UAND Annual Conference Agenda: Thursday, March 26, 2015
TIME / CEU / ACTIVITY7:15-8:00 / - / Morning Social, Breakfast, and Registration
8:00-8:10 / - / Welcome & Announcements
8:10-9:20 / 1 / GENERAL SESSION Amy Myrdal Miller, Today’s Food Conversation
- Provide an understanding of how people are talking about, understanding, and engaging with their food environment
- Determine how best to reach people in order to share science-based nutrition information
- Understand where the science stands regarding some major food trends and commonly held beliefs
9:20-10:30 / 1 / GENERAL SESSION Becky Sulik,
Reimbursement: New Game, New Rules
- Describe what is happening in health care delivery and payment
- List some of the new opportunities and how to take advantage of them.
- List resources does the Academy has to help with reimbursement, coding, and payment.
10:30-11:30 / 1 / BREAK AND POSTER SESSION
11:30-12:30 / 1 / GENERAL SESSION Amy Gates,
Nutritional Strategies to Improve Outcomes in the Premature Infant
- Describe common nutritionally related complications in the preterm infant
- Discuss the role of human milk in the prevention and treatment of disease in the preterm infant
- Describe the limiting nutrients and methods for supplementation for the preterm infant
12:30-2:00 / - / LUNCH WITH THE BOARD (Boxed Lunch)
2:00-3:00 / 1 / BREAK-OUT SESSION
1. Becky Sulik, Alphabet Soup: Understanding the Use of Coding/Billing Terminology
- Identify procedure codes for nutrition and nutrition-related services that may be reimbursed by commercial third party payers.
- Recognize coding use and payment trends among RDNs across the country.
- Recognize opportunities to expand nutrition practice to receive payment for nutrition and nutrition-related services in multiple settings.
- Describe common nutritionally related complications in the preterm infant
- Discuss the role of human milk in the prevention and treatment of disease in the preterm infant
- Describe the limiting nutrients and methods for supplementation for the preterm infant
- Identify the role of vitamin D on skeletal muscle function in orthopedics
- Identify the role of vitamin D on circulating cytokines
- Provide an understanding of how dairy foods are produced - from animal care through the process of making milk and ultimately (on our farm) cheese.
- To give dietitians a more comprehensive understanding of agriculture in order to answer patient/client questions about farming and where food comes from.
3:00-3:15 / - / BREAK
3:15-4:30 / 1 / GENERAL SESSION Nancy Collins,
Nutrition Gems: Pearls for Wound Healing
- Distinguish between sarcopenia, cachexia, and starvation.
- Describe the catabolic and hypermetabolic state and their effect on caloric, protein, andfluid needs.
- Understand the rationale for the use of targeted amino acids in wound healing.
4:30 / - / Closing Remarks
4:45-6:45 / 1 / Networking/ Social Amy Myrdal Miller & Dairy Farmer—Farm to Table
- Understand the integration of science-based nutrition recommendations from the farm to the table.
- Describe the science and art behind food pairings.
6:45 / - / Dr. Nancy Collins, Abbott sponsored evening presentation at the conference center
UAND Annual Conference Agenda: Friday, March 27, 2015
TIME / CEU / ACTIVITY7:15-8:00 / - / Morning Social, Breakfast, and Registration
8:00-8:10 / - / Welcome & Announcements
8:10-9:20 / 1 / GENERAL SESSION TereseScollard, Malnutrition Alert! a Model to Reduce Iatrogenic Malnutrition
- Describe the 2012 Academy/ASPEN international consensus and characteristics for adult disease related malnutrition and their application in acute and ambulatory care settings.
- Demonstrate how interdisciplinary care is critical to identification, screening, documentation, treatment and avoidance of harmful consequences for adults with disease-related malnutrition.
9:20-10:30 / 1 / GENERAL SESSION Jill Castle,Infant Feeding Trends: Popular Craze or Crazy Whim?
- List 3 ways to effectively help the public decrease food allergy risk, maximize nutrition and increase food acceptance.
- Name two feeding recommendations to promote self-regulation, normal development, and reduce the risk for obesity throughout life.
- Identify two or three key nutrients needed in the first two years of life when developing a plan to start solids and how trends such as baby-led weaning affect nutrition.
10:30-11:00 / - / BREAK & EXHIBITS
11:00-12:00p / 1 / GENERAL SESSION Katherine Beals & Maureen Murtaugh,
The Basics of Epidemiology: Understanding research so you can talk to your clients
•Introduce and provide a historical perspective on nutrition epidemiology
•Describe Basic aspects of Methods in Nutrition Epidemiology
•Provide examples of nutritional epidemiology in practice.
•Effectively communicate nutrition epidemiology to clients and the media
12:00-1:30 / AWARDS LUNCHEON (Served Lunch) & EXHIBITS
1:30-2:15p / 1 / BREAK-OUT SESSION
1. TereseScollard, Nutrition-Focused Physical Assessment: Practical Methods to Start and Move Your Clinical Practice Forward
- Demonstrate how dietitians can move forward to create and increase their skills and confidence to provide nutrition-focused physical assessment as one part of a nutritional assessment.
- Provide examples and model ways to support clinical staff engagement and resources for dietitians to start and grow in physical assessment skills.
- Demonstrate the strength of evidence that nutrition-focused physical assessment contributes to daily interdisciplinary patient care and the Nutrition Diagnosis of adult disease-related malnutrition.
- Describe current research relating to environmental sustainability efforts within interpersonal, clinical, and institutional food service settings.
- Evaluateyour communication surrounding food and nutrition with the goal of explicitly making connections between food choices and broader public, environmental and food system health.
- Describestrategies to minimize food waste through betterpractices.
- Identify parenting skills, feeding practices, and child developmental stages that nurture, and hinder, the parent-child feeding relationship and process.
- Changethe healthcare provider counseling approach to include positive feeding practices, parenting skills, child development, and the parent-child connection in normalizing eating and weight.
- Incorporate authoritative feeding approaches, positive feeding skills, sensitivity to child temperament, and child developmental stages into prevention and treatment strategies for childhood obesity.
2:15-2:45p / BREAK & EXHIBITS
2:45-3:30 / 1 / BREAK-OUT SESSION
1.Carin Hadley, Clues to identify problem vs picky eaters and beginning Food Chaining
- Identify differences between a ‘picky eater’ and a ‘problem eater’
- Identify sensory aspects required for successful feeding
- Identify red flags requiring referral to members of a Feeding Team
- List 2-3 changes to 3 preferred foods in a basic food chain.
- Describe the prevalence of low energy availability, endocrine disturbances and low bone mineral density in male athletes.
- Identify male athletes who are at greatest risk for the “male athlete triad”
- Provide prevention/intervention and treatment strategies for male athletes suffering the disorders of the “male athlete triad”
- Describe flavonoids and the common sources of flavonoids in the American diet; food and supplements.
- Understand the potential of flavonoids to reduce blood pressure and reverse endothelial cell dysfunction caused by hyperglycemia.
- Review potential mechanisms of action.
3:30-4:40 / 1 / GENERAL SESSION Mental Health Integration
4:40-5:00 / - / Closing Remarks; Conference adjourns for the year