Dr. Dana Lis PhD, RD, IOC Dip Sport Nutr

Performance Nutrition Consultant: Golden State Warriors

Owner & Co-founder: Summit Sports Nutrition & Performance Nutrition Professionals Research Affiliate: University California Davis

Expert Advisor: Elo Health

Dr. Dana Lis is internationally recognized for her leadership in the field of Performance Nutrition. One of the first and few Registered Dietitians globally to have completed the renowned IOC Diploma in Sport Nutrition alongside a PhD, she seamlessly aligns the three key elements shaping the field of Performance Nutrition: Practise, Research and Industry. Her expertise in these pillars has been at the forefront of advancement in the field for over seventeen years. In this time, she almost exclusively supported Olympic and Professional sport across multiple continents and a diverse sport portfolio, including summer/winter Olympic sports, World Tour Cycling to the NBA. Dana’s tireless drive for professional excellence has developed an unmatched knowledge to practice skillset that truly supports athletes to reach their full potential.

Through her PhD and Post-Doctoral studies, Dana maintained one foot in the field and the other in the lab, providing a unique vantage point to design impactful research and evolving professional practice. Her post-doctoral research investigating nutrition strategies to reducing injury risk and improving return to performance in the department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behaviour (University California Davis, Baar Lab) has been pivotal to her role for six seasons as the Golden State Warriors Performance Nutritionist. Her PhD work investigating the effects of gluten-free diets and FODMAPs on exercise-induced gastrointestinal syndrome establishing proved to seminal work that has shaped novel dietary strategies for the management of exercise-induced gastrointestinal syndrome. A formative leader with a legacy of challenging the status quo Dana has her focus now set on closing a long-standing gap in performance nutrition training for the real world of sport through her co-founded initiative Performance Nutrition Professionals.