Clinical Instructor, Department of Dietetics & Nutrition
The University of Kansas Medical Center, School of Allied Health
Mail Stop 4013
Kansas City , Kansas 66160

Telephone: 913.588.5363 / Fax: 913.588.8946
E-mail: abaxter@kumc.edu


Experience
30 years practice in clinical dietetics, health care administration and community nutrition.

Current Responsibilities:

• Coaches’ dietetic interns through the nutrition care management section of the registration examination with the motto ‘preparing health providers who craft their own careers
  
• Facilitates an interdisciplinary web based graduate course that adds dietary and herbal supplements to health providers’ professional practice portfolios
  
• Provides nutrition counseling for study participants adding lifestyle modification to gastric stimulation for obesity treatment; leads Transneuronix, Inc. monthly support group meetings & consults via e-mail
  
• Sub-contracts a Health Education Training Center grant providing programs like Clinical Nutrition Seminar®, an annual continuing education symposium & recruiting underrepresented students into health professions
  
• Supervises students providing medical nutrition therapy in nutrition clinics. Ms. Baxter is a KU Health Partners, Inc. allied health specialist with Medicare provider #
  
• Teaches diabetes management plus class sessions in allied health, medicine and nursing student courses
  
• Volunteers with the Mid America Medical Reserve Corps
  

Honors

• Outstanding Dietetic Educator Award - Area IV Dietetic Educators of Practitioners - 2004
  
• Marquis Who’s Who in American Education®, 6th & 7th editions, 2004 - 2007
  
• Marquis Who’s Who of American Women®, 21st edition, 2000
  
• Outstanding Dietitian for Kansas – Kansas City 1997
  
• Recognition of Service Award, American Dietetic Association House of Delegates, 1991 – 1994
  
• Distinguished Dietitian for Kansas – 1988
  
• Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year – Kansas City 1981