Iris has worked in the field of nutrition and physical fitness for almost 40 years. She is an Arizona State Board Certified Nutritionist, Arizona State Certified Weight Training Instructor, and Nationally Certified Personal Trainer.

For the past 17 years Iris has traveled the globe leading nutrition and fitness seminars, teaching nutrition and fitness courses both on a high school and university level and providing one-on-one nutrition and fitness counseling. She has also developed diets for major nutrition companies which were marketed both nationally and internationally. In addition, Iris owned and operated a Goals Gym and Fitness Center for eight years.

In all aspects of her training, education, and studies, Iris has specialized and excelled in the weight loss field. A large part of Iris’s life has been dedicated to providing one-on-one nutrition and fitness counseling with 99% of her clientele being overweight or obese.

In more recent year Iris has dedicated herself to the study, research and exploration of all aspects of the laparoscopic gastric banding procedure. As a result of her research, she has come to believe in the gastric band as a large part of the solution to the universal problem of obesity.

Iris co-founded Fill Centers USA and currently serves as the company’s CEO. She wrote the fitness, supplementation and nutrition portions of the Fill Centers USA Lifestyle Guide. Over the course of the past two years, she has headed the effort to develop a program tailored to fit the needs of the gastric band patient. Within the realm of this endeavor, Iris has had the opportunity to work with many banded patients and has come to have an even greater understand their individual challenges and needs.

Iris’s dream is to “work hand in hand with the participating surgeons to make this surgery revolutionary to the world by making aftercare more advanced and geographically adequate for each and every patient.”