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Mentoring

Students, please find below a list of WDA members who are willing to be a mentor for you. You may contact them via email.
Mentor Name Email Work Site Area of Interest Comments
Lynne Kurz,
MS, RD, CD

lynne.kurz@aurora.org

Regional Manager, Nutrition Services
Aurora St Luke's Medical Center, Milwaukee
Clinical Management
Kari Flom
MS RD CD,
CIRS-A
flom@co.polk.wi.us Polk County Aging Programs Directing Older Americans Act Programming/Elderly nutrition in a government setting  

Christine Berndt Althaus
RD, CD

Christine.Althaus@wisconsin.gov

 

Dept. of Corrections - Central Office

Correctional Food Service

608-240-5560
Lori Corbin
RD, CD
lcorbin2@smdc.org SMDC Health System - Duluth, Minnesota

Management:  including budgets, layout and design, labor management, retail operations


Michelle Trumpy
MPH, RD, CD
MTrumpy@chw.org

Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, GI Clinic

Maternal and Child Health and children with special healthcare needs

Leanne Widen
RD, CD

leannew@widen.org

Consultant RD in Madison

Long-term Care

Susan Kasik-Miller
MS,RD,CD,CNSD

skasik@shec.hshs.org

Sacred Heart Hospital

Nutrition Support/Dialysis

Linda Petersen
RD, CD

peterlj@dhfs.state.wi.us

WI Department of Health and Family Service/Western Region Divison of Public Health

public health

Angie Wirkus
RD, CD

akwirkus@yahoo.com

Saint Joseph's Hospital, Marshfield, WI

trauma/critical care/nutrition support, geriatrics, diabetes, & more

Doris J Franklin
MS, RD. CD

dfranklin@publichealthmdc.com

Public Health of Madison & Dane County-WIC

maternal and child health, chronic disease prevention, breastfeeding and of course, public health

608-243-0428

Joan Schroeder
RD, CDE

joan.schroeder@ma-hc.com

Medical Associates Health Centers

Outpatient counseling, diabetes and weight management

262-250-5327

Sara Schmitz
RD

sschmitz@greenbay.k12.wi.us

Quality Assurance Specialist
Green Bay Public Schools Food Service

Sara Zook
RD, CD, CNSD

szook@beloitmemorialhospital.org

Beloit Memorial Hospital

Critical Care (nutrition support, cardiac, surgical), Intermediate (step-down), Oncology Outpt coverage = Pediatric Outpt Counseling, and a variety of outpt nutrition classes for the community

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About the Wisconsin Dietetic Association

The Wisconsin Dietetic Association is the link to nutrition and health in Wisconsin. This professional organization promotes registered dietitians and dietetic technicians as the nutrition experts through membership, continuing education, and legislative activities.

Members specialize in a variety of nutrition services including: 

Weight Loss

  • Recommendations for losing weight safely
  • Diet pills and ins and outs of popular diets like weight watchers, atkins diet, zone diet, cabbage soup diet, low carbohydrate diet and others

Healthy Lifestyle Promotion

  • Optimum health, wellness, chronic disease management, soy nutrition, food guide pyramid, vegetarian diets

Women's Health

  • Osteoporosis treatment and prevention, healthy menopause

Diabetes

  • Development of diabetic diet meal plans, diabetes diets and diabetes recipes
  • Carbohydrate (carb) counting

Sports Nutrition

  • Training diets and menus

Heart Disease

  • Development of low cholesterol diet menus, low fat recipes and low cholesterol diets

Cancer Nutrition

  • Cancer diet, cancer prevention, eating tips for cancer treatment

Complementary Medicine

  • Complementary therapies that include vitamin and mineral supplementation, botanicals and functional foods as well as mind/body approaches

Critical Care

  • Specialized nutrition support and critical care nutrition