CentraState registered dietitian, Caryn Alter, recently earned the designation of Fellow of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (FAND). This designation recognizes commitment to the field of dietetics, professional accomplishments, and the pursuit of life-long learning. It also signifies the designee’s dedication to customer focus, integrity, innovation, and social responsibility.
The criteria for achieving Fellowship status include continued professional education, post-graduate education, mentoring dietetic interns or graduate students, public speaking and presentations, volunteer public service, and publishing and research.
Alter has been an integral part of the Live Life Well initiative and programs offered through CentraState’s Star and Barry Tobias Health Awareness Center and currently facilitates numerous programs to help patients eat healthier, lose weight, manage chronic conditions and obtain overall better health and wellness. She also serves as CentraState’s Cardiac Rehabilitation Program dietitian.
Alter joins CentraState registered dietitians Aimee Crant-Oksa and Mary Piciocco in earning the FAND designation.
For more information about all of the health and wellness programs offered at CentraState, visit livelifewellnj.com or call 866-CENTRA7.
CentraState Healthcare System is a nonprofit community health organization consisting of an acute-care hospital, a health and wellness campus, three senior living communities, a Family Medicine Residency Program, and a charitable foundation. CentraState’s teaching program is sponsored by Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.