ASN provides nutrition-related education and professional
development opportunities for nutrition researchers and
clinicians, physicians, medical practitioners, scientists,
dieticians, behavioral specialists, agriculturalists, public
health practitioners, nurses, professors, students, medical
residents, postdoctoral fellows, other allied health
professionals, government groups and industry stakeholders --
both in the US and internationally.
One of the primary ways that ASN offers educational opportunities
to its members is via the ASN
Scientific Sessions and Annual Meeting at Experimental
Biology. To continue this educational programming after the close
of the meeting, ASN offers the webcasts listed below.
Sessions from Experimental Biology 2009
The ASN Scientific Sessions and Annual Meeting at Experimental
Biology 2009 offered 24 major sessions to include symposia,
controversy sessions, workshops, and forums, in addition to 42
topical minisymposia and 101 poster presentations. This meeting
was held April 18-22, 2009, in New Orleans, LA.
ASN's three keynote lectures below are available free of charge to ASN members and all interested.
- ASN Presidential Series: Frontiers in Nutrition Research -- The Evolution of Epigenetics
- Epigenetics, Nutrition, and Disease Susceptibility (Randy L. Jirtle, PhD, Duke University Medical Center)
- The Developmental Origins of Health and Disease (Kevin Sinclair, The University of Nottingham)
- ASN Presidential Series: Public Policy Symposium -- Informing the Health Care Debate
- Health Reform (Theodore Marmor, Yale University)
- The Fattening of America (Eric Finkelstein, PhD, RTI International)
-
W.O. Atwater
Lecture: Individualized Nutrition (Steven H. Zeisel, MD,
PhD, UNC Chapel Hill Nutrition Research Institute)
An additional 10 sessions from the 2009 ASN Annual Meeting at Experimental Biology will be available for viewing by ASN members and 2009 meeting attendees by mid-June. Nonmembers looking to view these videos on the latest nutrition science will be able to purchase access (coming soon). Not an ASN member? Join today.
ASN members may also view archived sessions from past ASN Annual Meetings at Experimental Biology.
Nutrition Education Resource Spotlight: Pediatric Obesity Assessment Online Module
ASN 2008-2009 Clinical Nutrition Internship Program awardee Gita Rao created an Introduction to Pediatric Obesity Assessment online educational module with her internship mentor Dr. Carine Lenders at The Boston University School of Medicine. A team of faculty members and students contributed to the content and design of this project.
Interested in sponsoring next year's Clinical Nutrition Internship Program awardees and having this work featured by ASN? Please contact Paula Eichenbrenner at peichenbrenner@nutrition.org.
GPEC Leads Expanded Professional Development Program Development
ASN's Graduate and Professional Education Committee
(GPEC) and its related committees, subcommittees, and task
forces are developing a robust professional development program
for basic nutrition scientists, physician assistants, dietitians,
pharmacists, nurses, international nutrition scientists, and
industry-based nutrition professionals who are regular or
associate members of ASN. This science-based program, consisting
of conferences, meetings, resources and other materials that will
be delivered in person or online, will offer the unique,
comprehensive scope of programmatic content based on the
expertise of the diverse membership of the ASN.
The Executive Summary of the results of the '2008 GPEC
Educational Needs Survey of ASN Members' is now available in PDF
format.
How You Can Get Involved Today
Are you interested in providing mentorship, contributing an
education video or other resource, partnering on
nutrition research, serving as a nutrition topic expert, or
have another professional development idea? We want to hear from
you. Please contact Ryan Cliche, Education and Professional
Development Manager, at rcliche@nutrition.org or call
301-634-7076.