Awards, Qualifications and Experience

Awards

  • British Dietetic Association Dame Barbara Clayton Award for Innovation, Winner 2013
  • East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust Staff Award.  Awarded for the development and initiation of IBS services providing group IBS teaching to develop the self-managing patient. January 201

Qualifications

  • Post Graduate Diploma (Dietetics), Kings College, London.  Completed March 2009 with merit
  • Masters Degree (Nutrition), Kings College, London.  Completed August 2007
  • Bachelor’s Degree (Biology), University of York.  Completed May 2003 with first class honours.

Further Study

  • My Modulife Expert Training Course Modules 1+2, provided by Nestle sciences (Underway)
  • Sleep Deprivation: Habits, Solutions and Strategies, provided by University of Michigan, via FutureLearn (14.04.2020)
  • Food as Medicine: Fertility and Pregnancy, provided by Monash University, via FutureLearn (02.01.2020)
  • Integrating Care: Depression, Anxiety and Physical Illness, provided by Kings College London, via FutureLearn (03.11.2019)
  • Developing Clinical Empathy: Making a difference in Patient Care, provided by St George’s, University of London, via FutureLearn (15.10.2019)
  • Sustainable Diets: Webinar, FrieslandCampina Institute (10.10.2019)
  • Role of Dairy in a Healthy Diet, FrieslandCampina Institute (25.09.2019)
  • The Evidence Network: supporting biologic choice in Crohn’s Disease today: Workshop 2, provided by Jansen, Cooden Beach (23.04.2019)
  • Introduction to Mental Health, Learning Disability and Eating Disorders, NCORE, Derby (16.01.2017)
  • Inflammatory Bowel Disease: evidence-based dietary management, Kings College, London (05.10.2016)
  • IBS, Coeliac Disease and the low FODMAP diet, Marianne Williams RD, Hastings (20.04.2016)
  • Frontiers in Intestinal and Colorectal Disease, St Marks Hospital, London (24.11.2015 – 25.11.2015) place kindly provided by Nestle HealthSciences
  • Digestive Disorders Federation Annual Meeting, Excel, London (23.06.2015 – 24.06.2015) place kindly provided by BBraun
  • The low FODMAP diet extended practice course update, Kings College, London (11.06.2015)
  • Gastroenterology Specialist Group of the BDA Study Day: Dietary Management of Pancreatic Conditions, St Thomas’s Hospital, London (22.05.2015)
  • GastroInternational, Rome (18.04.2015 – 19.04.2015) place kindly provided by Almirall
  • The low FODMAP diet: Group teaching skills, Kings College, London (07.11.2014)
  • Sustaining Students and Dietetic Teams Whilst Supporting Learning, University of Surrey (04.09.2014)
  • Multiprofessional co-mentoring, HEKSS Programme, Eastbourne (January – April 2014)
  • Gastroenterology Specialist Group of the BDA Study Day: Hot Topics in Gastroenterology, London (13.11.2013)
  • Improving Dementia Care in General Hospitals, Dementia CCQI, Royal College of Psychiatrists, London (12.07.2013)
  • The low FODMAP diet update course, Kings College, London (06.06.2013)
  • Improving Outcomes in Dietetic Services, SBK events, London (22.05.2012)
  • The low FODMAP diet extended practice course, King College, London (25.05.2011)
  • Gastroenterology Specialist Group of the BDA Study Day: Nutrition in Liver Disease, Kings College, London (11.02.2011)
  • Dietetic Regional Study Day in IBS and Coeliac Disease, South East Coast Dietetics Managers Group, Tonbridge (22.10.2010)
  • Food Allergy and the Gut Study Day, UCL Institute of Child Health, London (14.05.2010)
  • Infant and Childhood Obesity; Nature or Nurture, SMA Professional Know-How (04.05.2010)

Experience

  • In house dietitian at GastroDoctor, April 2022 – Current
  • Lead Advanced Specialist Gastroenterology Dietitian,  December 2014 – Current, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Specialist Gastroenterology Dietitian,  July 2010 – December 2014, East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust
  • Locum Intensive Care Dietitian, June 2010 – July 2010, Medway NHS Foundation Trust
  • Dietitian, March 2009 – April 2010, Eastern and Coastal Kent Community Services