Beth Willson is a Specialist Dietitian based in the United Kingdom. She is currently working as a Specialist Gastroenterology and Critical Care Dietitian in a NHS teaching hospital in London.
Beth is passionate about providing people with digestive issues the support that they need, which can often be overlooked by other healthcare professionals. She aspires to educate people so that they able to confidently manage their conditions and symptoms in the long term.
Beth joined the Food Treatment Clinic in 2021 as our Online Content Manager. As somebody who uses social media herself, Beth understands how the internet can cause a great amount of confusion when it comes to nutrition and health. She is driven to help combat the online misinformation around nutrition, particularly for digestive health. At the Food Treatment Clinic, Beth ensures our blog posts are science based and up to date so that we can correctly educate you on the management of IBS.
Outside of this, Beth supports inpatient on the Gastroenterology ward and Intensive Care Unit in a London hospital. She also sees people in clinics, where she provides holistic diet and lifestyle advice to people living with complex gut symptoms and/or disease, including IBS.
QUALIFICATIONS/TRAINING
BSc (Hons) Nutrition and Dietetics – University of Surrey – 2020
REGISTRATIONS
HCPC Registered Dietitian (DT31228) – 2020-present
Full Member of the British Dietetic Association – 2020-present
Full Member of the Gastroenterology Specialist Group – 2021-present
EXPERIENCE
2022-Present: Specialist Rotational Dietitian (Gastroenterology and Critical Care) at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust – working on the gastroenterology ward and intensive care unit, alongside a weekly gastroenterology clinic seeing patients with IBS, bile acid malabsorption, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, pancreatic disease or enzyme insufficiency, IBD in remission and more.
2021: Present: Online Content Manager – The Food Treatment Clinic – editing and publishing articles on IBS education.
2021: Surgical and Critical Care Specialist Dietitian – NHS – working with complex gastrointestinal surgeries, pancreatitis, IBD, diverticular disease, upper GI oncology surgery, intensive care, enteral and parenteral nutrition.
2020-2021: Dietitian – NHS – experience working in general medicine, general surgery, gastroenterology, oncology, stroke and paediatrics.