Staff
Kate Neil MSc Nutritional Medicine RN RM FRSA MBANT,
Managing Director
Kate was nominated for a CAM Award in 2003 by one of our students. Kate recieved the Award at the Brighton Trade Show in March 2004 for her contribution to the nutritional therapy community over the past twenty years. Kate has been integral to defining the role of a nutritional therapist over the past decade. Kate has been committed to improving educational training standards for nutritional therapy since 1987 and realised early on in her career that degree status would be important for the long-term credibility of the profession. Kate directed courses for ION for 10 years until 1998. She then joined the University of Westminster and was part of the team that developed the first degree course in nutritional therapy. Kate supervised their clinical training for two years. Over that period of time she updated and directed nutritional therapy courses for Raworth College.
In the summer of 2001 Kate opened the Centre for Nutrition Education with the direct intention of developing a nutritional therapy course that would focus fully on teaching the underpinning knowledge and developing the skills needed for clinical practice and would achieve university degree status. By January 2003 Middlesex University had validated the nutritional therapy course being taught at the Centre as a BSc Hons in Nutritional Therapy. Achieving a fully validated status as a private Centre is not easy to achieve as you need to demonstrate that you are able to deliver a course with the same rigour as course delivered within a university.
In 1999 Kate developed The Nutrition Practitioner journal and was founding Editor. Kate remains Editor of the journal. In 1993 Kate authored Balancing Hormones Naturally which was updated and republished in 1998. She regularly contributes articles and chapters to nutrition texts. Kate offers services to several companies and is Clinical Supervisor for nutritional therapists at Penny Brohn Cancer Care (previously Bristol Cancer Help Centre).
Since then Kate with her staff have developed postgraduate courses, NLP coaching courses, ITEC, RIPH and a variety of courses that the public can participate in. The Centre hopes to start a new BSc Hons Nutritional Science course in January 2009 (subject to MU validation).
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