During her time at Georiga State University, Abby worked as a research assistant where she helped to facilitate research on the validity and reliability of assessing resting metabolism in overweight and obese adolescence under to leadership of Sarah Henes PhD. The study, "Assessing Resting Metabolic Rate in Overweight and Obese Adolescents with a Portable Indirect Calorimeter: A Pilot Study for Validation and Reliability" was published in 2015 in Nutrition in Clinical Practice. Abby also completed her thesis research at the Strong4Life® clinic at Children's Health Care of Atlanta exploring nutritional stategies that correlated with succes for adolescence undergoing bariatric weight loss surgery. Her work, "The Relationship between Fruit and Vegetable Intake of Adolescents before Sleeve Gastrectomy and Success with Weight Loss Six Months Post-Surgery" was published in 2016 in Bariatric Surgical Practice and Patient Care.
After graduating, she spent two years working for Children's Health Care of Atlanta at a specialty clinic called the Aerodigestive clinic where she had the opportunity to work with children who were challenged by digestive and pulmonary disorders. After leaving CHOA, Abby went on to continue her work with children by working with the Center for Rare Neurological Diseases where she continues to contrinute to nutrition research on rare naurological conditions including Rett Syndrome, GLUT 1 deficiency, and Pitt Hopkins Syndrome.
Abby has a strong passion for kids. As a mom herself, she knows how difficult it can be sometimes to simply get your kids to eat healthy. She has conudcted seminars on "Raising Healthy Eaters" and "Eating Healthy on Budget". Additinoally, Abby has worked with numerous families to treat everyone from infants having trouble gaining weight, teenagars struggling with weight loss, food allergies, and more.