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Northbrook, Illinois, United States

Greater Chicago Area

- Provide nutrition services including: individual nutrition counseling, nutrition education presentations, news segments, menu revamping, wellness initiatives, cooking classes, and mobile app development. - Inform the public about timely nutrition topics via media outlets.- Follow nutrition care process and utilize motivational interviewing during.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Teach "Nutrition for the Expecting Family", "Nutrition for Breastfeeding Moms", "Starting Solids", and "Toddler Nutrition" to families attending the center. - Research up-to-date nutrition recommendations in order to write class curricula and design power point presentations.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Provided Medical Nutrition Therapy to client's with HIV/AIDS, cancer, and other life challenging illnesses.

Greater Chicago Area

- Managed the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) nutrition program at the Friend Family Health Center and supervised professional and clerical nutrition staff in all phases of service delivery. Provided nutrition services to clients, interviewed clients to assess nutritional needs and developed nutrition care plans.- Directed the program's day-to-day.

Ann Arbor, MI

- Collaborated with evaluation team on two grant-funded research projects: Empowering Patients on Choices for Renal Replacement Therapy (EPOCH-RRT) and W.K. Kellogg Foundation - Food and Fitness Initiative.- Managed, analyzed, interpreted, and reported quantitative and qualitative data pertaining to policy and systems changes, program outcomes, lessons.

Hines, IL

- Managed plan for honoring 70 health observances during FY14 by organizing and creating health education materials including handouts, brochures, flyers, social media posts, and digital signage and distributing materials and instructions to 10 outpatient clinics. - Assisted MOVE! Program Coordinator with the re-design and proposal for a 6-month weight.

Chicago, IL

- Conducted site visits to review and assess staff performance, appearance of WIC facilities, customer service, and delivery of nutrition services to WIC participants.- Developed and executed comprehensive process evaluation using various data sources: staff interviews, client surveys, clinic observations, and quality assurance and utilization data..

Vital Bridges Center On Chronic Care Of Heartland Health Outreach

- Provided comprehensive medical nutrition therapy including nutrition assessment, diagnosis, intervention, evaluation and monitoring for numerous health conditions. - Collaborated with public health professionals to meet organization’s mission of providing healthy food, nutrition and social services to low-income individuals with HIV/AIDS. - Proposed and.

Hines, IL

- Practiced the Nutrition Care Process in various patient settings on topics including: diabetes, hyperlipidemia, hypertension, renal insufficiency, weight management, Celiac disease, pancreatitis, cirrhosis, and HIV/AIDS.- Independently proposed and completed IRB-approved research project at the Loyola University Medical Center. Retrospectively analyzed.

Madison, WI

- Utilized the CompNutrition software to censor patients' meal requests based on diet orders.- Educated and guided patients in making nutritious meal choices to meet restrictions and preferences.- Monitored fluid and carbohydrate restrictions in renal and diabetic patients.- Communicated with clinical dietitians to make adjustments to patient diet orders.

Madison, WI

- Completed 4 month ACE certified Group Fitness Instructor training course. - Created and instructed 60 minute strength, cardio, core, and bosu classes.

Master Of Public Health (Mph), Health Behavior And Health Education, 4.0

Activities and Societies: UM Wellness Blog “Pulse” Contributor, Health Behavior and Health Education Student Association, Health.

B.S., Dietetics, 3.92

Activities and Societies: Students for the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network (Founder and President), Pi Beta Phi (Vice-President of.