Carol Meerschaert, MBA, RD
Carol M. Meerschaert, MBA, RD (pronounced “mer-shart”), is the Director of Marketing and Communications for the Healthcare Businesswomen’s Association, an association with over 6,000 members across 15 chapters in the US and Europe. She is the editor-in-chief of the HBAdvantage, the magazine of the HBA. She serves on the editorial advisory board for Today’s Dietitian magazine.
Carol earned her BS degree in nutrition and dietetics from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. She earned an MBA in marketing from the University of Southern Maine School of Business. She also has a Certificate in Leadership from the American Dietetic Association.
Prior to her move into marketing Carol worked as a nutrition consultant and Registered Dietitian in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Maine. Carol has been quoted on nutrition matters on television on CNN and in newspapers including The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of the CD ROM Eat Your Herbs (Food and Health Communications 1998); cookbook Good News About Good Food and the WINE- Well-informed Nutrition Educator handouts on supplements and herbs. She is the co-author of Integrative Medicine: Your Quick Reference Guide (Integrative Medicine, Inc. 1997) and co-author of the continuing professional education course Minerals from Plant Foods (American Dietetic Association 2002). She was also honored with the Recognized Young Dietitian of the Year Award (1996) and the Outstanding Nutrition Entrepreneur Award (1996). Carol has delivered continuing education lectures for a variety of professionals in 22 states.