Donna Hayek, RD
Registered Dietitian · Princeton Longevity Center
Nutrition counseling tied to cardiac CT, DEXA, RMR, food diaries, and weight-management data
About
Donna Hayek, RD brings more than 20 years of dietitian experience to PLC's Princeton office. She earned a BS in Food and Nutrition and a Sports Nutrition and Wellness certificate from The College of St. Elizabeth, and she is also an ACSM Certified Exercise Physiologist. Her background spans hospitals, long-term care, gyms, and clinics. At PLC, her nutrition consults are unusually diagnostic-driven: food diary analysis, cardiac CT calcium-score counseling, DEXA body-composition and bone-density review, RMR interpretation, and medical-weight-loss support.
What to Know
Signature approach
Hayek turns test results into food and exercise changes a patient can actually use. A three-day food diary becomes macro and micronutrient analysis; cardiac calcium scoring informs heart-health nutrition; DEXA results shape visceral-fat, bone-density, and resistance-training priorities; RMR helps calibrate weight-loss targets. Her ACSM exercise credential lets nutrition and movement advice meet in the same conversation.
What sets them apart
- RD plus exercise physiology. The dual credential lets her connect food choices with resistance training, metabolism, and bone-health planning.
- Diagnostic-paired workflow. Her PLC articles show nutrition consults tied directly to cardiac CT, DEXA, RMR, food diaries, and menopause care.
- Broad patient history. Pediatric, obstetric, adult, and elderly settings give her range before the adult executive-health context at PLC.
Before You Book
- Care focus. Cardiovascular-risk nutrition, DEXA-based body composition, bone health, RMR-informed weight management, and menopause nutrition.
- Program context. Medical weight loss may include food tracking and four-week Zoom check-ins.
- Related care. If dedicated diabetes education is the main need, compare with Lori E. Skurbe, RDN, MPH, CDCES.
Expertise
Focus areas
Patient types
Credentials
Education
B.S., Food & Nutrition
The College of St. Elizabeth
Certificate, Sports Nutrition & Wellness
The College of St. Elizabeth
Additional certifications
Registered Dietitian (RD)
Commission on Dietetic Registration
National credentialing exam for dietitians - the foundational credential to provide medical nutrition therapy.
Certified Exercise Physiologist (ACSM-EP)
American College of Sports Medicine
ACSM-issued certification for prescribing exercise to apparently healthy individuals and those with controlled medical conditions - uncommon dual credential alongside the RD.
Years in practice
20
Affiliations
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