Xenia Averkiou, M.S., R.D.N., C.D.C.E.S., C.D, is a certified diabetes care and education specialist and registered dietitian nutritionist at the UW Diabetes Institute at South Lake Union. Xenia is also working as a Research Dietitian with UW Diabetes Institute Research.

Averkiou is passionate for diabetes education and lives with type 1 diabetes herself. She believes that diabetes education must be individualized based on the patient's personal needs, beliefs, and cultural background and that patients must be empowered to take control of their diabetes. She believes that patients are at different stages of readiness for change, whether is health management or meal planning and she is there to support them at each stage.

Averkiou received her nutritional sciences education at the University of Washington. Her clinical interests include the areas of diabetes technology and celiac disease.