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Melanie Betz (IL)
The Kidney Dietitian - Your Expert for Kidney Stone & CKD Nutrition Learn how to eat, live, and cook specific to your kidney health. Discover tasty kidney-friendly recipes you'll be dying to try! www.thekidneydietitian.org and on Instagram @the.kidney.dietitian.
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Edith Yang (CA)
Areas of Expertise: Chronic Kidney Disease, Hemodialysis, Diabetic Kidney Disease, Private Practice, General Health and Wellness, Weight Management.
Location + Willingness to Travel: San Gabriel Valley area, CA; Willing to travel
Professional Links: (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and/or website) Instagram.com/healthymissiondietitian, Healthymissiondietitian.com
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Rachael R Majorowicz (MN)
Bio: Rachael is a renal dietitian for Mayo Clinic Dialysis Services and an Assistant Professor of Nutrition for the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. She has nearly 20 years of experience providing patient care, creating educational materials, writing medical nutrition therapy guidelines, and presenting to dietitians, medical students, dietetic interns, nurses, and Nephrology providers. She has served on the executive committee of the Renal Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics for nearly 15 years and is currently leading the revision of the National Kidney Diet (formerly the National Renal Diet). She is also a contributor to online medical information, peer-reviewed journals, and book chapters, including the current revision of the bone and mineral disorders chapter of A Clinical Guide to Nutrition Care in Kidney Disease.
Areas of Expertise: updates in renal nutrition, dialysis, mineral and bone disorders, bariatric surgery in patients with CKD, National Kidney Diet Updates, and creating patient education materials.
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Melissa Mroz Planells (WA)
Melissa is an assistant professor and dietetic internship director. She has experience in nutrition therapy for CKD, dialysis, and post-transplant. Melissa completed her doctorate in clinical nutrition from Rutgers University and her master’s degree in clinical nutrition from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Melissa splits her time between Illinois and Washington state and is available for virtual or in-person presentations.
“In addition to being able to form a long-term patient-clinician relationship, what I most enjoy about working with persons living with chronic conditions is seeing the impact of making healthy behavior changes on their quality of life.”
Areas of Expertise: Nutrition-Focused Physical Exam, Nutrition Care Process, Protein Energy Wasting, Malnutrition, Quality of Life in Chronic Illness, Strategies to Overcome Burnout, Diabetic Kidney Disease, Diet Strategies to Reduce Chronic Inflammation, Technology in Healthcare
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Annamarie Rodriguez (WI)
Annamarie Rodriguez has almost 30 years of experience across a wide range of settings related to chronic diseases, specifically kidney disease, including CKD and ESKD. She owns Nutrition Directions, LLC, which provides dietitian/nutrition consulting services, and is dedicated to serving the community by advocating for health equity, advancing preventive measures, and reducing the incidence and progression of chronic disease. She has a Master’s in Health and Wellness Management, is a Certified Lifestyle Medicine Professional, and is a Licensed Food for Life Instructor. She believes that each person is on their own “food journey,” and that the direction of nutrition care is personalized, empowering patients to make sustainable life changes. She looks forward to partnering with her patients on their food journey to find the nutrition path that is just right for them. Annamarie focuses on a patient centered integrative nutrition care through a holistic wellness approach that embraces the six pillars of Lifestyle Medicine: nutrition, physical activity, restorative sleep, stress management, avoidance of high-risk substances, and positive social connections. She focuses on meaningful, personal, realistic changes that deliver significant results, optimizing quality of life and well-being. Annamarie is an avid volunteer with dietetic practice groups, her state affiliate, the Academy, and her community. Outside her profession, she loves gardening, cooking, nature, travel, and her dogs (since her houseful of kids is grown!). She thrives on staying physically and mentally busy, loves hiking in state and national parks, and kayaking. Areas of
Expertise: Plant-based nutrition & CKD, Nutrition Support & CKD, CKD-MBD, Adherence & Health Literacy, Health & Wellness Management, Weight Management, Lifestyle Medicine, Cooking Demos
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Amanda Hayes (TX)
Amanda is a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist in Austin, TX, with over a decade of experience serving thousands of people across all stages of chronic kidney disease. She graduated with both her Bachelor's and Master's of Science in Nutritional Sciences from Texas Tech University. As the owner of Relish Nutrition Therapy, she specializes in taking the most powerful, research-based medical nutrition therapy recommendations and practically implementing them into real life without sacrificing the joy of food. She regularly works with people who have felt like failures on diets and supports them in making lifelong changes in their health-promoting behaviors to benefit their kidney function. She believes a healthy diet starts with a healthy relationship with food and that everyone with kidney disease deserves access to quality care and support.
Areas of Expertise: Intuitive Eating, Disordered Eating, Renal Nutrition, CKD non-dialysis, CKD dialysis
Professional Links: (Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and/or website) www.relishnutritiontherapy.com www.linkedin.com/in/amanda-hays-ms-rd-ld-02247a32
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Rory Pace (CA)
Rory Pace has dedicated her career to Nephrology Nutrition, a field in which she is a leader, educator, and patient advocate. Rory earned a Bachelor’s degree in Dietetics from the University of California, Davis, and a Master’s in Public Health from UCLA. She has been a board-certified specialist in renal nutrition for 20 years. Rory has published and presented on numerous nephrology nutrition topics and is a co-author of the 2020 Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Performance for Nephrology Nutrition. An active volunteer leader, Rory currently serves as Past Chair of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Renal Dietitians Practice Group and as a member of the NKF Spring Clinical Meetings planning committee. Rory has served in several other leadership roles within the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and NKF/CRN. Rory received the Carol Hayes Torio Award for Excellence in Management and the Dolores Nyhus Memorial Award from the California Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. She was recognized as Outstanding Dietitian of the Year (California) by the Academy in 2020.
Areas of Expertise: dialysis, home dialysis, quality improvement, leadership, behavior change, CKD, future thinking
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Lauren Budd Levy (NJ)
Areas of Expertise: dialysis, pre-dialysis, kidney stones, private practice, plant-based eating, IgA Nephropathy, meal planning, recipe development
Website: happyhealthnutrition.net
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