2008 Program Preview
Monday, October 27, 2008
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
Adolescent Bariatric Surgery: Implications and Treatment
CPE Level: Level III CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 5080, 5370, 4160
Presenting: Mary Brandt, MD
Susanne Trout, RD, LD, IBCLC, RLC
Discuss the unique issues that influence treatment and care of adolescent weight loss surgery patients. Identify clinical indications, contraindications, risks and benefits of adolescent weight loss surgery. Criteria for adolescent weight loss surgery and unique nutritional considerations will be addressed.
Body Composition: Translating Science into Action
CPE Level: Level II CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 3030, 3010, 3020
Presenting: Steven Heymsfield, MD
Susie Parker-Simmons, MS, RD, MEd
Analyze the practicality, safety and accuracy of body composition methodology including anthropometry, impedance, imaging, body density and isotope dilution methods. Identify the global anthropometric standards established by the International Society for the Advancement of Kinanthropometry. Explain the benefits of adopting internationally accepted techniques for anthropometric assessment.
Planned with Sports, Cardiovascular and Wellness Nutritionists Dietetic Practice Group
Business Dispute and Ethical Misconduct — What’s the Difference?
CPE Level: Level II CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 1000, 1050, 7000
Presenting: Doris Derelian, PhD, JD, RD, FADA
Craig Busey, JD
Using an interactive panel, identify practices that enable dietitians to make decisions that avoid disputes and/or ethical concerns. Evaluate the difference between a business dispute and ethical misconduct while learning key concepts and principles relevant to business arrangements. Discuss how to avoid complications related to contractual agreements.
CADE Forum: Dietetics Education Today and Tomorrow
CPE Level: Level II CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 6000
Review the new 2008 Eligibility Requirements and Accreditation Standards (ERAS) presented by Board Members of the Commission on Accreditation for Dietetics Education. Describe modifications to the CADE ERAS that impact dietetics education programs and curriculum. Discuss timelines for mandatory implementation of the 2008 ERAS.
Child Nutrition Initiatives: Less Talk, More Action
CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 4010, 4150, 6010
Presenting: Lori Stanwood, MBA
Camellia Patey, MS, RD, SNS
Less talk and more action! Exciting new research and pilot initiatives engage youth and families to get the foods they need and more physical activity. Leverage new consumer and pilot study research in minority-targeted educational materials and initiatives. Communicate simple, action-oriented messages to promote the Dietary Guidelines “food groups to encourage” and physical activity. Better understand how to engage children and families at home and at school.
Presented by ADA Partner: National Dairy Council
Competition for Public Health/Community Nutrition Funding: Strategies for Success
CPE Level: Level II CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 4050, 4010, 4020
Presenting: Susan Foerster, MPH, RD
Heidi Blanck, PhD, MS
Identify the population and individual disease risk of poor diet. Interpret local surveillance statistics to determine projections of health benefits. Utilize risk data to communicate the benefits of healthy lifestyle improvements in seeking funding and participation from partners and policymakers.
Planned with Public Health/Community Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group
FNCE Excursion — Plants and People: A Walk through the Morton Arboretum
Enjoy an autumn experience at one of Chicagoland's treasured outdoor spaces. A guided tour will highlight plants significant to the history and folklore of early settlers. Learn historic medicinal purposes for plants and which have the potential to be the next plant-based cure. Learn which plant helped Jamestown settlers survive scurvy, the plant that Dakota Sioux greet with a song each spring, and which were used by the Potowatomi to treat cancer. Lunch and lecture will follow the guided tour.
Session time: 8:00 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
From Addiction to Recovery: The Role of the Dietitian
CPE Level: Level I CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 5350, 4090, 5410
Presenting: Kevin McCauley, MD
Theresa Yosuico Stahl, RD, LDN
Discuss the misconceptions about addictions and the role of the dietitian. Identify the special nutrition needs of recovery. Explore techniques for group nutrition education for patients with addiction.
Planned with Behavioral Health Nutrition Dietetic Practice Group
Making the Scope of Dietetics Practice Framework Work for You
CPE Level: Level I CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 1010, 7100, 1070
Presenting: Patricia Samour, MMSc, RD, LDN
Rita Johnson, PhD, RD, FADA, LDN
Gain practical information on how to garner professional recognition in the workplace and maximize skills using the Scope of Dietetics Practice Framework. Based on real success stories, this unique session will guide members in using valuable resources to gain organizational support for expanding scopes of practice.
New for 2008! — Hot Topics
CPE Credit: 1.5 hours
This year FNCE will feature an exciting new segment of the program devoted to late-breaking news in the field of dietetics. These “Hot Topics” will showcase information such as cutting-edge research, policy and advocacy issues and newsworthy topics. Visit www.eatright.org/fnce2008 after September 17 for topic and speaker details on these must-see sessions.
Original Contributions: Translating Research into Dietetics Practice (Part 2) — Diabetes and Weight Management
CPE Level: Level III CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 5370, 5190, 4040
Development and Accuracy of E-kindex: A Novel Dietary Index and a Self-monitoring Tool That Is Associated with Obesity Status in Children
-Presenting: Chrystalleni Lazarou, MSc
Weight Management Designed for Veterans
-Presenting: Jennifer Elsey, MS, RD, LD
Development of a Web-based Diabetes Self-management Intervention for Use in Private Practice
-Presenting: Linda Brown, MAg, RD, LD/N
Resting Energy Expenditure in Overweight and Obese Adults: Agreement between Indirect Calorimetry and Prediction Formulas
-Presenting: Jane Ziegler, DCN, RD, LDN, CNSD
Change in Eating Habits of College Students and Increased Weighted Discrepancy Score Calculated with the Body-image Ideals Questionnaire
-Presenting: Cynthia Moore, PhD, RD
Improving Maternal Weight Gain and Infant Birth Weight by Implementing the American Dietetic Association’s Nutrition Practice Guidelines for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus across a Continuum of Care
-Presenting: Mary Baun, RD, CDE, LDN
Glycemic Control in Subjects with Impaired Fasting Glucose Can Be Positively Affected by Citrus Extract Supplement: Pilot Clinical Study
-Presenting: Malkanti Evans, PhD
Taking a Closer Look at Practitioner Accountability and Responsibility: Open Discussion
CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 1000, 7090, 7200
Do you work in a practice setting that involves a RD/DTR team? Are you looking for clarification of supervision, roles, and responsibilities? Join your colleagues in an open discussion forum on the implementation and impact of the 2008 Standards of Professional Performance (SOPP) and Standards of Practice (SOP) in Nutrition Care and collaborate on how to utilize these standards.
Planned with ADA Quality Management Committee.
The Science of Organics: Nourishing the Land, Animals and People
CPE Level: Level II CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 8018, 2020, 2080
Presenting: Helen Costello, MS, RD, LD
Charles Benbrook, PhD
Discuss the growing body of research related to the organic production of foods and how it relates to human and environmental health. Gain a deeper understanding of the science behind links between food production systems, agricultural chemical and animal drug use, healthy development among children and preventable diseases during adulthood.
Standardized Parenteral Nutrition: Applications for Dietitians
CPE Level: Level II CPE Credit: 1.5 hours LNC: 5440, 5410, 7100
Presenting: Ainsley Malone, MS, RD, LD, CNSD
Martin Kochevar, MS, RPh, BCNSP
Parenteral nutrition (PN) standardization can potentially improve the safety and efficiency of PN therapy. Apply recommendations developed by a task force of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) for the use of standardized PN.
Planned with the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition