Summer Cooper Email & Phone Number

As a dietitian, I see clients in an outpatient setting assessing their nutritional needs, developing goals, and working through barriers to nutritional adequacy for adolescents and adults with eating disorders, disordered eating, chronic medical conditions and body image concerns. Walking alongside different populations as they work through challenging mental and physical health concerns is a passion of mine as I use motivational interviewing and compassion to encourage behavior change for improved overall well-being. I also collaborate with the entire care team, both internal and external, to facilitate recovery and work with families when appropriate. Treatment often includes meal exposures, grocery store tours, and FBT styled care plans as needed. It is a privilege to work with this community of people and walk with them through healing their eating disorder, among other chronic conditions.

Lafayette, Indiana Area

In this role, my day consisted of meeting with clients weekly to assess nutritional needs and develop meal plans for adolescents and adults with eating disorders, disordered eating, chronic medical conditions and body image concerns. Using medical nutrition therapy and motivational interviewing I was able to aid in affecting change in overall well-being. I also collaborated with the entire care team, both internal and external, to facilitate recovery and work with families when appropriate. My experience also includes facilitating eating disorder group therapy and meal exposures, enabling me to use these skills to develop and implement the company's nutrition track of the Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program.

Lafayette, Indiana Metropolitan Area

In this role I worked one-on-one with on-site employees improving lifestyle behaviors that contribute to poor health. Each day I would coach employees regarding nutrition knowledge, exercise, smoking cessation and stress while also organizing and implementing Wellness Coaches campaigns and presentations to groups.

Louisville, Kentucky

I worked as a contracted dietitian in the Western Kentucky area. As an RDN, I provided medical nutrition therapy to specialized populations; specifically serving the developmentally disabled in therapeutic diets, including but not limited to obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular health.

Bowling Green Area, Ky

One of two Registered Dietitian Nutritionists at Western Kentucky University. I worked with students, faculty/staff, athletes, and the Bowling Green community. My job included counseling students on diabetes control, food allergies, other medical nutrition therapy concerns, eating disorder management,and intuitive eating. I frequently presented on variety of nutrition topics to campus organizations and implemented our Wholesome WKU program, a nutrition fuel station for students. At this position, I founded and led the Food Education and Allergy Support Team, an organization for students with food allergies and MNT concerns. Sports nutrition was another facet of this position where I provided nutrition education to Division 1 athletes that included plate coaching, performance improvement, game daynutrition, and oversaw maintenance of on-site fuel stations.

I completed my dietetic internship at Western Kentucky University where I worked in the Bowling Green, Glasgow, and Scottsville area. I rotated through the community setting where I worked with the student body at WKU, specifically with athletics and health/nutrition promotion. I was privileged to intern at the Barren River County Health Department where I was exposed to the general public's nutrition needs. At the health department I was also exposed to WIC and the wonderful population that it serves. I received clinical experience at the Medical Center in Bowling Green and Scottsville. I was exposed to a multitude of cases where I was able to nutritionally assess, diagnose, intervene and monitor/evaluate patients and residents. My dietetic internship ended with the food service rotation where I worked in the Barren County school system's nutrition services department, and at the Medical Center in Scottsville's hospital kitchen.

I served as a member of the All Access Internship team as a Social Media Intern. My job responsibilities included generating social media posts, reaching out to past clients, brainstorming new projects, and blogging as needed. More specifically, I created/reposted social media posts that were relevant to the social activity that day. I also created/organized social projects with AAI's founder and director of marketing.

Tri-Star Greenview Regional Hospital is a 211-bed acute care, medical-surgical facility. As a nutrition assistant I was both an assistant to the dietitian and the diet clerk. As the assistant to the clinical dietitian I prepared patient assessment reports, reviewed food-drug interactions, performed Coumadin educations, and provided spoken menus to long-term care patients. I also medically charted vitals, collected and calculated calorie counts, and took patient meal preferences. As the kitchen diet clerk, I worked with Meditech, and Computrition, took patient meal orders, corrected tray tickets based on patient therapeutic diets, worked the tray-line, entered tube feeding strengths and formulas into Computrition, prepared and delivered patient nourishments, and worked in the dishroom. I also assisted with cold food preparation and completed time/temperature documentation.

Bowling Green, Ky

As an office aide, I worked for the Department of Kinesiology & Recreational Sports. I assisted university faculty in filing paperwork, grading papers, organizing teaching material, answering phone calls and directing the calls as needed. I also ran errands around campus and made copies of various materials.

Hilton Head Island, Sc

As a server, I took food orders of customers, served food to tables, and was responsible for knowing the menu and sanitation policies. I provided exceptional hospitality and worked directly with cooks and managers to ensure customer satisfaction. I also stocked food, cleaned the facilities, and assisted with food preparation.

Dietetic Internship, Dietetics And Clinical Nutrition Services

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Hospitality Management & Dietetics- Emphasis In Dietetics