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Bridget launching her Registered Dietitian career in high acuity long term care and skilled rehabilitation. She provided nutrition care to patients with diagnosis from stroke and cancer, to chronic kidney disease, dementia, and those requiring enteral nutrition. She also served as the contract dietitian for the Epilepsy Foundation. In these roles, she learned the value of building trust and rapport with patients and the significance of preventative care through food and nutrition. Bridget brought these values to her role as an outpatient retail dietitian providing medical nutrition therapy where nutrition destiny in made, inside the grocery store. She then moved on to lead the Retail Clinical Dietitian program at a fortune 20 grocery chain. In her current role as Director of Nutrition for The Kroger Co. she continues to elevate a dedication, educated, and personalized approach to eating and enjoying food to help people live healthier lives. She sets nutrition strategy, serves as the subject matter expert for OptUP, a food scoring app to simplify healthier shopping. Bridget also manages the company's in-store and corporate dietitian teams, and leads Telenutrition services. In 2018 Bridget received the Supermarket Dietitian of the Year award from the Produce for Better Health Foundation and in 2019 she was honored to receive the Recognized Young Dietitian Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.