Jeannine received her Bachelor’s of Arts in Biology, with Specialization in Nutrition and a minor in Psychology, from Rutgers in 1990. She later returned to Rutgers to complete her Bachelor’s of Science in Dietetics in 1993 and completed her Dietetic Internship through The College of Saint Elizabeth and Jersey Shore Regional Trauma Center in 1994. Jeannine began her dietetics career in acute care at Clara Maas Medical Center, here she focused on Medical and Surgical Intensive Care as well as Oncology. She specialized in enteral and parenteral nutrition support and developed a “Nutrition and HIV” chapter for The Wood Company’s diet manual as well as the “Nutrition and Diet Therapy” Chapter of the Renal Dialysis Patient Handbook at Clara Maas Medical Center.