Academy Members: Food and Nutrition Heroes in Action
Date Posted:
October 23, 2017
Running Time:
5:19
This video, featured during the Opening Session of the 2017 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo, features success stories of several different Academy members.
As our nation faces an unprecedented public health emergency, RDNs in both health care facilities and private practice are turning to telehealth as a means for providing medical nutrition therapy and other nutrition-related services to the populations they serve. View Video
Registered dietitian nutritionists at TIRR Memorial Hermann and New Hanover Regional Medical Center are now identifying and addressing malnutrition beyond the acute care setting. View Video
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' National Spokespeople promote healthful food and nutrition messages to the public. From June 2018 to June 2019, the Academy's messages reached 25 million people per month. View Video
Assistant professor and program director of Family and Consumer Sciences and Nutrition-Dietetics at Shepherd University, Arnetta Fletcher, PhD, RDN, LDN, helps to direct the university's strategic plan to ensure food and nutrition are a part of the expanding programs. View Video
Creating confidence in her students, Samantha M. Coogan, MS, RDN, CSSD, LD, FAND, helps her students become the next leaders in the field of nutrition and dietetics as the director of the Didactic Program in Nutrition and Dietetics at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. View Video
Watch as these five registered dietitian nutritionists describe their passion to educate people to make the best food choices to live a healthful life. View Video
Keiy Murofushi, MS, RD, explains his role in spreading knowledge on the importance of nutrition to create change in one individual at a time. View Video
Stella H. Cash received the Majorie Hulsizer Copher Award during the Opening Session of the Academy’s Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo™ in Philadelphia, Pa. View Video
Jacqueline R. Berning, PhD, RD, CSSD, shares her experience as a dietitian starting out in sports dietetics to building a new center for sports medicine as professor and chair of the Health Science Department at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. View Video
