She obtained her degree in Science and Dietetics and completed her Nutrition Internship at Virginia Common Wealth University Medical College. Piera has obtained her certification in Integrated Energy Therapy and is certified in adult weight management. She is currently employed at the University of Rochester teaching morbidly obese patients how to make lifestyle changes prior to weight loss surgery. Piera runs a group called Life after Weight Loss and gives monthly nutrition seminars and cooking classes on the latest prevailing health and nutrition topics. She also has a private Nutrition Consultant practice. Piera has been a long time practitioner of martial arts, yoga and meditation. Her passion in the past five years has been to help people overcome the physiological effects of food addiction and the promotion of healthy clean living through mind body and spirit.