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Clinical Dietitian and Health Educator: Helen Ramsey

February 08, 2007

Helen Ramsey, Clinical Dietitian and Health Educator, is a licensed and registered dietitian as well as a certified diabetes educator. She received her Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from Indiana State University, Terre Haute, and she worked toward her master's in Nutrition at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. Other than working four years at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City, and one year at St. Francis Medical Center in Tulsa - Helen's professional career has been with St. Francis Regional Medical Center/Via Christi Regional Medical Center since 1977. She provided nutritional assessments, counseling, and education. She also worked in Cardiac Rehabilitation and the Diabetes Treatment Center. She was a consulting dietitian with Family Medicine physician groups, and with long term care facilities.

Prior to joining the team at Prevention & Health Center (later renamed Solutions For Life) in 2001, Helen developed the nutrition protocols for the Heart Transplant and Cardiac Rehabilitation teams, and she co-authored materials for their patients. She also facilitated the heart transplant support group.

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The expertise Helen gained with these programs has been especially applicable to the focus of her work at Solutions For Life. She developed nutrition protocols for the gastric bypass surgery program. She wrote the curriculum for and teaches nutritional lifestyle education classes for the surgical weight management program. In addition to the pre-operative nutrition classes, Helen teaches post-operative classes where she and the patients problem-solve together how to get their proper nutrition and maximize their weight loss. In addition to working with surgical patients, Helen teaches in the HMR Program for Weight ManagementTM.

Helen's motivation
"I have taught in a variety of nutrition education areas throughout my career. I enjoy helping people improve or maintain health, no matter what their age. I particularly enjoy the outpatient area as I can be on the journey with them and see the success they achieve. I also enjoy the challenges of new program development and the continued changes in the health care field. One of the benefits of working for Solutions For Life is the interdisciplinary team concept of all professions collaborating for the patients' well-being."

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