Pam Thompson

Alumni Office, Nutritional Sciences

Registered Dietitian and business owner credits FACS for launching career

Major/year graduated

Dietetics and Institutional Management,1975

Current occupation/location

Owner of Instructional Dietetic Associates, Inc. (Vidalia, Ga.), a dietary consulting firm that employs and places RDs in nursing homes, hospitals, dialysis centers, addictive disease centers, Meals on Wheels (Area Agency on Aging), hospice (in and outpatient), migrant children, private business, physician's clinics, etc., and owner and creator of Food Fitness First, Inc. 

What do you love about your current role?

Creating, adding, and learning new tasks.

How did your time at FACS help prepare you for your life or career?:

I am a Registered Dietitian and without my degree at UGA I could not have become a RD.

What advice would you give current students who aspire to a similar career?

If you can think it, you can do it! Attitude is everything!