DARA GODFREY, MS, RD

Dara Godfrey is a registered dietitian who works in private practice in Manhattan. As an expert in nutrition, she customizes eating plans to help empower her patients to make positive food choices. Dara’s lifestyle-driven approach has encouraged individuals to understand what is realistic and has provided them with a flexible set of tools to achieve sustainable goals of health and happiness. Dara is also the dietitian at Reproductive Medicine Associates (RMA) of New York, a fertility clinic, where she supports patients’ nutritional goals at every stage of infertility treatment and pregnancy, including pre-treatment health and weight loss, prenatal nutrition and pregnancy nutrition during each trimester.

Dara, a Toronto, Canada native, graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Food & Nutrition at The University of Western Ontario and obtained her RD and Masters in Nutrition at New York University. Dara spent several years at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan where she led a Weight Management Support Group and was involved in counseling patients in such specialties as prenatal, bariatric and gastrointestinal nutrition. Dara is not only a blog contributor for Body By Simone and RMA of New York, but has also been featured in videos on such sites as Fertility Authority and CafeMom. She has also contributed to articles in The Daily News, Self magazine, Cospmopolitan magazine, HERS magazine and blogs such as Fitness NYC and The Sweat Life. 

When not working, she can be seen working out at Modelfit and SLT, as well as trying the newest restaurants around New York. She lives in Manhattan with her husband, Jay, and two daughters, Allegra & Bardot.