Read::Talk::Walk GUEST, BONNIE JORTBERG, MS, RD

Bonnie Jortberg is coauthor of The Step Diet Book (Workman Publishing) and also holds a faculty position in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center (UCDHSC).

At UCDHSC since 1995, she started in the Department of Preventive Medicine as one of the study coordinators for the Diabetes Prevention Program. She then moved to the Center for Human Nutrition where she was the Program Director for COLORADO WEIGH, a community-based weight management program.

Jortberg is a faculty member of the American Dietetic Association and has lectured around the country about obesity prevention and treatment. An avid cross-country skier in winter, Bonnie runs daily on the trails by her home in Colorado, where she stays active with her husband, two children, two dogs and a cat.

Photo Credit: University of Colorado