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Live Webinar Date: 8/27/19 The Brain Injury Association of NC presents… “Nutrition & Brain Injury.” Nutrition is a key component to healthy rehabilitation and lifestyle, but it can be so challenging to achieve! Jamie Ritchie discusses acute brain injuries and it’s relation to nutrition, reviews barriers to optimal nutrition in brain injuries, discusses dysphagia nutrition therapy, reviews nutrition recommendations for brain injuries, and discusses the MIND diet and sample meals.
Speaker:
Jamie Ritchie is a registered dietitian and holds a Master’s degree in it as well from East Carolina University. She has acted as a clinical and consulting dietician for skilled nursing facilities, hospice, home health care, and post-acute supportive living and rehabilitations settings for individuals living with brain injury, including Learning Services in North Carolina. She is a Certified Brain Injury Specialist and a Board Certified in Gerontological Nutrition. Thank you so much for being here today, Jamie, to talk about such an important topic to every human, let along individuals living with brain injury.