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 courses on a high school and university level and providing one-on-one 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.

In more recent year Iris has dedicated herself to the study, research and exploration 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. During the development of Fill Centers USA, she headed the effort to create 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 understanding of 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.”