Registered Dietitian

Synergy Lifestyle Center is an outpatient Intensive Cardiac Rehab (ICR) center implementing Dean Ornish's Undo It program. We encourage lifestyle (Exercise, Stress Management, Community, and Nutrition) as a way to not only treat but REVERSE heart disease, and as the research shows, potentially helping to reverse other chronic diseases as well. Our program consists of 9 consecutive weeks where our participants attend 2 days a week for 4 hours per day.

Each of the 4 hours focuses on 1 of the core elements in the following order:
Exercise, Stress Management, Community via Group Support, and Nutrition. The goal is to provide education, in addition to an experiential component. Each patient participates in an hour of exercise with our exercise physiologists, guided stress management with our certified yoga instructor, group support with our licensed mental health counselor, and also receives a meal focused on whole-food, plant-based, and low-fat nutrition guidelines along with an hour-long education lecture taught by our registered dietitian.

We are open Mon-Thurs and have our "cohorts" (a cohort is a group of participants in the program that will attend the full 9 weeks together) running on either Monday and Wednesday or Tuesdays and Thursdays.

The Registered Dietitian (RD) is responsible for delivering the Nutrition element of the Ornish Reversal Program (Intensive Cardiac Rehab) and monitoring the nutritional adequacy of each patient. Provides oversight of the food service for the Program. Actively participates in the development of the interdisciplinary treatment plan to ensure the quality and clinical effectiveness of the Program, and the safety of each participant.

• Bachelor’s degree in Nutrition or Dietetics from an accredited college or university required;
  Master’s degree preferred.
• 1+ years’ experience in food service environment preferred
• Registered Dietitian with Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) accreditation and License, as needed, per state requirement

• Experience working with heart disease, diabetes, and plant-based nutrition preferred
• Health coaching and motivational interviewing experience preferred
• Experience in coaching individuals in making sustainable lifestyle changes
• Experience in plant-based meal planning, preparation, cooking and grocery shopping preferred.
• Knowledgeable about research and the role of dietary factors in heart disease, and exhibits an ability to explain these concepts clearly to participants
• Excellent public speaking skills and knowledge of adult education
• Excellent interpersonal communication skills with sensitivity to participant needs
• Excellent leadership and organizational skills
• Desire and willingness to collaborate as a member of a high-functioning transdisciplinary team that supports personal transformation
• Servsafe certified, preferred

• Provides nutrition education, counseling, and coaching to participants in accordance with the Nutrition Prescription and guidelines for the Ornish Reversal Program
• Provides a baseline nutrition consultation that includes an overview of the Nutrition Prescription, and addresses pertinent nutrition related clinical or psychosocial needs
• Reviews and assesses data collected from nutrition assessment
• Assess nutritional adequacy and adherence to nutrition guidelines for each participant
• Provides documentation of education, consults, weekly adherence and goals
• Reports to team and documents any noncompliance to nutrition guidelines or other concerns
• Collaboratively sets and documents goals with participants to support the adherence to Program guidelines. Follows up with goals and provides additional coaching, as needed
• Provides nutrition consultation with participants on an as needed basis
• Identifies participants with food allergies and collaborates with food service to provide safe and appropriate meal planning for Program meals
• Provide education during meals and promotes optimal nutrition adherence by being available to the participants during all meal sessions to answer questions and provide support
• Attends and participates in weekly team meeting
• Oversees the food service for the Program ensuring adherence to recipe, menu cycle and program guidelines for all meals serve