NKF recognizes dietician, educator with Joel D. Kopple Award
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Key takeaways:
- Lois Hill, MS, RDN, LD, LDE, receives the Joel D. Kopple Award.
- Hill focuses on chronic kidney disease nutrition counseling.
Lois Hill, MS, RDN, LD, LDE, dietician nutritionist and educator, was honored with the Joel D. Kopple Award at the National Kidney Foundation Spring Clinical Meetings, according to a press release.
According to the release, the award recognizes an individual who has made “significant contributions to the field of renal nutrition.”
“Receiving the Joel D. Kopple Award is a career highlight for me,” Hill said in the release. “I am honored to have had the opportunity to practice in renal nutrition and to follow in the footsteps of earlier Joel D. Kopple Award honorees whom I have held in the highest esteem.”
In her career, Hill has served as a renal dietician, a nutrition service supervisor, in various areas of clinical practice and as a CKD nutrition researcher.
She focuses primarily on chronic kidney disease nutrition counseling for patients with CKD stages 3 and 4 in her private practice in Lexington, Kentucky.
“Hill's work and continual advocacy for increased use of medical nutrition therapy in treating people with kidney disease is so important for millions of Americans,” Sylvia Rosas, MD, MSCE, NKF president, said in the release. “She is passionate about renal nutrition and is paving a path much like Dr. Kopple did a generation ago.”
Additionally, Hill will speak about renal nutrition in a lecture at the NKF Spring Clinical Meetings on April 13.
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