Pamela Charney, PhD, RD is a registered dietitian with over 20 years experience. She has a great deal of experience in all care settings, ranging from 30 bed critical access hospitals to 500 bed academic medical centers. She received her baccalaureate degree from the University of West Florida, completed a dietetic internship at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, and is a US Army veteran. She has master's degrees in nutritional sciences and clinical informatics and patient centered technology from the University of Washington and a PhD in health sciences from Rutgers University. Dr. Charney has a long record of professional service and was a charter member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetic's Nutrition Care Process and Dietetics Terminology Committees. She is also a sought-after speaker at local, national, and international levels and has written extensively on the nutrition care process, critical thinking in dietetics practice, nutrition assessment, and evaluation of quality of nutrition care.