CPD Course VOD | Working with children: From pre-pregnancy to late adolescence

Dr Kirstie Lawton is an AfN registered Nutritionist and a BANT and CNHC registered Nutritional Therapist with a BSc Hons in Public Health Nutrition and a PhD in paediatric nutrition and dietary interventions from Queen Margaret University in Edinburgh. She also completed the 3 year ION diploma in Nutritional Therapy, and more recently, completed her PCGE in Higher Education through the University of London.

Kirstie has been a paediatric nutritionist for 22 years, and has worked both in the UK and internationally, as head of Childrens’ Health Initiatives for Edinburgh Community Food Initiative until 2007, as a researcher and advisor for various charities in Haiti, the Middle East and Africa, as Head of a nationwide Nutrition Department for adolescents and young adults in the United Arab Emirates from 2008-2017, and in her own clinic, You Nutrition, where she specialises in child, adolescent and young adult health in clinical areas such as gut, immune and brain health. In addition to clinical paediatric nutrition, Kirstie has a research interest in neurodegeneration.

Since its inception, she has been the module coordinator for 3 modules on the Graduate Diploma at ION (functional nutrition, gastrointestinal health and detoxification, and immune health), and teaches child health and clinical practice across all ION courses. She is on the Editorial Board for the Nutritional Medicine Institute and is also a health coach at Second Nature.