Janeen Beard

A Warren County health-care provider has been invited to serve on a national whole-food, plant-based nutrition medical advisory board.

Certified Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP-C) Janeen Beard, who is a founder and owner of Lander Hope Clinic, was invited to join the T. Colin Campbell Center for Nutrition Studies Medical Advisory Board. “Because of your outstanding and dedicated career in health and its association to whole food plant-based nutrition, I would like to invite you to join our CNS Medical Advisory Board,” Campbell said in a letter of invitation to Beard.

“I was so incredibly honored and humbled to receive this invitation,” Beard said. “To be invited to sit with such a distinguished group of nutritionally and scientifically focused pioneers is beyond anything I could ever have envisioned when I began this journey so many years ago.”

The board meets three times per year and its members are expected to be active participants, contributing in the areas of presentations – seminars, panels, and discussion boards; writing for the newsletter; preparing media releases on nutrition and health topics; helping to develop curriculum for educational programming, and others.

“The purpose of this Board is to advance the high standards of evidence-based nutrition,” according to the letter. “As you know, there are countless champions of whole food, plant-based nutrition working in health care, research, and education and by providing a board platform for sharing these experiences and expertise, we hope to better promote optimal nutrition, through education, advocacy, and research.”

“It’s with great enthusiasm that I welcome the opportunity to join this group and truly hope that I can contribute to its growth and mission,” Beard said.