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Dawn Clifford, Phd, RD
Laura Curtis, MS, RD
Dawn Clifford, PhD, RD, is Associate Professor and Director of the Didactic Program in Dietetics in teh Department of Nutririon and Food Science at California State University, Chico. In addition, she cofounded and is currently Director of FitU, a peer mentoring nutrition and exercise counselling program on campus. She received the Outstanding Dietetic Educators and Preceptors, a practice group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Dr. Clifford conducts research and is an accomplished speaker in the areas of motivational interviewing and no- diet approaches to health and wellness. She published several research articles in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior and written curricula for Today's Dietitian and Nutrition Dimensions. She is a memeber of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).
Laura Curtis, MS, RD, is Director of Nutritional Services at Glenn Medical Center in Willows, California, where she provides clinical nutrition services to patients in acute care and is a nutrition therapists for the outpatient clinic. In addition, she serves as a preceptor to undergraduate dietitics students and is a part-time lecturer at California State University, Chico. Ms. Curtis has extensive training in motivational interviewing at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. As a nutrition therapists, she provides counseling to patients with conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and disordered eating, and to those considereing bariatric surgery. In her counselling, she pairs motivational inteviweing with the non-diet pronciples of intuitive eating and Health at Every Size.
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