We are delighted to announce that the St Mary’s Nutrition clinic will be re-opening in April 2025.
Good nutrition is a cornerstone of health and wellbeing and essential for academic success. St Mary’s Nutrition Clinic aims to empower students and staff to optimise their diet, by providing free, professional nutrition advice.
We can support you with:
- general healthy eating
- nutritional deficiencies
- weight management
- dietary management of high blood pressure and high cholesterol
- sports and exercise nutrition
- infant and child nutrition
- women’s health including pregnancy, breastfeeding and perimenopause/menopause.
If you’d like support with something that’s not listed, please get in touch with us; we may be able to help or signpost other professionals that can help.
Contact: nutrition.clinic@stmarys.ac.uk
Key services
Educational workshops
These are themed, educational and interactive workshops on a specific nutrition topic. For example, nutrition and gut health; nutrition and the menstrual cycle.
Drop-in nutrition clinic
This is a student-led, drop-in clinic, providing one-to-one healthy eating advice. The clinic is supervised by a qualified nutritionist or sports and exercise nutrition professional.
Details of upcoming workshops and drop-in clinics will be added to this page.
Who are we?
St Mary’s Nutrition clinic is led by MSc students on the nutrition programme and supervised by academics from the BSc and MSc nutrition and sports nutrition programmes:
Dr Magali Chohan, PhD, RNutr, FHEA. Senior Lecturer in Nutrition
Kiran Goraya, MSc, RNutr, FHEA. Senior Lecturer in Nutrition
Magali and Kiran are registered nutritionists – qualified nutrition professionals with demonstrable experience of degree-level, evidence-based practice in nutrition.
Both are registrants of the UK Voluntary Register of Nutritionists which is governed by the Association for Nutrition to distinguish nutrition practitioners who meet rigorously applied training, competence and professional practice criteria. Its purpose is to protect the public and assure the credibility of nutrition as a responsible profession.
Jonathan Craven, BExSc(Hons), GDipEd(Sec), PhD. Lecturer in Sport and Exercise Nutrition
Jonathan holds a PhD in the biochemistry of exercise, specialising in glycogen metabolism—the key macronutrient for most sports and exercise endeavours. With a background as an exercise physiologist, he is well-equipped to provide expert advice on fuelling strategies for athletic performance. He is also the course lead for the BSc Sport and Exercise Nutrition programme at St Mary’s University, where he teaches across a diverse range of topics.