Phyllis B Acosta

Dr. Acosta has more than fifty years of experience in the field of inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs). In addition to providing direct nutrition management to more than 200 patients with an IMD, she was nutrition consultant to the sixteen year national phenylketonuria (PKU) collaborative study on outcomes of treated patients with PKU and advisor to the NICHD committee on the fourteen year international study on reproductive outcomes of treated women with PKU. While employed as Director of...See more

Dr. Acosta has more than fifty years of experience in the field of inherited metabolic disorders (IMDs). In addition to providing direct nutrition management to more than 200 patients with an IMD, she was nutrition consultant to the sixteen year national phenylketonuria (PKU) collaborative study on outcomes of treated patients with PKU and advisor to the NICHD committee on the fourteen year international study on reproductive outcomes of treated women with PKU. While employed as Director of Inherited Metabolic Diseases at Ross Products Division, Abbott Laboratories she designed eighteen products for IMDs and designed and conducted the research to test their efficacy. Dr. Acosta is nationally and internationally known for her work in the field of nutrition management of patients with an IMD and has published more than than 150 journal articles, DHEW booklets and book chapters. She has been an invited speaker at seminars and conferences (>150 in the US)(> 50 internationally). She was Professor at six Universities and is mother of three children and grandmother of four children. See less