07/30/99 Summerville Dietitian Named National Spokesperson for American Dietetic Association

Summerville Dietitian Named National Spokesperson for American Dietetic Association

Press Release

July 30, 1999

Contact: Tom Ryan or Doris Acosta
E-mail: media@eatright.org
(Please do not publish/broadcast contact information)CHICAGO -- Registered dietitian Jeannette F. Jordan, a resident of Summerville, S.C., has been named a media spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association, the nation's largest organization of food and nutrition professionals.

Jordan joins ADA's national, volunteer network of 29 experts who communicate the importance of sound nutrition to the public. Jordan will serve as national spokesperson on issues of particular concern to African-American consumers. Headquartered in Chicago, the 70,000-member ADA serves the public by promoting optimal health, nutrition and well-being. Its media spokesperson program began in 1982.

During her three-year term as an ADA spokesperson, Jordan will provide expert commentary for print and broadcast news stories on health and nutrition topics, as well as ADA's official positions, educational campaigns and public policy initiatives.

Jordan's areas of expertise include diabetes education, weight management, cancer prevention education, cardiac nutrition and renal nutrition. She is a graduate of South Carolina State University where she earned a bachelor's degree in food and nutrition and a master's degree in nutritional science.

Jordan is the prevention/detection education coordinator at the Medical University of South Carolina, Hollings Cancer Center, and program manager for the statewide African Methodist Episcopal Church Cancer Prevention Education Program. Jordan lectures on nutrition issues to cooperations and organizations and manages a statewide health education speaker's bureau. She is also a certified diabetes educator and preceptor to dietetic interns at the Medical University of South Carolina.

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