Worldwide Who's Who Names Catherine M. Angotti Professional of the Year in Health Care

    WASHINGTON, D.C., August 15, 2013 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Catherine M. Angotti, RD, who until just recently served as the Administrative Deputy to the Chief Health and Medical Officer and Director of Occupational Health of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and is now designated as NASA's Senior Advisor on Occupational Health, has been named a Worldwide Who's Who Professional of the Year in Health Care. While inclusion in Worldwide Who's Who is an honor, only a small selection of members in each discipline are chosen for this distinction. These special honorees are distinguished based on their professional accomplishments, academic achievements, leadership abilities, years of service, and the credentials they have provided in association with their Worldwide Who's Who membership.

Ms. Angotti has gained a considerable amount professional experience throughout her career, with 12 years of experience as an administrative deputy to the chief health and medical officer and director of occupational health of NASA. Over the years, she has established herself as an expert in cardiovascular risk reduction, as well as nutrition education and awareness programs to assist employees in controlling risk factors associated with diseases such as diabetes, obesity and lipid disorders. In the course of her duties, she is responsible for overseeing health programs for professionals and writing policies.

In July 2012, Ms. Angotti was invited to the Samueli Institute in Washington, D.C., where she was asked to be part of a Think Tank exploring the science of healing in health care preventative talks. She believes that instead of it being called Preventative Health Care, it should be renamed Healing Health Care. Ms. Angotti started her career as a therapeutic, clinical registered dietitian at The Fairfax Hospital in 1969. She left hospital work to open her own nutrition consulting firm. In 1974, she became the first registered dietitian to successfully open and sustain a private practice. Additionally, she is the first female to hold the title of NASA, Director of Occupational Health and longer than any of her predecessors.

Ms. Angotti has written policies to put programs in place, to provide occupational and preventive health services to maintain and improve the health of NASA employees with a focus on the surveillance and prevention, diagnosis, treatment and care of illness and injuries caused or aggravated by the work environment. She attributes her success to passion for her job, having become involved in her profession because she was interested in chemistry and nutrition and started working in hospital clinical dietetics. Ms. Angotti received a Bachelor of Science in clinical nutrition from James Madison University, later completing her dietetic internship at the Medical College of Virginia. She is a former president of both the local District Dietetic Association and the Virginia Dietetic Association, and she has served as a State Delegate to the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, which was formerly known as the American Dietetic Association. In years to come, Ms. Angotti intends to continue to be an advocate for elder care.

Visit http://www.linkedin.com/pub/catherine-angotti/13/71a/237 for more information about Ms. Angotti

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