Meredith Crow, MA, RD, LD has begun dietician consulting for The Mayflower Community (Grinnell IA). Current consultant, Peg Ehler, will retire February 26th.
Meredith is a Valley High School (West Des Moines) graduate, who received her degree in dietetics from Iowa State University, Ames and three-year masters in clinical mental health counseling from the Denver Seminary, Littleton, Colorado. In between, Meredith completed a dietetic internship at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics. For dietician graduates, this is similar to a medical residency for doctoral students. While living in Iowa City, Meredith completed some graduate coursework in public health.
Early in her dietetics career, Meredith discovered that people’s health is driven by mental, physical, and spiritual needs as well as by food. Therefore, she decided to combine her dietician training with a counseling degree to maximize her consulting services and continuity of care to clients.
Most recently, Meredith has been providing counseling services for MercyOne Des Moines health clinics, which includes specializing in eating disorder treatment. She will work at Mayflower one to two days a week.
In addition to regulatory dietetics consulting for healthcare residents, Meredith will be providing information and counseling available to all residents in the areas of food as medicine, healthy supplements, life styles and diets, and health independence.
Meredith and her husband have a toddler and live in Urbandale, Iowa, where they moved in 2019 from Denver. She is an avid runner and a life-long student.
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