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Erica Wald
Erica Wald is a Registered Dietitian who strives to make nutrition jargon more understandable and usable. She enjoys
teaching nutrition classes as well as one-on- one client meetings. One-on-one client time is a chance to learn and grow
together. Teaching nutrition classes provides her with a great challenge, effectively reaching a diverse population.
Outside of work, Erica enjoys hiking, camping, relaxing at the beach, and most of all spend time with her family.
Holly Scherer
Since 1997, Holly Scherer has focused her professional efforts on teaching people how to easily eat healthy and love it!
Working at MFit, at the University of Michigan Health System, she enjoys teaching nutrition classes, developing nutrition
education materials and partnering with others to create healthier communities. Away from work, she enjoys cooking,
traveling and spending time with her husband and twin girls.
Catherine (Cathy) M. Fitzgerald
Cathy is a Registered Dietitian who enjoys making it easy for everyone to make healthier food choices. Project Healthy
Schools, a community- University of MI Health System collaborative for Ann Arbor sixth graders is designed to increase
physic al activity and healthier food choices keeps Cathy busy. Have you seen the MFit logos that identify healthier food
choices? Cathy works with Good Choices and the Healthy Dining Program. Away from work, Cathy enjoys reading, biking and
cross country skiing and eating healthfully, of course!
Elizabeth (Lizzie) Rosalie Burt, IACP
A seven-time Hawaii Ironman Triathlon participant, and three-time Boston marathoner, Lizzie is an avid competitor.
She realized an athletic dream when she won her age division in Hawaii in 1987. Lizzie made a career switch from
registered nurse to the culinary arts in 1978. She has had the privilege of learning her trade from such culinary
notables as Jacques Pepin, Simone Beck, Paula Wolfert, Bernard Clayton, and Marcella Hazan. Today, as part of the
University of Michigan Health Promotion’s MFit Culinary Team, she enjoys the challenge of convincing others that
good food and good health are synonymous. In 1996, Lizzie was featured in Graham Kerr's cookbook, “Graham Kerr's
Kitchen.” Later, she appeared as a guest on “Graham Kerr's Gathering Places” television culinary
show, which was aired internationally in September 1999. From February 1998 through January 1999, Lizzie was part of the
University of Michigan Healthy Lifestyle Team who appeared regularly on Fox 2 TV demonstrating healthy cooking techniques
as part of the news anchor's weight loss challenge. She is co-author of the High Fit - Low Fat and High Fit - Low Fat
Vegetarian cookbooks, published in 1989 and 1996 respectively. Lizzie still enjoys competing in triathlons and biathlons,
and is regularly named age division champion in the Michigan Grand Prix series of triathlons. Lizzie enjoys helping
others in the community to prepare delicious and nutritious meals for their families and friends. With her colleague,
Kathy Goldberg, Lizzie is featured in two instructional videos on the preparation of delicious healthy food, which are
shown regularly on the UMHS patient TV network. Lizzie lives in Ann Arbor with her husband, Brian. She enjoys frequent
visits to Colorado to visit her two sons, their wives and her precious grandchildren.
Katherine Briggs Goldberg, M.S., R.D.
Kathy has an interesting background in both food service and nutrition. She began her culinary career at Detroit’s
London Chop House with Jimmy Schmidt. Kathy worked with Peter Goatley-Detroit’s leading gourmet caterer of
Peter’s Palate Pleaser for over a decade. Kathy is a Registered Dietitian and has a Master of Science degree in
clinical nutrition from the University of Michigan. Kathy has been an instructor at Schoolcraft College’s Culinary
Arts Program teaching the chefs of tomorrow about nutritious, delicious food preparation. She is an active member of
the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and the Food and Culinary Professionals practice group of the
American Dietetic Association. Kathy has attended the Great Chefs Cooking School at the Robert Mondavi Winery with
Chef Joel Robuchon, the Ecole Ritz Escoffier in Paris, the Institut Paul Bocuse in Lyon, and the Great Chocolate School of
Valrhona Chocolate in Tain in France. Kathy has worked in the UMHS Preventive Cardiology Program as a clinical nutrition
counselor, providing medical nutrition therapy to patients with heart disease, diabetes and weight management. Kathy is
co-author of the High Fit-Low Fat Vegetarian cookbook. With her colleague, Lizzie Burt, Kathy is featured in two
instructional videos on the preparation of delicious healthy food, which are shown regularly on the UMHS patient TV
network. She is happily married, the mother of two sons and enjoys spending her free time playing tennis, golf, hiking,
and downhill skiing.
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