Ep 49 - Fiona Willer, AdvAPD

 

It’s Fi-squared!!! (Fi Sutherland & Fi Willer)

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Fiona Willer, AdvAPD on how data can drive our understanding of client-centered practice.

Here Fi & Fi speak about:

  • The essentials of weight science, and what every Dietitian needs to know about understanding research

  • Fi’s commitment to her PhD, and what her important research found out!

  • The discrepancies between the way Dietitians identify their practice and their level of knowledge in weight-inclusive approaches.

  • The problematic nature of Paediatric weight-focussed research, including lack of long-term follow up.

  • Fi’s favourite episode from her “Unpacking Weight Science” Podcast and what you can expect from signing up!

  • If Fi was designing her own Dietetic program…..and her wishes for the profession

  • Upcoming training for Dietitians in 2020

 
 

More about Fiona

Fiona Willer is an Advanced Accredited Practising Dietitian who combines academic research, university lecturing and public speaking with creating professional development resources and training for health professionals through her business, Health Not Diets. Her research areas are dietetic private practice benchmarking, inter-professional learning and the integration of weight neutral lifestyle approaches (including Health at Every Size® and the Non-Diet Approach) into the practice of health professionals, particularly dietitians. Creator of the innovative Unpacking Weight Science professional development podcast, Fiona has great enthusiasm for both interrogating weight research and overusing food and eating metaphors in everyday life.

Find out more:

Unpacking Weight Science

Health, Not Diets