Registered Dietician
Nutrition and Diabetes Education Department

Mary Rotolo, RD, CDE, attended California State University, Long Beach, and graduated in 1985 with a Bachelors of Science in Foods and Nutrition.

She pursued postgraduate work in Clinical Nutrition and in 1989 did a dietetic internship at Los Angeles County-University of Southern California Medical Center, which enabled her to become a Registered Dietitian. Rotolo has been a Certified Diabetic Educator for the past 14 years and a Saint John's Health Center employee since 1999.

She is a member of the American Association of Diabetes Educators and American Diabetes Association, and is bilingual, which allows her to converse with a diverse patient population.

Rotolo believes in empowering people by teaching them new behaviors so they can control their blood sugar or see a desirable change in weight, blood pressure and/or lab values.

Working at Saint John's has given her the chance to make a difference in people's lives and also to learn new ways to reach people with different barriers or styles of learning.