NorthWest Nutrition is headed by Wirral based nutrition expert and registered Dietitian: Anne Myers-Wright. (RD). Anne has a true passion for food, nutrition and health education. Her mission is to share her passion for healthy eating and to enhance the health and wellbeing of individuals and organisations through effective, evidence based and realistic approaches to achieving optimum nutrition.
Anne’s background:
Anne came into dietetics with a science teaching background, having first completed a Bachelor of Science Degree, (majoring in Anatomy and Physiology) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Education in Queensland, Australia. She then went on to complete the Postgraduate Diploma in Nutrition and Dietetics, at the Queensland University of Technology, (June 1994) . Anne now has nearly 18 years experience as a Dietitian and Nutritionist, working in a wide and varied range of clinical areas as well as in private consultancy, health promotion and food service management.
Anne’s dietetic career has been across both Australia and the United Kingdom.
In Australia, Anne worked in an extensive variety of clinical areas in hospitals in Queensland, in a successful private practice, teaching and lecturing, community (including work with the Australian indigenous population) and health promotion.
Her experience also includes that as Dietitian for the National Heart Foundation (Qld), where she delivered workplace health promotion programmes and corporate health seminars. In her work in Australia, Anne developed and delivered the nutrition component of many health promotion programmes such as the “Healthy for Life Programme” and taught nutrition to hospitality and catering students.
In 1999, Anne ventured to the UK on a two year working holiday, where she worked as a Senior Community Dietitian in the North West of England. It was there that she met her husband to be, (yes, in an English pub!), before returning briefly to Australia only to return to settle in the UK in 2003.
Since moving to the UK, Anne has worked as Chief Dietitian/Advanced Specialist Dietitian in Diabetes, as a Freelance Dietitian and most recently as Programme Leader Msc Diabetes Management, Programme Leader in Human Nutrition and Senior lecturer in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Chester.
Anne is a Health Professions Council registered dietitian (RD), a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), a member of the British Dietetic Association, The Nutrition Society and of The Dietitian’s Association of Australia.
