Doctor Sian Shepherd

Specialist Registered Dietitian at The BMI Cavell Hospital and The BMI Kings Oak Hospital, Enfield, Middlesex

Doctor Sian Shepherd   specialized in Nutrition
Country

United Kingdom

Speciality
Nutrition
Subspeciality
Medical Dietitian and Sports Dietitian
Experience
1996 years
Languages
English

Areas of expertise

  • Irritable bowel syndrome (trained Low FODMAP practitioner)
  • Coeliac disease
  • Inflammatory bowel diseases, specifically Ulcerative Colitis and Crohn's
  • Nutritional Support of patients with cancer, swallowing difficulties or neurological impairment such as Parkinson's disease and dementia
  • Type II Diabetes
  • Dietary management of elevated cholesterol
  • Women's health promoting guidance during pregnancy, menopause and older age
  • Weight management programmes
  • Sports Nutrition

About the expert

Dr Shepherd is currently employed as Specialist Gastroenterology Dietitian at Guys and St Thomas's Hospitals in UK. She is fully trained as a Kings College Low FODMAP practitioner and has repeatedly achieved excellent results with a large number of patients by helping them identify which foods are problematic and subsequently equip them to manage their symptoms of irritable bowel and other functional gut syndromes which is helpful in establishing symptoms relief in 59% of patients in the longer term. She is experienced in the assessment, planning of prescriptions and the management of patients on enteral and parenteral nutrition both before and after surgery as well as providing dietary management to patients with Polycystic Ovary disease and those requiring Lipid Lowering and a structured Weight Management program.

    Dr Sian graduated from the University of Surrey with an Honours Degree in Nutrition, having trained as a student Dietitian at St Bartholomew's Hospital, The Institute of Child Health, Great Ormond Street Hospital and the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff.

    Sian worked for several years as a Senior Dietitian with Barnet and Chase Farm NHS Trust and The North Middlesex NHS Trusts. In this capacity she worked closely with the Head and Neck Oncology, Gastroenterology and Diabetes teams, in addition to making regular contributions at The Cardiac Rehabilitation Education programme at Chase Farm Hospital.

    Between 2004 and 2011 she was a Senior Dietitian at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust. She has concurrently run her private dietetic consultancy practice at BMI Cavell Hospital since 2002 and at BMI The Kings Oak Hospital since 2008, specialising in the dietary management of gastroenterology, oncology and Type II diabetes patients.

    In 2005 after National Accreditation as a Sports Dietitian, she was admitted onto the National Sports and Exercise Nutritionist register. In 2006/07 she worked with Hertfordshire Sports Development Unit advising many of the junior county sports teams regarding their nutrition and fluid requirements and has worked with many elite athletes at national and local level in the world of badminton, sailing and judo. She was an adviser to a research team at Portsmouth University in 2008/09, reviewing the development of a range of healthy and non-allergenic weaning and toddler foods which were later launched in Waitrose, Ocado and Little Chef.

    She then served as a Dietitian for Older People and Trauma patients at The Whittington Hospital in London, a role she developed and was privileged to undertake from 2013 - 2016. Prior to this she worked as Gastroenterology Specialist Dietitian at The Homerton Hospital (2012/13), as a Specialist Neurology/Stroke Dietitian at Kings College NHS Foundation Trust, London (2012).

    She was part of the award winning catering and dietetic team at The Royal Marsden Hospital, receiving ‘Good Food on the Public Plate’ awards from Sustain, for incorporating local, seasonal and organic produce into the hospital menus.

  • Specialist Registered Dietitian

    2002 - Today

    The BMI Cavell Hospital and The BMI Kings Oak Hospital, Enfield, Middlesex

  • Clinical Registered Dietitian - (Bank)

    2017 - Today

    Barnet and Chase Farm Hospitals

  • Clinical Registered Dietitian (Bank)

    2016 - 2016

    Guys and St Thomas's Hospitals

  • Band 7 Specialist Clinical Dietitian (Dietitian for Older People and Trauma patients)

    2013 - 2016

    The Whittington Hospital

  • Specialist Clinical Dietitian

    2012 - 2013

    Homerton University Hospital Foundation Trust

  • Specialist Neurology/Stroke Dietitian

    2012 - 2012

    Kings College NHS Foundation Trust

  • Band 7 Specialist Dietitian

    2004 - 2011

    The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

  • Sports Dietitian

    The National Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register

    2015

  • Post-graduate Teaching Certificate in Adult Education

  • Behavioural Change Training course

    The British Dietetic Association

    2014

  • Low FODMAP course

    Kings College London

  • Parenteral and Enteral Clinical Update Course

    British Dietetic Association

    2013

  • Bsc Honours Degree in Human Nutrition & Dietetics

    University of Surrey

    1977

  • The Health Professional Council

  • The British Dietetic Association

  • The National Sport and Exercise Nutrition Register

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