Kelly Issokson, MS, RD, LDN

About Kelly Issokson, MS, RD, LDN

Kelly Issokson, MS, RD, LDN, is the Senior Registered Dietitian of Outpatient Nutrition at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and a nationally recognized expert in gastrointestinal nutrition. With over 16 years of clinical experience, she specializes in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and surgical nutrition. Ms. Issokson graduated magna cum laude from Johnson & Wales University and earned her MS in Nutrition from California State University, Northridge.

She serves on the National Board of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation and is a leading voice in advancing nutrition as part of multidisciplinary IBD care. She co-developed the Cedars-Sinai IBD Prehabilitation Program and recently received a grant from the Helmsley Charitable Trust to develop and direct an educational IBD nutrition training program for physicians, APPs, and RDs.