Dr. Ziegler has over 30 years of clinical practice in the areas of neonatal, pediatric and adolescent nutrition. She has worked primarily in the areas pediatric pulmonary, gastrointestinal disease and children with special needs as well as pediatric weight management. She served as a member of the Pediatric Weight Management Expert Workgroup of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Evidence Analysis Library.   She provides clinical support in the Rutgers School of Dental Medicine to the specialty clinics of the Orofacial Pain Clinic, Oral Medicine Clinic and the Special Needs Clinic as well as clinical support in the undergraduate dental clinics.  In addition to clinical experiences she is the Program Director for the Doctorate of Clinical Nutrition Program in the School of Health Professions at Rutgers.