{"id":1312,"date":"2009-05-18T14:40:46","date_gmt":"2009-05-18T14:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/05\/18\/delta-state-dietitians-shine-at-state-conference\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:54:57","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:54:57","slug":"delta-state-dietitians-shine-at-state-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/05\/delta-state-dietitians-shine-at-state-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State dietitians shine at state conference"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From left, Pickard, McPherson and Rowland<\/font><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Dietitians from the Delta State University Dietetics program in the College of Education’s Division of Family and Consumer Sciences recently took top honors at the 61st<\/sup> annual meeting of the Mississippi Dietetics Association (MDA) in Jackson. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Will Rowland, a graduating senior from Belzoni, was named Outstanding Dietetic Student for the state.  Upon graduation, Rowland plans to begin work as a Consultant Dietitian for Tara Cares.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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Leigh Pickard, a Registered Dietitian from Cleveland, received the title of Recognized Young Dietitian for Mississippi. She is a 2004 graduate of the Delta State Dietetics Program.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Pickard is employed as Chief Dietitian at the Northwest Regional Medical Center in Clarksdale and acts as a clinical nutrition preceptor for the Delta State Dietetics students. <\/span><\/div>\n
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In addition, Draughon McPherson, RD, an adjunct instructor of nutrition in the Delta State Dietetics Program and a resident of Indianola, was recognized as Emerging Dietetic Leader for MDA, an organization of approximately 850 dietitians throughout the state.  <\/span><\/div>\n
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Along with the award, McPherson was extended an invitation to attend the American Dietetic Association Leadership Institute in Dallas, Texas in June with other recipients across the nation. <\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From left, Pickard, McPherson and Rowland   Dietitians from the Delta State University Dietetics program in the College of Education’s Division of Family and Consumer Sciences recently took top honors…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1312"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41676,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1312\/revisions\/41676"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}