JULIE H. BURNS
Julie H. Burns, MS, RD, CCN is founder of SportFuel, Inc. and Eat Like the Pros® – an integrative sports nutrition and wellness consulting firm and organic meal delivery service, both located in Western Springs, IL. Current and past clients include the Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, Chicago White Sox baseball team, Chicago Bears football team, Chicago Bulls basketball team, Northwestern University's varsity teams, Next Level Performance and individual pro and elite athletes.
Julie regularly provides nutrition guidance to coaches, athletic trainers, amateur athletes, and health care professionals. As a mother of teenage active triplets, she is often asked to address mother’s groups, parent associations, and other lay audiences. Julie also consults with food and public relations companies.
Julie previously served as Director of Research at the Chicago Center for Clinical Research, a former affiliate of Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center, where she specialized in cardiovascular experimental nutritionals and pharmaceuticals. She has an adjunct faculty appointment at Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center in the Department of Nutrition.
Julie is a regular presence on Chicago-area network and cable television and is frequently quoted in major newspapers and magazines. She co-edited the second edition of Cardiovascular Disease: Nutrition for Prevention and Treatment, a manual for health professionals, by the American Dietetic Association (ADA). She has published articles in major medical journals, and authored a brochure for the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) based on their Position Stand on Exercise and Fluid Replacement. Julie’s sports nutrition chapter contributions include a Sports Beverage chapter for Macroelements, Water, and Electrolytes and Basketball: Power Jam Nutrition, in Sports Nutrition: A Guide for the Professional Working with Active People-3rd edition.
Julie earned her bachelor degree in Dietetics from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana (1983) and completed her internship and Masters of Science in Clinical Dietetics from the Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions (1987). Julie is a registered and licensed dietitian (R.D, L.D.) in the state of Illinois and is a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist (CCN) and member of IACCN.
Julie is a member of Dietitians in Functional Medicine and Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionists (SCAN), practice groups of the American Dietetic Association. She is also a member of the Chicago, Illinois and West Suburban Dietetic Associations. She had an Executive Board appointment and was Cardiovascular Editor for the Pulse newsletter, a SCAN quarterly publication. Julie served on the Gatorade Sport Science Institute’s Sports Nutrition Advisory Board from 1995-2003.
Julie was rated “one of the top ten experts to help revamp your diet” by Harper's BAZAAR magazine. She received the American Dietetic Association Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionists (SCAN) 2002 “Achievement Award” and has also been awarded “Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year" awards by the Chicago and Illinois Dietetic Associations.