With a focus in outpatient education and wellness, Lori Wylly brings to DuPage Medical Group both a personal and professional interest in nutrition and wellness. Lori received her undergraduate degree in Nutrition-Dietetics from the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point in 1982. She went on to get her Masters in Public Health Nutrition from the University of California – Los Angeles in 1985.
Lori started her career in weight loss providing nutrition education to morbidly obese, hypertensive patients in an outpatient weight management program at UCLA. She worked in cardiovascular disease with Dr. Robert Kowalski, author of the book The 8-week Cholesterol Cure; corporate health enhancement for Dow Chemical and Rockwell International; and fitness as a previous consultant to Woman's Track Health & Fitness in California. The majority of her recent experience has been in the primary care setting doing individual and group counseling for adults in the areas of diabetes, cardiovascular health, and weight management. She received her specialty in diabetes education (CDE) in the year 2000, and recertified in 2005. She has been working with Dupage Medical Group as a dietitian in the Diabetes Education Program since 2005.