Tuesday Sessions by Track
Career Opportunities and Executive Skill Enhancement
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
- Female Athlete Triad and Body Composition Issues in Collegiate Sports
- Specialty Practice in Oncology Nutrition: Open Discussion
9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
- Nutrition Support Practice — Advancing Your Skill Set: Open Discussion
- Succession Planning: Developing Tomorrow's Leaders Today
Cultural Competence for Today’s Diverse World
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
- Multicultural Encounters: A Quest for Cultural Competence
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
- New Approaches to Equitable Practice: Bridging the Global Divide
2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
- Closing Session: National Geographic Reports: A Global Perspective
Disease Management
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
- It Takes a Team: Targeting Patient and Provider Education to Improve Anticoagulation Safety
- Nutritional Challenges of Absorption in Gastrointestinal Surgical Patients
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
- The World of Hydration: An Evidenced-based Evaluation
- Thinking Outside the Bones: Prevalence and Treatment of Vitamin D Deficiency
Effective Communication and Counseling
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
- From Data Table to Dinner Table: Nutrition Communications for Consumers
9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
- Putting "Participatory" into Your Practice
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
- Serious Fun: Video Games for Dietary Change
- Update on Appetite and Satiety: Helping Clients Say “When”
Food First – Facts, Trends and Chemistry
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
- The Organics Debate: Is the Premium Worth it?
9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
- Eating More Beans, Nuts and Seeds: From Science to Guidance
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
- Countering Food and Nutrition Myths with Evidence-based Research
Lifecycle Nutrition
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
- Sodium Intake and Children: The Emerging Science
9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
- Hormonal Help: Functional Foods for Women of Reproductive Age
Professional Responsibility for an Effective Nutrition Environment
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
- Emergency Preparedness and Pandemic Influenza: Personal and Professional Roles
9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
- Differentiating between Nutrition Diagnosis and Medical Diagnosis
- Incorporating Research into Dietetic Students' Education
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
- The Year is 2038: Is Your Kitchen Geared for the Future?
- Nutrition Informatics 2.0: Open Discussion
Public Health/Community Nutrition, Wellness and Prevention
8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
- Using New Online Resources to Estimate Dietary Supplement Intake
- FoodSmart and Fit: An Obesity Intervention for Young Women
9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
- Success Stories: Creating a Healthy Nutrition Environment in Schools
Research
8:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
- Snapshots of ADA/ADAF Research (Part 1)
9:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
- Frontiers in Dietetics: Gene-Environment Interactions and Metabolism in Obesity and Type 2 Diabetes (Part 2)
9:45 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
- Reducing Healthcare Costs through Chronic Disease Self-management
12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
- Dietary Fructose in Obesity and Hepatic Disease: Culprit or Scapegoat?








