at Notre Dame of Maryland University and has held faculty, curriculum development, and clinical supervision roles at other educational institutions. She is also the author of The Sugar Detox Diet for 50+ and The Stem Cell Activation Diet.

As a cancer survivor herself, Dr. Elia has a personal understanding of the complexities of navigating health challenges. She supports women experiencing menopause after cancer treatment, including breast and gynecologic cancer survivors, women taking hormone-blocking medications, those experiencing treatment-induced menopause, and women at high genetic risk who have undergone preventive surgery. Her nutrition care considers treatment history, medication interactions, bone and cardiometabolic health, body composition, gastrointestinal symptoms, and overall nutritional needs, with careful attention to supplement safety and coordination with oncology and medical care.

Years of Practice: 30 years of experience in clinical nutrition, dietetics, integrative and functional nutrition, Medical Nutrition Therapy, oncology nutrition, and women’s midlife health.

Get personalized, evidence-informed nutrition support with Dr. Elia, combining functional nutrition expertise and thoughtful clinical guidance to support menopause, metabolic and digestive health, and nutritional needs during cancer survivorship.

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