Who's behind the Vault.
I'm Valpre Huisamen, a registered dietitian and the founder of The Dietitian's Vault.
I qualified with a B.Diet from the University of Pretoria, and over the years that followed I completed postgraduate online courses in fertility and pregnancy nutrition, IBS and gut health, the areas patients ask me about most. Most recently I completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Obesity and Weight Management through the University of South Wales, which I passed cum laude.
My background is clinical and hands-on. Over more than a decade I have worked in critical-care and ICU nutrition, oncology, and diabetes and metabolic disease, caring for patients at the bedside in hospital and in outpatient consultations. Today I lead a practice of four registered dietitians, and that daily clinical work is the testing ground for everything the Vault publishes.
A good deal of my work also happens beyond the consulting room. I was invited to write a peer-reviewed CPD article on sarcopenia in primary care for South African Family Practice, the journal of the South African Academy of Family Physicians. I speak regularly at professional events, and I teach both the public and referring doctors on newer areas of practice, including the GLP-1 medications, on radio and in clinical talks.
I built the Vault for the version of myself who used to go hunting for a decent handout on a busy Friday, with a full waiting room and no time to spare. So much of the material we rely on is scattered or out of date, and pulling it together properly is time most of us simply do not have. So we built it once, carefully, and keep it current. Every volume follows the same editorial process: the research is synthesised, the clinical content is reviewed against current international guidelines, and each recommendation is checked against the peer-reviewed literature before it is published.
I made a deliberate choice not to build this around myself. Good clinical guidance should stand on its evidence, not on the person presenting it, so I let the work speak first. My name sits here quietly for one reason: so you know there is a real, practising dietitian behind every page who stands behind what it says.