Clinical Dietitian (Bionutrition Research)

A Brief Overview

The Clinical Dietitian will display effective nutrition care, apply critical thinking skills and provide effective communication and education skills in daily practice.

Reporting to the Dahms Clinical Research Unit Director of Research Bionutrition, this position supports the bionutrition division of the Dahms Clinical Research Center (DCRU), a core within University Hospitals Clinical Research Unit. The DCRU has been a unit in UH for over 60 years.

• Duties include research protocol review of nutrition needs requested, preparation and implementation of nutrition related services, data analysis, quality control of data, and data collection
• Data collection includes (but not limited to) : dietary assessment, 24-hour dietary recall, menu development, diet preparation, food procurement, meal distribution, body composition assessment (including dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry equipment -DXA), lifestyle intervention, dietary counseling.
• In addition, this position requires critical thinking, excellent communication skills, efficient at time management, able to manage multiple research protocols at different stages of the research timeline, and an aptitude for problem solving.
• General X-Ray Machine Operators (GXMO) license within the first 90 days in order to operate DXA (DCRU will arrange).
• ServSafe certification within the first 90 days (DCRU will arrange)

What You Will Do

Additional Responsibilities

Qualifications : Education

Work Experience

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities

Licenses and Certifications

Physical Demands

Travel Requirements