Jo Ann Hattner

Jo Ann Tatum Hattner, MPH RD, is on the front lines of nutrition and health and explores beyond traditional boundaries to bring solidly based but innovative solutions to the people she counsels in her nutrition practice in San Francisco.

She received an undergraduate Bachelor of Science Degree from the University of Idaho, a graduate degree from the University of California at Berkeley in Public Health, Registered Dietitian credentials and more than 30 years' experience practicing nutrition in the dynamic environment of the San Francisco Bay Area. She is a regular guest speaker at national professional meetings of dietitians, physicians, and other professionals.

Her interest in the new, somewhat mysterious, but scientifically solid field of probiotics originated while practicing nutrition with some of the top gastroenterologists and nutritionists in the world at Stanford Medical Center in Palo Alto, California. Hattner believes the public is ready to learn about probiotics and prebiotics now that more and more products are entering the American market and savvy consumers are desperate to know what works and what doesn't. Put simply, people want to know what is scientifically valid, safe and effective to put in their bodies. The answers are emerging. Hattner has them, and she is anxious to share them in a simple, useful format.