Alice Merritt, MPH, RD, LDN, earns Certified Eating Disorder Registered Dietitian(CEDRD) certification

Awarded by the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedpTM), Veritas Collaborative’s Nutrition and Dietetic Services Manager, Alice Merritt, MPH, RD, LDN, earns her Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian certification.

Awarded by the International Association of Eating Disorders Professionals (iaedpTM), Veritas Collaborative’s Nutrition and Dietetic Services Manager, Alice Merritt, MPH, RD, LDN, earns her Certified Eating Disorders Registered Dietitian certification.

Candidates who choose to work towards this certification are required to maintain their Registered Dietitian status through continuing education courses, enroll in various eating-disorder-specific iaedpTM courses, complete a 1500 word case study, pass the iaedpTM Certification Exam, have at least 2000 supervised direct care hours with eating disordered patients, and write a statement of intent. They must also be current iaedpTM members, sign an ethics statement, and provide three professional letters of recommendation.

Alice joins fewer than 50 professionals who’ve also obtained their CEDRD.

I am so impressed with how she seeks every opportunity to learn more about this field and best practice treatments. She has a sense of self-initiative that you don’t see very often. She cares deeply and passionately about our patients and their recovery, and she fights hard for them. She exemplifies why dietitianare a critical part of any effective treatment team.
— Laurea Glusman McAllister, MSW, MDiv, LCSW, CEDS, Center Director, Veritas Collaborative

Alice is a Registered Dietitian and licensed in North Carolina to provide medical nutrition therapy. She received her Master’s degree in Public Health Nutrition from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in August 2004. She has specialized training in nutrition therapy for eating disorders and has worked with this population for more than 6 years.

Before joining Veritas, Alice worked as both a campus dietitian and a center dietitian in an eating disorder program for both adults and adolescents. Goals of her sessions with patients are to establish a healthy relationship with food, use intuitive eating to understand hunger/satiety cues, and find a realistic meal pattern using balance and moderation. Alice is a member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.