Sunday Sessions by Track

Sunday Sessions by Track

Career Opportunities and Executive Skill Enhancement

8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

  • Live Like You Mean It: The Experience
  • Using Information Technology: Revealing Expert Knowledge from Clinical Nutrition Practice

10:30 a.m. to Noon

  • Specialty Practice in Sports Dietetics: Open Discussion 
  • From Practitioner to Manager: Developing Your Leadership Profile

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

  • Billing and Coding 101: Tips for Successful Billing
  • 2009 FNCE Educational Sessions: Open Discussion

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

  • Nutrition Order Writing: How to Obtain Clinical Privileges, Perform and Measure Outcomes
  • Boost Your Diabetes Career by Providing Optimal Quality Care and Services: Open Discussion

Cultural Competence for Today's Diverse World

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

  • Hispanic Health: Mitos y Hechos

Disease Management

8:30 am. to 10:00 a.m.

  • Application of the New Nutrition Support Standards for Dietitians

10:30 a.m. to Noon

  • ADA's Hypertension Guidelines: Strategies for Implementation
  • Nutritional Management of HIV and Hepatitis C

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

  • Optimizing Muscle Metabolism to Enhance Health
  • Nutritional Management of the Patient with Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) and Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

  • Building the Dietitian's Physical Assessment Skill Set

Effective Communication and Counseling

8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

  • Counseling Overweight Adults: New Directions in Personalized Care

10:30 a.m. to Noon

  • Family-centered Care and Nutrition: Who Is in Charge?

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

  • Lost in Translation: Communicating Complex Diet and Health Relationships in a Sound-bite Hungry World

Food First — Facts, Trends and Chemistry

8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

  • Nutrition and You: Trends 2008
  • Celiac Disease: From Laboratory Bench to Kitchen Counter

10:30 a.m. to Noon

  • Check, Please!

1:30 p.m to 3:00 p.m.

  • Celebrating Culinary Trends to Meet Consumer Taste and Nutritional Needs

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

  • Simplicity at Point-of-Purchase: Helping Consumers Meet the Nutrient-Density Challenge

Lifecycle Nutrition

8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

  • End-of-Life Decisions and Ethics: The Impact on Nutritional Care
  • Feeding the Very Low Birth Weight Infant: Strategies for Improved Outcome

10:30 a.m. to Noon

  • Aging Boomers: Is Muscle Loss the Silent Epidemic?

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

  • Nutritional Impact in Anemia Management of the Elderly

Professional Responsibility for an Effective Nutrition Environment

8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

  • Preparing for Future Practice and Education — What Will Happen Next: Open Discussion
  • A New Paradigm for the Study and Practice of Nutrition
  • The Green Diet: Sustainability Becomes a Key Ingredient in Consumers’ Eating Habits

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

  • 2008 Presidents’ Lecture: Online Personalized Health Care — Food for Health
  • Professional Development Portfolio: Introduction
  • Dietitians Know Best: What We Told the FDA

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

  • CDR Forum: 2007 Levels of Practice Study
  • Food or Fuel: The Economic Facts

Public Health/Community Nutrition, Wellness and Prevention

8:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.

  • Community/Service-based Learning: Engaging Dietetics Students and Agencies

10:30 a.m. to Noon

  • Food Access and Community Partnerships: Steps to Reducing Health Disparities
  • Healthy Kitchens, Healthy Lives: A Groundbreaking Nutrition Research and Education Initiative

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

  • Jumping Jacks with Jill: Nutrition Education through Entertainment
  • The Choline Gap: A Public Health Issue Among Special Populations

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

  • Healthy Schools Partnership: Shrinking Childhood Obesity and Expanding Career Opportunities for Dietitians
  • Translating Nutrition and Physical Activity Research into Community-based Programs for  Bone Health
  • Changing the Face of Nutrition Education in California WIC

Research

10:30 a.m. to Noon

  • Phytochemicals and Cancer Prevention: Translating Evidence for Future Practice
  • Weight Management: Application of the Latest Research to Dietetic Practice

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

  • Can Nutrition Affect the Mind? Cognitive, Behavioral, Mood and Focus Benefits