Up Close and Personal with...

Before the month of March comes to a close, I want to dedicate a post to Sophia Elie, a dietetic intern who did a portion of her clinical rotation at our hospital. On her last day, I did this interview and she agreed to be a guest on my blog. So, here is my first interview on Sylvia's Scenario in honor of National Nutrition Month.

Sophia was born and raised in San Diego, California and she had more experience than most interns we've gotten in the past which made my job a lot easier! She worked as a physical therapist assistant so she was very comfortable around patients and easily established rapport with the ones in our hospital. She currently has her own consulting business where she provides individual nutrition counseling for a fee, custom meal planning, and medical nutrition therapy. Needless to say, there was very little we had to teach her when it came to providing nutrition education to patients. She worked a year in the Washington D.C. area for a hospitality company in corporate nutrition after completing her B.S. in Food and Dietetics at Bastyr University in Seattle. Bastyr is an internationally known science-based natural medicine university. We had never had an intern who had a naturopathic nutrition backyard, something I could relate to since I actually took my kids to Bastyr Natural Health Clinic for healthcare when we lived in Seattle. I also had contacts at Bastyr when I had my private practice in Seattle, as a go-to resource since they are experts in alternative medicine that so many consumers would ask me about. Sophia was very active on compass when she was there and was President of the Carnivore Club. One goal that Sophia had was to get the cafeteria to begin serving meat. Bastyr had been a vegetarian campus for 30 years but Sophia accomplished her goal and they now serve meat in their cafeteria. Sophia is not vegetarian, as you might guess, but she does follow a gluten free diet and has been participating in Cross Fit since last July including national open competitions. Other activities she enjoys are cooking, outdoor activities, and dancing. She was on her high school's dance team and also a member of a Latin social dance group.

This is probably not the last you will hear about Sophia since her business is going strong. It is called Wisdom's Kitchen (Sophia means wisdom in Greek) and you can contact her at sophia.eli@bastyr.edu. The future of my profession is in good hands. It was a pleasure to be Sophia's preceptor.

You Go Girl!

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