Marguerite joined the Vergelegen Dietitians Team in 2021. Marguerite is the clinical dietitian for Busamed Paardevlei Private Hospital and also sees patients at the practice.
Marguerite is a passionate dietitian who believes in taking a holistic, patient directed approach. This is enforced with the tertiary qualifications she achieved, namely BSc Human Life Science with Physiology (Cum Laude) (US); BSocScience (Honours) in Psychology (UCT) and BSc Dietetics (Cum Laude) (US).
After graduation, Marguerite completed her community service year at Tygerberg Hospital, working predominantly in oncology and paediatrics. As a registered dietitian, Marguerite has worked as an associated lecturer at the Division of Human Nutrition, Stellenbosch University, where she facilitated undergraduate clinical training as well as lectured several therapeutic nutrition undergraduate topics.
Marguerite specialises in geriatric nutrition, cardiac disease, home tube feeding, and oncology. She also completed a course in Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics, and will be assisting Marlene with genetic test interpretation.
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