Renal Health and Nutrition (1 CME Point)

Date: 7:00 pm Monday 20th Apr 2026

Description
This webinar provides a comprehensive, evidence-based exploration of the relationship between nutrition, lifestyle, and kidney health. It will examine how specific dietary patterns can help protect and preserve renal function, alongside a critical review of dietary and lifestyle factors that may contribute to kidney damage or disease progression. Drawing on clinical experience and current research, the session will also highlight practical strategies and resources that healthcare professionals can use to support patients in adopting sustainable dietary and lifestyle changes to improve renal outcomes.

Learning Outcomes

  • Understand the scientific evidence supporting dietary patterns that help protect kidney function
  • Identify key nutrients and dietary approaches associated with improved renal health outcomes
  • Recognise dietary and lifestyle factors that may contribute to the development or progression of kidney disease
  • Evaluate the impact of common habits (e.g., poor diet, inactivity) on renal health
  • Access and utilise reliable resources to support implementation of kidney-protective diets
  • Access tools and guidance to address and improve adverse dietary and lifestyle behaviours
  • Develop practical strategies to support patients in making sustainable dietary and lifestyle changes
  • Gain confidence in advising patients on nutrition interventions for kidney health in clinical practice

Date: 7:00 pm Monday 20th Apr 2026

Webinar Speakers:

Alice serves as  Nutrition Education Lead and is also a Senior Nutritionist for Nutritank. Her main role is organising speakers for Nutritank’s medical nutrition education programme and also supporting with the creation of their lifestyle medicine courses. Alongside Nutritank’s lead dietitian Rachel White, she also supervises students from universities across the UK who come to do their healthcare placements. Outside of Nutritank, she works as a health coach for the NHS National Diabetes Prevention Programme, supporting individuals with type 2 diabetes prevention and tier 2 weight management. Her previous work has been across the food industry, agriculture, nutrition education, with an academic placement at the University of Oxford focused on neonatal nutrition and pain perception research at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Committed to the intersection of mental health and nutrition, Alice has a particular interest in nutritional psychiatry and trauma-informed care. She is a peer reviewer for the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health and has written for publications including The BMJ, Daily Telegraph, and Psychologies magazine.

Alice is an active advocate for social equity in nutrition. She founded Nutrition United, a global network bringing professionals together to collaborate regarding education, food poverty and nutritional inequalities. She is a trustee of the Ember Foundation, advocating for Afghan women and girls who are experiencing gender apartheid impacting their access to education and healthcare, and volunteers as Clinical Nutrition Lead for Mind Health for Medical Students and mentors emerging professionals in nutrition and dietetics.

Drawing from her personal experiences as a survivor of the A.C.E cult, Alice is passionate about supporting survivors of trauma through evidence-based lifestyle strategies including nutrition, movement, and stress management. She is a qualified trauma-informed yoga teacher, and has experience of working in voluntary mental health support roles  with women affected by domestic abuse, spiritual abuse and coercive control.

Her goal is to empower individuals through personalised nutrition and  lifestyle medicine interventions to improve their health, contribute to the growing field of nutritional psychiatry, and help create more inclusive pathways for women in science and healthcare.

Alice serves as  Nutrition Education Lead and is also a Senior Nutritionist for Nutritank. Her main role is organising speakers for Nutritank’s medical nutrition education programme and also supporting with the creation of their lifestyle medicine courses. Alongside Nutritank’s lead dietitian Rachel White, she also supervises students from universities across the UK who come to do their healthcare placements. Outside of Nutritank, she works as a health coach for the NHS National Diabetes Prevention Programme, supporting individuals with type 2 diabetes prevention and tier 2 weight management. Her previous work has been across the food industry, agriculture, nutrition education, with an academic placement at the University of Oxford focused on neonatal nutrition and pain perception research at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Committed to the intersection of mental health and nutrition, Alice has a particular interest in nutritional psychiatry and trauma-informed care. She is a peer reviewer for the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health and has written for publications including The BMJ, Daily Telegraph, and Psychologies magazine.

Alice is an active advocate for social equity in nutrition. She founded Nutrition United, a global network bringing professionals together to collaborate regarding education, food poverty and nutritional inequalities. She is a trustee of the Ember Foundation, advocating for Afghan women and girls who are experiencing gender apartheid impacting their access to education and healthcare, and volunteers as Clinical Nutrition Lead for Mind Health for Medical Students and mentors emerging professionals in nutrition and dietetics.

Drawing from her personal experiences as a survivor of the A.C.E cult, Alice is passionate about supporting survivors of trauma through evidence-based lifestyle strategies including nutrition, movement, and stress management. She is a qualified trauma-informed yoga teacher, and has experience of working in voluntary mental health support roles  with women affected by domestic abuse, spiritual abuse and coercive control.

Her goal is to empower individuals through personalised nutrition and  lifestyle medicine interventions to improve their health, contribute to the growing field of nutritional psychiatry, and help create more inclusive pathways for women in science and healthcare.

Dr Barbara Engel

Alice serves as  Nutrition Education Lead and is also a Senior Nutritionist for Nutritank. Her main role is organising speakers for Nutritank’s medical nutrition education programme and also supporting with the creation of their lifestyle medicine courses. Alongside Nutritank’s lead dietitian Rachel White, she also supervises students from universities across the UK who come to do their healthcare placements. Outside of Nutritank, she works as a health coach for the NHS National Diabetes Prevention Programme, supporting individuals with type 2 diabetes prevention and tier 2 weight management. Her previous work has been across the food industry, agriculture, nutrition education, with an academic placement at the University of Oxford focused on neonatal nutrition and pain perception research at the John Radcliffe Hospital.

Committed to the intersection of mental health and nutrition, Alice has a particular interest in nutritional psychiatry and trauma-informed care. She is a peer reviewer for the BMJ Nutrition, Prevention & Health and has written for publications including The BMJ, Daily Telegraph, and Psychologies magazine.

Alice is an active advocate for social equity in nutrition. She founded Nutrition United, a global network bringing professionals together to collaborate regarding education, food poverty and nutritional inequalities. She is a trustee of the Ember Foundation, advocating for Afghan women and girls who are experiencing gender apartheid impacting their access to education and healthcare, and volunteers as Clinical Nutrition Lead for Mind Health for Medical Students and mentors emerging professionals in nutrition and dietetics.

Drawing from her personal experiences as a survivor of the A.C.E cult, Alice is passionate about supporting survivors of trauma through evidence-based lifestyle strategies including nutrition, movement, and stress management. She is a qualified trauma-informed yoga teacher, and has experience of working in voluntary mental health support roles  with women affected by domestic abuse, spiritual abuse and coercive control.

Her goal is to empower individuals through personalised nutrition and  lifestyle medicine interventions to improve their health, contribute to the growing field of nutritional psychiatry, and help create more inclusive pathways for women in science and healthcare.

Dr Barbara Engel is an experienced dietitian with over 30 years of clinical practice in NHS hospitals, specialising in renal disease. She completed her PhD in 2007 focusing on body composition in individuals with kidney disease and has held academic roles at the University of Surrey, including Programme Director for Dietetics. Currently a visiting lecturer, she also leads a public health initiative and contributes to renal nutrition research and education. In recognition of her contributions, she was awarded Fellowship of the British Dietetic Association in 2024.

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