Andrea Chernus, MS, RD, CDE, is a registered dietitian and New York State certified dietitian and nutritionist. She holds a master's degree in nutrition and exercise physiology from Columbia University in New York. She maintains a full-time private practice on the upper west side in New York City, where she sees many athletes and performers.
Chernus consults with runners in the New York Road Runners Club and the New York City Marathon and is part of the New York Road Runners sports nutrition team. As part of Nutrition Conditioning, Inc., she also consults to the Juilliard School. Previously, she was the clinical nutritionist for Columbia University Health and Related Services. Chernus' articles have been published in Training & Conditioning, Stack, Dance Spirit, Bottom Line, and Pointe. She has been quoted in Outdoors, Shape, Self, YM, Women's Day, and Bicycling. She has also appeared on local and national TV.