About Zoe

Zoe Connor has been advising people of all ages and from all backgrounds on diet and nutrition since 2001 when she qualified as a dietitian. In accordance with UK law she is registered with the Health Professions Council who ensure registrants maintain professional codes and competencies (you can verify this here).  She is also a full member of the British Dietetic Association, and various professional practice groups including the paediatric, mental health, and gastroenterology groups.

With a Masters degree in Nutrition and Dietetics, and a decade of experience working as a dietitian in the NHS and independently, you can trust that Zoe has excellent knowledge of the science of nutrition and of tailoring advice to fit in with the lives of real people.

She has helped more than 3000 people with diet issues, including over 1000 children. She has experience advising on dietary conditions from the everyday – healthy eating, weaning babies, toddler faddy eating, help with gaining or losing weight, eating better for diabetes, or heart disease – to the more specialised, such as food allergies, autism, metabolic disorders, epilepsy, and IBS.

She has also written for professional publications and been involved in various research and audit projects.  Zoe is currently the chair of Dietitians in Autism – part of the British Dietetic Association Paediatric Group.

Zoe’s approach is professional and based on the best available evidence and consensus, whilst being open to contemporary and ‘alternative’ takes on nutrition.  She is friendly and supportive of those who find dietary change difficult.

Her Health Professions Council registration is your assurance that she is appropriately qualified, keeps up her knowledge and skills to the standards set by UK law, and practices within a strict professional code of conduct.  Zoe is also registered with the Information Commissioner to abide by the Data Protection Act in accordance with UK law.

Zoe is currently based in South Warwickshire.  She’s a keen traveller and enjoys learning languages, scuba diving, yoga and good food.

Qualifications:

  • MSc Nutrition and Dietetics with distinction (Leeds Metropolitan University 2004)
  • Post Graduate Diploma Nutrition and Dietetics (Leeds Metropolitan University 2001)
  • BSc Biochemistry with Molecular Biology with first class honours (Cardiff University 1999)

Professional Experience:

  • 2007-date Freelance Dietitian and Nutrition Consultant, including locum work at Oxford Children’s Hospital, NHS Enfield Community Services, and South Staffordshire PCT
  • 2006-7 Nutrition Advisor in Indonesia with an international development organisation, tackling malnutrition in the under-5s through work with local field workers and non-government organisations.
  • 2001-6 NHS Dietitian – at Guy’s, St Thomas’s and Lewisham Hospitals in London, (rotational post from 2001-3,then  Ealing Hospital as the sole children’s dietitian from 2003-4, then as specialised children’s community dietitian for Bromley PCT, Kent. From 2004-6.
  • Experience of working with all different food and nutrition issues including nutrition support and artificial tube feeding for cancer, HIV, cystic fibrosis, stroke, Parkinson’s, MND and MS, intensive care and special care baby units; dietary management  and behavioural change counselling for gut problems, allergies,  obesity, underweight, diabetes and heart disease.; group sessions for childhood obesity for 8 to 11 year olds; healthy eating, obesity service planning and health promotion. Specialities are children’s diets particularly feeding and weaning problems, selective eating, allergy, autism and learning disabilities.

Additional professional training:

  • Clinical Sports Dietetics at the Australian Institute of Sport 2008
  • ISAK Level 1 Anthropometry course 2008
  • British Dietetic Association Paediatric Courses 1-3

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Read more about Zoe’s qualifications and experience on her LinkedIn profile

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