The newest addition to our WORK family!

This week, I would just like to let you know about the newest addition to our WORK family! Yes, please read that carefully…

Mary Kate Keyes, MS, RD, LDN, has been involved in the nutrition field for over nine years and is a welcome addition to the Sensible Nutrition / Wellness Workdays team. As one of our nutritionists, Mary Kate will be providing individual nutrition counseling on weight management, sport nutrition, cholesterol and other disease management issues, body composition and metabolism measures, personal health assessments and seminars, lectures and screenings for our corporate clients.

Prior to joining Sensible Nutrition, Mary Kate most recently launched a special eight week program called “Smell it, Touch it, Taste it” for the South Boston Catholic Academy to encourage children to smell, touch and taste foods that were new to them. She developed classroom curriculum and created brochures targeted to the parents to help them encourage their children to try nutritious foods.

Prior to that she was at Brigham and Women’s Hospital serving as a dietetic intern. She worked independently as part of a multidisciplinary team and counseled and motivated a diverse population of patients to eat more healthfully. In addition, she assessed the nutrition needs of critically ill patients, determined the patient’s nutrition risk, and recommended appropriate medical nutrition therapy. She has also worked for Massachusetts General Hospital, Tufts University Health and Sciences School, and with the USDA / HNRCA at Tufts University.

Mary Kate has written several articles for Aetna InteliHealth, one of the leading online health information companies in the world featuring Harvard Medical School's consumer health information.

She is a registered dietitian with a Master of Science degree in Nutrition Communication from the Tufts University Friedman School of Nutrition. She earned her undergraduate degree at Merrimack College graduating Cum Laude. Most recently she finished a dietetic intern program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, an intensive program that meets the requirements for becoming a Registered Dietitian (R.D.) as established by the Commission on Dietetic Registration and qualifies individuals to sit for the national exam. She is a member of the American Dietetic Association and the Massachusetts Dietetic Association.

In her free time, Mary Kate enjoys running. This passion began in 2004 when she ran the Kona Marathon in Hawaii. Since then Mary Kate has run three more marathons including Vermont City and Boston. Mary Kate’s knees asked her to stop running such distances, and while running is still a big part of her life, she has most recently participated in local 10Ks and half marathons. In addition to running, Mary Kate enjoys good laughs with friends and family.
Welcome Mary Kate! Hopefully you will all have a chance to meet her at an upcoming lecture, screening or 1-1 session.


-Debra


* Key to Credentials Abbreviations

MS- Master of Science, Applied Physiology and Nutrition
RD – Registered Dietitian
LDN- Licensed Dietitian / Nutritionist