Media Launch – Gaye Rutherford introduced as SDA president of the Board
Sports activities Dietitians Australia (SDA) is happy to announce the appointment of Gaye Rutherford to President of the Board. This follows the conclusion of Simone Austin’s tenure, although Ms Austin stays a pivotal member of Sports activities Dietitians Australia shifting ahead.
Ms Austin says “We’re all Sports activities Dietitians Australia! Our members make up the Sports activities Dietitians Australia tribe and collectively we obtain extra. Being engaged together with your occupation is the way it and you’ll develop. I’m delighted to move the baton to Gaye and congratulate her on the appointment”.
Gaye Rutherford is on her third time period on the Sports activities Dietitians Australia Board, and is happy to be elected to the Presidency. Ms Rutherford brings a novel mixture of expertise to the organisation, having beforehand labored in tv, company consulting, and enterprise improvement earlier than turning into a dietitian with a ardour for wellbeing and efficiency. A former Board member with the Coronary heart Basis Tasmania Division, and longstanding Board member in business building enterprise Fairbrother, Ms Rutherford has expertise throughout numerous Board settings and workforce dynamics.
“I’m honoured and grateful to be given this chance to serve the Sports activities Dietitians Australia Board and tribe”, Ms Rutherford mentioned. “The brand new Board has a wealth of information, expertise and fervour, and the vitality we share is so inspiring.”
Ms Rutherford paid tribute to the efforts of the broader Sports activities Dietitians Australia Board, employees and committees. “It’s superb to work with groups the place everybody shares the identical Sports activities Dietitians Australia imaginative and prescient and fervour for evidence-based sports activities diet. I’ve a fantastic associate in Dom Rental, persevering with Sports activities Dietitians Australia Vice President for her third time period and who performs an important function in our training choices, so necessary with our biennial convention approaching in 2021, and who additionally brings members collectively to advocate for the worth of sporting codes and groups proactively in search of to work with certified and skilled Accredited Sports activities Dietitians.”
Sports activities Dietitians Australia additionally welcomes Accredited Sports activities Dietitian Pip Taylor and Superior Sports activities Dietitian Sally Anderson to the Board. Ms Taylor and Ms Anderson deliver with them a wealth of information and expertise throughout numerous sports activities settings and we stay up for their invaluable contribution. Sports activities Dietitians Australia additionally welcomes Professor Paulo de Souza, Appointed Director, who has practically twenty years of labor in business, consultancy, analysis, and educational organisations. He brings to the board intensive expertise in strategic planning, innovation, complicated stakeholder administration, and IT-related tasks throughout completely different fields. He’s a leisure ultra-marathoner primarily based at Gold Coast and Head of the Faculty of ICT with Griffith College.
Shifting into 2021, Sports activities Dietitians Australia is in a robust place to serve and interact members, and to implement methods. Ms Rutherford has nice pleasure for the way forward for Sports activities Dietitians Australia. “We have now rapidly transitioned to on-line studying for our members and are persevering with to search for revolutionary methods we will serve our members, harnessing new on-line expertise and member engagement platforms. In occasions when psychological well being has by no means been extra necessary, with my well-being hat firmly on, I’m eager to discover methods Sports activities Dietitians Australia can improve public consciousness of the methods working with an Accredited Sports activities Dietitian can positively assist many sides of psychological well being.
Sports activities Dietitians Australia is the height physique for dietitians who undertake additional skilled improvement and credentialing particular to evidence-based sports activities diet.
Athletes of all ages and exercise ranges can join with Sports activities Dietitians Australia’s members for sports activities diet assist by way of https://www.sportsdietitians.com.au/#find-sports-dietitian
Contact info:
Marie Walters, Govt Officer, Sports activities Dietitians Australia, marie@sportsdietitians.com.au
