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February 2015 People & Events
FROM THE ACADEMY People & Events
ACADEMY CALENDAR 2015 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo October 3-6, 2015 Nashville, TN Tell Us Your Issue . . . We care about the concerns of Academy members and want to hear from you. There are four easy ways to submit your issues: E-mail [email protected]. Fax 312/899-4790. Phone 800/877-1600 ext 5000. Contact your delegate You will receive immediate confirmation that your message has been received and action will be taken within 2 months. For more information, visit the Academy’s member home page and click on Member Issues or visit www.eatright.org/issues. Deadline for submitting material for the People & Events section is the first of the month, 3 months before the date of the issue (eg, May 1 for the August issue). Publication of an educational event is not an endorsement by the Academy of the event or sponsor. Send material to: Ryan Baechler, Editor, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 120 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606; journal@eatright. org; 312/899-0040, ext. 4829; or fax, 312/899-4790.
ANNOUNCEMENTS Latest ACEND Accreditation Decisions Published Online The Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) is the Academy’s accrediting agency for education programs preparing students for careers as Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and Dietetic Technicians, Registered. ACEND establishes and enforces accreditation standards that ensure the quality and continued
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improvement of nutrition and dietetics education programs. The accreditation decisions made at the most recent ACEND meeting are available at http:// www.eatright.org/ACEND/content.aspx ?id¼7829 and include the status of programs that have received candidacy for accreditation, full accreditation, probationary accreditation, and withdrawal from accreditation.
ACEND Invites Program Accreditation Input Accredited dietetics education programs are periodically reviewed to ensure they uphold the standards set forth by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND). Part of the program review process is the consideration of thirdparty input on a program’s practices, procedures, and educational outcomes. Members with concern as to a program’s compliance with the standards are encouraged to forward their comments to ACEND. A list of programs under review for candidacy or full accreditation and a corresponding site visit scheduled is available at http://www.eatright.org/ ACEND/content.aspx?id¼7974. The Accreditation Standards are located at www.eatright.org/acend. Any comments on substantive matters related to the quality of any of these educational programs must be sent 30 days prior to the program’s scheduled site visit or by the designated review date to: The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, ATTN: Mary Ann Taccona, MBA, RD, 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES 2015 Food and Culinary Professionals DPG Culinary Workshop March 5-7, 2015, Embassy Suites and Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Napa, CA. “The New Food Culture: Aligning New Dietary Guidelines with Traditional Culinary Practices.” Programming on Thursday and Friday will
be at the Embassy Suites and on Saturday at the CIA in St Helena. Optional tours and dinners will be offered as well. Program agenda and registration information is available on www. foodculinaryprofs.org.
Clinical Nutrition Management DPG Symposium April 11-14, 2015, The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle, WA. With the health care environment rapidly changing, those in clinical nutrition management are seeking to increase clinical quality and patient satisfaction within the confines of limited resources—making the contribution of each team member even more crucial. Using transformational leadership techniques, today’s clinical nutrition leaders can learn to enhance the motivation, morale, and performance of the team by connecting the team to organizational goals and leveraging the varied strengths of the members. Please join us in Seattle for the 2015 Clinical Nutrition Management Dietetic Practice Group Symposium: Transforming Leaders, and earn up to 20 CPEUs for attending sessions and an additional 2 for exhibits—plus the opportunity to network with your peers from across the country. Registration will open in January 2015. See www. cnmdpg.org for updates.
Wisconsin Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2015 Annual Conference April 15-17, 2015, Osthoff Resort, Elkhart Lake, WI. The Wisconsin Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics invites you to join them for the opportunity to earn 22 CPEUs in a variety of educational sessions at their 80th Annual Conference. Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics President-Elect Evelyn F. Crayton, EdD, RDN, LDN, will be presenting on multiple days. Attendees will also have the opportunity to talk directly with Dr Crayton at the expo. For more information please visit eatrightwisc.org, or contact (920) 5605619 or [email protected] with questions.
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FROM THE ACADEMY 2015 Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition DPG Symposium May 1-3, 2015, Colorado Springs, CO. Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition (SCAN) would like to invite you to attend the 31st Annual SCAN Symposium. This year’s theme, “Nutritional Dogma vs Data,” will focus on cutting-edge presentations featuring nationally recognized speakers exploring, challenging, and debating the recent paradigm shifts in sports nutrition, cardiovascular health, wellness, and eating disorders. Learn more at www.scandpg.org.
2015 Dietitians in Nutrition Support Symposium June 12-13, 2015, Embassy Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD. Update your practice with the newest information on protein requirements, new critical care guidelines, malnutrition, and enteral and parenteral nutrition. Engage in comprehensive Nutrition Focused Skills Lab opportunities to improve proficiency in assessing lean body mass, micro- and macronutrient status; abdominal and edema abnormalities; and functional status. Attend breakout sessions on pediatric malnutrition; fluid and electrolytes; parenteral nutrition; enteral nutrient delivery methods; anemia; fermentable, oligo-, di-, monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAP); probiotics; outcomes research; and more. In addition to 15 CEUs, enjoy networking with key nutrition support leaders, peers, and future colleagues during a wine and cheese poster
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session and conference planning. For more information contact Gail Cresci at [email protected] or Sandy Austhof at [email protected] and visit www. dnsdpg.org.
