Erika Ireland is a Registered Dietitian / Nutritionist (RDN), Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE), and an academic university level professor; with over 20 years of professional service to the dietetics and nutrition industry.  She also earned her doctorate degree in Educational Leadership in higher education and holds an advanced degree in public health with an emphasis on health policy and administration.  Erika has a deep knowledge of education, clinical dietetics, research, and current trends.  In March 2017, she was nominated and awarded national-level recognition status, jointly from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND) and the Nutrition and Dietetics Educators and Preceptors (NDEP), as an "Outstanding Educator - Western Region" from nominees in eight states. 

 Erika, coordinates the post-baccalaureate certificate of advanced study – dietetic internship program and full teaching load including responsibility for teaching nutrition and health, elementary nutrition, nutrition through the lifecycle, sports nutrition and advanced counseling courses, in addition to managing 18 affiliate organizations/preceptors.  Her areas of expertise and/or research include but not limited to: diabetes; human lactation; continuous subcutaneous insulin infusion (CSII) and continuous glucose monitoring (cgm) and social justice and health inequities.

 She has also worked as an outpatient dietitian at a rural health center and urban American Indian clinic, a director of child nutrition for school foodservice, a medical nutrition therapy account manger for a large pharmaceutical company, and a health promotion specialist for a regional hospital system.  In addition, she is a product trainer for Medtronic Diabetes and also trains people to use an insulin pump and continuous glucose monitors.