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- From Palpation to Blood Pressure: Elevate Your Exam Skills for Nutrition-Focused Care
- Telling the Story so It Matters: Why and How to Communicate and Disseminate Nutrition Science
- Leveling Up: Bridging Quality, Interoperability and Terminology Through the Malnutrition Composite Score
- Show Me the Money: Writing Your NIH Application in a New Era of Change
From Palpation to Blood Pressure: Elevate Your Exam Skills for Nutrition-Focused Care
Date: Saturday, October 11
Time: 9:30 a.m. – 1 p.m.
CPEU 3.5
Member Price: $195 | Non-member Price: $225
Description: Step into this high-impact, hands-on workshop designed to sharpen your nutrition-focused assessment skills and boost your confidence at the bedside and beyond. Rotate through interactive stations where you’ll palpate abdomens, review abdominal and chest x-rays, perform swallow screens, and measure blood pressure and blood glucose, all guided by expert RDNs and practicing clinicians.
You'll also observe a demonstration of a small-bore feeding tube placement and learn how to launch an RDN-led feeding tube program at your facility. Whether you practice in outpatient, inpatient, or critical care settings, this workshop delivers techniques you can use immediately to improve nutrition assessments and patient outcomes.
Don't miss this chance to expand your clinical toolbox, learn from the best, and take your practice to the next level!
Learning Objectives
- Conduct a swallow screening to assess the risk of dysphagia and determine the need for a speech-language pathology referral.
- Demonstrate ability to measure blood pressure and blood glucose levels.
- Perform the palpation technique for abdominal exam.
- Identify normal and abnormal findings in abdominal and chest x-rays (i.e. location of the feeding tube, ileus, aspiration pneumonia).
- Describe placement of small-bore feeding tube and understanding of implementing RDN lead feeding tube placements.
Target Audience
- Registered Dietitian Nutritionists looking to enhance their expertise and acquire advanced-level techniques in clinical nutrition.
- Educators aiming to expand their knowledge and elevate their teaching and clinical practice skills.
- Students/Interns eager to gain hands-on experience and deepen their understanding of advanced clinical nutrition practices.
Telling the Story so it Matters: Why and How to Communicate and Disseminate Nutrition Science
Date: Saturday, October 11
Time: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
CPEU: 3.0
Member Price: $125 | Non-member Price: $155
Description: Effective communication and dissemination of nutrition research are essential to advancing evidence-based dietetics practice. This interactive workshop will explore strategies, barriers, and opportunities for translating complex nutrition science into clear, actionable messages.
Presenters, drawing from their experiences as researchers, fellows, and science communicators, will share tips for tailoring content to diverse audiences and avoiding common pitfalls. Attendees will engage in small group case studies and hands-on exercises to practice crafting and sharing science-based messages within their own practice areas.
Participants will leave with practical tools and strategies to make nutrition research more accessible, understandable, and impactful.
Supported through a partnership of the International Food Information Council and Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation.
Learning Objectives
- Identify barriers to effective nutrition research communication, and apply strategies like plain language and AI-based tools to make scientific information more accessible to varied audiences.
- Develop tailored communication strategies for disseminating nutrition science to support evidence-based dietetics practice in diverse settings.
- Create clear, responsible, science-based messages to enhance understanding and integration of nutrition research into dietetics practice and patient care.
Workshop Facilitators
- Lead Facilitator: Sherry M. Coleman Collins, MS, RDN, LD, FAND – Fellow, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation
- Lead Facilitator: Matthew J. Landry, PhD, RDN, DipACLM, FAND, FAHA – Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine
- Co-Facilitator: Mary Rozga, PhD, RDN – Food and Nutrition Evaluation Project Manager, Altarum
- Co-Facilitator: Wendy Reinhardt Kapsak, MS, RDN – President & CEO, International Food Information Council (IFIC)
Target Audience
- Mid-level practitioners with 6–14 years of experience.
- Scientists and academics interested in making their work more accessible and engaging.
- Science communicators seeking a deeper understanding of research.
- Individuals who regularly translate scientific content for general audiences and want to build a stronger foundation in evaluating and interpreting research findings accurately.
- Professionals dedicated to accurately representing science in their work.
Leveling Up: Bridging Quality, Interoperability, and Terminology Through the Malnutrition Composite Score
Date: Saturday, October 11
Time: 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
CPEU: 3.0
Member Price: $99 | Non-member Price: $130
Description: The Malnutrition Care Score (formerly known as the Global Malnutrition Composite Score, GMCS), is the first nutrition-focused electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) providing a unique opportunity for credentialed nutrition and dietetics practitioners to demonstrate their value by leveraging skills and experiences in quality management, interoperability, and terminology utilizing the Nutrition Care Process/Terminology (NCP/T).
This workshop will explore the critical interplay between quality management, interoperability and standardized terminology in delivering effective nutrition interventions while providing best practices and case studies to support the understanding and implementation of the theory. Additionally, this workshop offers a unique opportunity to connect with experts in the field and gain practical tools to implement these concepts in practice. By the end of the workshop, you'll be equipped to drive improvements in malnutrition care, ensuring that patients receive the comprehensive and coordinated support they need.
Learning Objectives
- Explain how the MCS framework can be applied to improve malnutrition care outcomes across healthcare settings.
- Identify and define key standardized terms used in malnutrition care and describe how these terms relate to value sets that support interoperability, reduce errors, and enhance collaboration.
- Describe at least two ways that seamless data exchange and interoperability can improve communication and coordination of malnutrition care across healthcare systems.
Workshop Facilitators
- Lead Facilitator: Tamaire Ojeda, MHSA, RDN, LD – Director of Quality Initiatives and Improvement, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Co-Facilitator: Rebecca Niitzel, MS, RDN, CDN, LD – Senior Manager, Quality and Terminology, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Co-Facilitator: Angela Lago MS, RDN, LDN, FAND – Senior Director, Quality, Standards & Interoperability, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
- Co-Facilitator: Michelle Ashafa, RD, LDN, PMP, CSM – Director, Quality Measurement and Interoperability, Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
Target Audience
- Mid-level practitioners with 6–14 years of experience.
- Interested in understanding malnutrition and its diagnosis.
- Seeking to increase reimbursement for malnutrition-related care.
- Interest in improving documentation and processes.
- Familiar with MCS (Malnutrition Clinical Standards) implementation.
Show Me the Money: Writing Your NIH Application in a New Era of Change
Date: Sunday, October 12
Time: 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
CPEU: 2.0
Member Price: $30 | Non-member Price: $60
Description: Are you prepared for the new NIH changes effective January 25, 2025? Did you know that 75% of biomedical researchers and clinicians face challenges when developing research proposals? You don’t have to be one of them.
Join an NIH Program Official and a Scientific Review Officer as they guide you through the latest changes and share practical tips to strengthen your proposals and improve funding success.
This interactive workshop includes a hands-on activity where you’ll apply what you’ve learned by drafting a new NIH biosketch or developing Specific Aims for your next research project.
Learning Objectives
- Identify at least one NIH policy change taking effect January 25, 2025, relevant to nutrition research proposals.
- Apply key takeaways from the presentation to draft or update an NIH biosketch for a future proposal.
- Formulate 1–2 Specific Aims for a research project to share and discuss in small groups.
Workshop Facilitators
- Lead Facilitator: Nancy J. Emenaker, PhD, MEd, RDN, LD, FAND – Program Official, NCI/NIH
- Lead Facilitator: Stacey Williams, PhD – Scientific Review Officer, NIH/CSR
Target Audience
- Mid-level practitioners with 6–14 years of experience.
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