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Denver, Colorado, United States

Providing patient care with science-based therapeutic tools, using an evolving digital app as the primary source of communication (includes texting, phone calls, and video chats). Providing ongoing coaching and education with Virta patients that primarily focuses on a personalized nutrition & care plan (nutritional ketosis via personalized carbohydrate intake with lifestyle changes that focus on sustainability). Collaborating with the Virta medical staff in a detailed, timely, and effective manner to address patient status changes (communicate medication changes and other physician recommendations to patients). Monitoring and providing feedback on daily patient metrics and vitals including: weight, blood ketones, blood glucose, blood pressure, side effects, energy, cravings, hunger, and mood.

Successfully completed the Diabetes Prevention Program training from the CDC to effectively coach users around Diabetes prevention. Coaching focused on helping participants with three primary program outcomes: attaining 150 minutes of physical activity per week, achieving weight loss of 4-5%, and/or reducing HbA1C by at least 0.2%.Other responsibilities included project coordination for adverse events experienced by patients enrolled in a dual partnership between Noom and a pharmaceutical company. This involved compiling and submitting all reports of adverse events as well as internal/external communication for this project. Additional project involvement centered around coordination of all events for employee spirit week as well as coordination, planning, and budgeting for employee wellness events month to month.

Remote

Business to Business and Life Sciences Coaching. Providing service to another business who then sources users from a specific population. Partnerships are with employers and life sciences. Life science partnerships are condition-specific, related to medication adherence and/or medical devices.Other responsibilities included project coordination for adverse events experienced by patients enrolled in a dual partnership between Noom and a pharmaceutical company. This involved compiling and submitting all reports of adverse events as well as internal/external communication for this project.

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States

Dietetic internship with foodservice, clinical, & community rotations. Clinical and long term care nutrition settings: contributed to the design and implementation of a plan of patient nutrition care, based on identification and assessment of a patient's nutritional needs, correlated with other health plans. Food service settings: involved in management and delivery of quality food items to patients and guests. Research: conducted extensive literature review with guidance and gained exposure to the dietitian's role in a clinical research setting.

Greenville, North Carolina, United States

Served as front desk staff lead handling all administrative tasks for the Pirate Academic Success Center (PASC) at East Carolina University. Responsibilities included coordinating appointment times, navigating technological issues, handling internal/external communications, onboarding new employees, and event coordination for PASC activities.

Greenville, Nc

Served as a peer to peer tutor for two courses (nutrition science and nutrition biochemistry) at the Pirate Academic Success Tutoring Center at East Carolina University.

Fayetteville, North Carolina, United States

Foodservice management internship that involved responsibility for ensuring data integrity, best practices, and ongoing compliance with internal and external information. This position worked closely with all functions of the account to strengthen data inputs and bring difficulty and discipline to the sales function in order to optimize company growth. This required continually adapting the work environment to ensure business processes were always improving and becoming more efficient.

Master Of Science, Nutrition Sciences

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Nutrition And Dietetics