Memorial Hospital adds dietitian to staff

CARTHAGE, Ill. — Kara Andrew, a registered dietitian, exercise physiologist and certified lifestyle medicine professional, has been added to the team at Memorial Hospital.

Andrew specializes in eating disorders, cardiac rehab nutrition, weight management, sports nutrition, personal training and diabetes education. She is seeing patients at Memorial Medical Clinic’s hospital campus, 1450 N. County Road 2050 in Carthage.

Andrew earned her bachelor of science from Belmont University in Nashville, Tenn., and her master of science degree in exercise and nutrition science and completed a dietetic internship at Lipscomb University in Nashville. Her experience consists of personal training, teaching for ACSM, sports nutrition, weight management and long-term care and dialysis. She was a board member of the Nashville Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics from 2016 to 2021. She served as website coordinator, president-elect, president and past president. She recently become certified in lifestyle medicine by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine.

To make an appointment, call 217-357-2173.