Free Professional Development Resources for Academy Members Select from a variety of eight free and member-preferred priced resources to best fit your professional development needs with Distance Learning at your own pace and convenience. The Center for Professional Development also offers a number of online certificate of training programs and webinars as well as group and self-study options. Visit http://www.eatright.org/cpd/ online/.
ABOUT PEOPLE Obituary Martha Frances Hoffman, MPH, RD, September 2014, was a member of the Academy for more than 50 years. She graduated from North Texas State College (now the University of North Texas) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics and served a 1-year dietetic internship at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women’s Hospital) in Boston, MA, before beginning her career as a dietitian at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, TX. Hoffman received an MPH degree from the University of California School of Public Health in Berkeley, CA, in 1965, and went on to work in public health for 31 years. Her career included positions as a public health nutrition consultant at the Cancer and
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Heart Division of the Texas State Department of Health in Austin, the University of Texas SW Medical School/City of Dallas Children and Youth, and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in Jacksonville and Tallahassee. She also held offices in district dietetic associations in Texas and Florida and served as a delegate to the Academy. James L. Surratt, RD, September 2014, was a retired chief dietitian at the Veterans Administration Hospital, East Orange and Lyons, NJ. Virginia F. Harger, MS, RD, October 2014, was a Life member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Harger earned a bachelor’s degree in Dietetics and Food Service Management from Washington State College (now University) and a master’s degree from Kansas State University. She began her teaching career at Ohio University and Stanford University before joining the US Army to serve as a hospital dietitian during World War II. After the war, Harger returned to teaching at Ohio State University from 1948-1967, and served as head of the Department of Foodservice Systems Management at Oregon State University from 1967 until her retirement in 1978. During her career, she co-authored the college textbook Introduction to Foodservice Management and served as an elected officer and member of the Board of Directors of the American Dietetic Association. The Virginia F. Harger Scholarship Fund was established in her honor. Mary L. Brogden, RD, October 2014, was a graduate of Auburn University and a member of the West Florida and Mobile Dietetic Associations.
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ACADEMY CALENDAR 2015 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo October 3-6, 2015 Nashville, TN Tell Us Your Issue . . . We care about the concerns of Academy members and want to hear from you. There are four easy ways to submit your issues: E-mail [email protected]. Fax 312/899-4790. Phone 800/877-1600 ext 5000. Contact your delegate You will receive immediate confirmation that your message has been received and action will be taken within 2 months. For more information, visit the Academy’s member home page and click on Member Issues or visit www.eatright.org/issues. Deadline for submitting material for the People & Events section is the first of the month, 3 months before the date of the issue (eg, May 1 for the August issue). Publication of an educational event is not an endorsement by the Academy of the event or sponsor. Send material to: Ryan Baechler, Editor, Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, 120 S. Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606; journal@eatright. org; 312/899-0040, ext. 4829; or fax, 312/899-4790.
ANNOUNCEMENTS Latest ACEND Accreditation Decisions Published Online The Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND) is the Academy’s accrediting agency for education programs preparing students for careers as Registered Dietitian Nutritionists and Dietetic Technicians, Registered. ACEND establishes and enforces accreditation standards that ensure the quality and continued
ª 2015 by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
improvement of nutrition and dietetics education programs. The accreditation decisions made at the most recent ACEND meeting are available at http:// www.eatright.org/ACEND/content.aspx ?id¼7829 and include the status of programs that have received candidacy for accreditation, full accreditation, probationary accreditation, and withdrawal from accreditation.
ACEND Invites Program Accreditation Input Accredited dietetics education programs are periodically reviewed to ensure they uphold the standards set forth by the Accreditation Council for Education in Nutrition and Dietetics (ACEND). Part of the program review process is the consideration of thirdparty input on a program’s practices, procedures, and educational outcomes. Members with concern as to a program’s compliance with the standards are encouraged to forward their comments to ACEND. A list of programs under review for candidacy or full accreditation and a corresponding site visit scheduled is available at http://www.eatright.org/ ACEND/content.aspx?id¼7974. The Accreditation Standards are located at www.eatright.org/acend. Any comments on substantive matters related to the quality of any of these educational programs must be sent 30 days prior to the program’s scheduled site visit or by the designated review date to: The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, ATTN: Mary Ann Taccona, MBA, RD, 120 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 2000, Chicago, IL 60606.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES 2015 Food and Culinary Professionals DPG Culinary Workshop March 5-7, 2015, Embassy Suites and Culinary Institute of America (CIA), Napa, CA. “The New Food Culture: Aligning New Dietary Guidelines with Traditional Culinary Practices.” Programming on Thursday and Friday will
be at the Embassy Suites and on Saturday at the CIA in St Helena. Optional tours and dinners will be offered as well. Program agenda and registration information is available on www. foodculinaryprofs.org.
