LAUREN IKEDA

1557 LEHUA STREET HONOLULU, HI, 96819

 Honolulu, Hawai’i  (808)349-4199  ikedalauren@gmail.com

PROFILE
NUTRITION & DIETARY E XPERT| INTEGRATED HEALTHCARE | H EALTH ADVOCATE
Highly dedicated and conscientious dietetic student with excellent professional experience and work ethic.
Exceptionally adept at crafting medically mandated diets tailored to individual patient needs. Able to work with
an array of people to explain complicated nutritional information and diet plans clearly with the Aloha sprit.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
• Leadership • Team Work • Research
• Versatile • Positive • Self-Motivated
• Interpersonal Skills • Time Management • Computer Proficient

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
The Villas, Dietary Aide/Lead/Internship – Honolulu, HI August 2016 – Present
• Leadership: Responsible for communicating orders. Act as manger when needed.
• Nutrition Assessment: Complete nutritional assessments for registered dieticians by providing
anthropometric, biochemical, estimate nutrition needs (calories, fluids, & protein) and food/water intake.
• Customer Service: As a lead I interact with the residents by taking their menu order and I help to pass out
the meals and set the residents up to eat their meals.

TA for FSHN 389 (Nutrition Assessment)- University of Hawaii at Manoa January 2018- Present
• Integrity: Following a student’s thinking to interpret answer to be complete or not; consistent in grading
by being fair and reliable and knowing grading procedures and policies.

FSHN Council-Volunteer Board Member- University of Hawaii at Manoa August 2017-May 2018
• Idea generation: As a one of the board member I needed come up with different ideas that could be
potential money makers for the council.
• Teamwork: All board members and council members worked together to generate ideas and execute
fundraising projects.

Susan Hiraoka D.P.M , Medical Assistant, Honolulu & Kailua, HI July 2014-August 2015
• Customer Service: Interact with the patients when their first came in the door to until they left the office, in a
friendly and helpful manner.
• Administrative Skills: Scheduling appointments for patients through phone and in-person, ordering of
laboratory tests, processing insurance information, & imputing patient records.
• Multitasker: The office was small with only the doctor and I as the employee, in addition to the basic office
work I would also clean the rooms in-between patients, fill out lab or physical therapy form for the doctor to
sign, washed all the tools at the end of the day and would call doctor’s offices for recent medical reports and
medicines at the doctor’s request.

Sports & Exercise Science Internships:

SportCare LLC-Shadowing-Honolulu, HI Summer 2013
Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific- Shadowing-Honolulu, HI Summer of 2011,’12, ‘13
• Patient Care: Learned how health professionals (athletic trainers, physical therapist, occupational therapist
& speech therapist) takes cares of patients and what their jobs entail.
• Interpersonal Skills: Learned how to work with an array of people from elementary students to elderly
adults with health disparities
EDUCATION
• BS Dietetics, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Expected Graduation, Spring 2019
• BS Sports & Exercise Science, Seattle University, Graduate, 2014

TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Microsoft Office, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Presentation Skills