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Kaylie Nguyen, MS, PNP, has been a Nurse Practitioner at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford in the Pediatric Gastroenterology Division since 2004. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of CA San Diego and her Master's in Nursing at the University of CA San Francisco. She is a core member of the team that is currently developing the Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center at Stanford. She began offering the Specific Carbohydrate Diet (SCD) as a therapeutic option for her patients with IBD in 2005, well before it was popular or accepted by the medical community. As the clinical leader of the IBD Nutrition Program, she is driving innovative change to better serve patient families as nutritional therapy options for IBD expand. She was a key contributor to the nationwide PRODUCE study and continues to develop and participate in clinical research, as well as resident and fellow education on diet and IBD at Stanford Children's.