Clinical Nutrition Management DPG Symposium April 11-14, 2015, The Fairmont Olympic Hotel, Seattle, WA. With the health care environment rapidly changing, those in clinical nutrition management are seeking to increase clinical quality and patient satisfaction within the confines of limited resources—making the contribution of each team member even more crucial. Using transformational leadership techniques, today’s clinical nutrition leaders can learn to enhance the motivation, morale, and performance of the team by connecting the team to organizational goals and leveraging the varied strengths of the members. Please join us in Seattle for the 2015 Clinical Nutrition Management Dietetic Practice Group Symposium: Transforming Leaders, and earn up to 20 CPEUs for attending sessions and an additional 2 for exhibits—plus the opportunity to network with your peers from across the country. Registration will open in January 2015. See www. cnmdpg.org for updates.
Wisconsin Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics 2015 Annual Conference April 15-17, 2015, Osthoff Resort, Elkhart Lake, WI. The Wisconsin Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics invites you to join them for the opportunity to earn 22 CPEUs in a variety of educational sessions at their 80th Annual Conference. Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics President-Elect Evelyn F. Crayton, EdD, RDN, LDN, will be presenting on multiple days. Attendees will also have the opportunity to talk directly with Dr Crayton at the expo. For more information please visit eatrightwisc.org, or contact (920) 5605619 or [email protected] with questions.
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FROM THE ACADEMY 2015 Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition DPG Symposium May 1-3, 2015, Colorado Springs, CO. Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition (SCAN) would like to invite you to attend the 31st Annual SCAN Symposium. This year’s theme, “Nutritional Dogma vs Data,” will focus on cutting-edge presentations featuring nationally recognized speakers exploring, challenging, and debating the recent paradigm shifts in sports nutrition, cardiovascular health, wellness, and eating disorders. Learn more at www.scandpg.org.
2015 Dietitians in Nutrition Support Symposium June 12-13, 2015, Embassy Suites Baltimore Inner Harbor, Baltimore, MD. Update your practice with the newest information on protein requirements, new critical care guidelines, malnutrition, and enteral and parenteral nutrition. Engage in comprehensive Nutrition Focused Skills Lab opportunities to improve proficiency in assessing lean body mass, micro- and macronutrient status; abdominal and edema abnormalities; and functional status. Attend breakout sessions on pediatric malnutrition; fluid and electrolytes; parenteral nutrition; enteral nutrient delivery methods; anemia; fermentable, oligo-, di-, monosaccharides and polyols (FODMAP); probiotics; outcomes research; and more. In addition to 15 CEUs, enjoy networking with key nutrition support leaders, peers, and future colleagues during a wine and cheese poster
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session and conference planning. For more information contact Gail Cresci at [email protected] or Sandy Austhof at [email protected] and visit www. dnsdpg.org.
Free Professional Development Resources for Academy Members Select from a variety of eight free and member-preferred priced resources to best fit your professional development needs with Distance Learning at your own pace and convenience. The Center for Professional Development also offers a number of online certificate of training programs and webinars as well as group and self-study options. Visit http://www.eatright.org/cpd/ online/.
ABOUT PEOPLE Obituary Martha Frances Hoffman, MPH, RD, September 2014, was a member of the Academy for more than 50 years. She graduated from North Texas State College (now the University of North Texas) with a Bachelor of Science degree in Home Economics and served a 1-year dietetic internship at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigham and Women’s Hospital) in Boston, MA, before beginning her career as a dietitian at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, TX. Hoffman received an MPH degree from the University of California School of Public Health in Berkeley, CA, in 1965, and went on to work in public health for 31 years. Her career included positions as a public health nutrition consultant at the Cancer and
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Heart Division of the Texas State Department of Health in Austin, the University of Texas SW Medical School/City of Dallas Children and Youth, and the Florida Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in Jacksonville and Tallahassee. She also held offices in district dietetic associations in Texas and Florida and served as a delegate to the Academy. James L. Surratt, RD, September 2014, was a retired chief dietitian at the Veterans Administration Hospital, East Orange and Lyons, NJ. Virginia F. Harger, MS, RD, October 2014, was a Life member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Harger earned a bachelor’s degree in Dietetics and Food Service Management from Washington State College (now University) and a master’s degree from Kansas State University. She began her teaching career at Ohio University and Stanford University before joining the US Army to serve as a hospital dietitian during World War II. After the war, Harger returned to teaching at Ohio State University from 1948-1967, and served as head of the Department of Foodservice Systems Management at Oregon State University from 1967 until her retirement in 1978. During her career, she co-authored the college textbook Introduction to Foodservice Management and served as an elected officer and member of the Board of Directors of the American Dietetic Association. The Virginia F. Harger Scholarship Fund was established in her honor. Mary L. Brogden, RD, October 2014, was a graduate of Auburn University and a member of the West Florida and Mobile Dietetic Associations.
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