Tami received her undergraduate degree in Dietetics and Food Administration from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo and her Master’s of Public Health from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As a clinical dietitian at UCLA Medical Center, Tami provided individual counseling and patient classes for the Departments of Internal and Family Medicine, specializing in eating and weight disorders, sports nutrition and diabetes education. She was the primary dietitian for the Intensive Outpatient Eating Disorders Program at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute from 1988-1992. Tami was a contributing editor of Eating Disorders Review and a Diabetes Educator from 1988 – 2009.