{"id":7048,"date":"2024-10-18T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/?p=7048"},"modified":"2024-10-16T16:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T21:49:05","slug":"welcome-new-faculty-rachel-lietka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/2024\/10\/18\/welcome-new-faculty-rachel-lietka\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome new faculty: Rachel Lietka"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Rachel Lietka, MMN, RDN, LMNT, CNSC, is a new assistant professor in our medical nutrition program in Kearney. Here&#8217;s more about Rachel in her own words:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was born and raised in McCook, Nebraska. I began my undergraduate journey at UNK but transferred when I discovered there was no dietetics program at the time. I completed my degree at Kansas State (EMAW!) before returning to Nebraska for my dietetic internship at UNMC in 2017. I graduated with my master\u2019s in 2019 and worked at Nebraska Medicine for a few years before deciding to move closer to family. My husband and I relocated to Kearney, where I worked at the Central Nebraska Veterans Home and, more recently, at Kearney Regional Medical Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019ve had the privilege of serving as a preceptor for dietetic interns at both Nebraska Medicine and Kearney Regional. Mentoring future dietitians has always been a passion of mine, and when the chance arose to contribute to both the profession and rural Nebraska, I was thrilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I\u2019m not on campus or working at KRMC, I enjoy spending time with my husband and our two boys. We love all things outdoors and probably spend too much time at Cabela\u2019s and Tractor Supply. I also love reading (currently reading Good Inside), baking sourdough bread, listening to Forrest Frank, and working out!<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Lietka, MMN, RDN, LMNT, CNSC, is a new assistant professor in our medical nutrition program in Kearney. Here&#8217;s more about Rachel in her own words: I was born and raised in McCook, Nebraska. I began my undergraduate journey at UNK but transferred when I discovered there was no dietetics program at the time. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":109,"featured_media":7049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/109"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7051,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7048\/revisions\/7051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alliedhealth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}