Upcoming 2024 - 2025 Continuing Education Webinars

Upcoming 2024 - 2025 Virtual Tech Fairs

Past Events

Tuesday September 10th, 2024 / 12-1pm CST

Click here to Register or Scan QR Code:

Each vendor will be doing a virtual presentation that will include a Q&A. Learn how each company can benefit your team. No registration information will be shared with companies.

This event is free for NI DPG members, and $10 for all non-members of NI DPG and non-dietitian guests. This event does not offer CPEU.

Vendors:

• Avanos - Cortrac

  • The best at getting patients back at the things that matter

    • https://avanosmedicaldevices.com/digestive-health/cortrak2-enteral-access-system-eas/ 

• Timeless Medical Systems®

  • Comprehensive enteral and parenteral nutrition database

    • https://www.timelessmedical.com/nutrition-source/
      

• Practice Better

  • Powerful practice management software 
    • https://practicebetter.io/

Historical Continuing Education Webinars

Key Objectives:

1. GMCS Review: Understand the impact on patient outcomes.
2. Building the GMCS into the EMR: Learn practical strategies for customization.
3. Designing QI Projects: Explore how GMCS enhances Quality Improvement initiatives.
4. Deeper Dive into Value Sets and Measure Logic: Understand precision and reliability in quality measures.

Learning Objectives

• Understand the Global Malnutrition Composite Score, its four unique composite measures, and their integration into electronic health records.
• Describe approaches to designing and implementing quality improvement (QI) projects targeting the malnutrition care process.
• Describe the role of value sets and measure logic in GMCS implementation.

Performance Indicators: 5.1, 5.2, 6.2, 7.4

Speakers

Rob Dunn, RD, LDN, CNSC

Rob Dunn has been a Registered Dietitian for 7 years. He completed his dietetic internship at Massachusetts General Hospital and has practiced in acute care settings for his entire career. Currently, Rob works as the Clinical Nutrition Manager at Salem Hospital, a member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system. He is a member of the Sodexo Healthcare Nutrition team and a Certified Nutrition Support Clinician. Rob’s clinical interest areas include optimizing nutrition support protocols and designing care plans to maintain lean mass during periods of illness. He is a member of the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition’s Malnutrition Committee and serves as the Director of Professional Education for the Massachusetts Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.

Michelle Ashafa, RD, LDN, CAPM, CSM

Michelle is the Quality Technology Analyst for the Commission on Dietetic Registration. She previously served as an IT Project Coordinator at a large health system, is a Certified Associate Project Manager and a Certified Scrum Master. She contributes her experience by supporting quality and interoperability initiatives including the GMCS, Health Level 7 (HL7), SNOMED CT authoring, and the nutrition care process and terminology committees and subcommittees. She combines her dietetics and information technology degrees and experience to promote the technological advancement of the dietetics practice.

Tamaire Ojeda, MHSA, RDN, LDN

Tammy is the Senior Manager of Quality Initiatives and Improvement at the Commission on Dietetic Registration. In this role, she leverages her knowledge, experience, and skills to design and promote quality improvement programs. Her more than 18 years of experience include past responsibilities in hospital food service management, outpatient and inpatient clinical care, higher education, and community settings. Tammy's professional background also includes a Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt certification, and Green Belt Training. Throughout her career, she has consistently advocated for the provision of quality care and actively sought out opportunities for quality improvement.

Moderator

Anne Coltman, MSHA, MS, RDN, LDN, FAND, FACHE

Anne Coltman is the Senior Director of Quality, Standards, and Interoperability for the Commission on Dietetic Registration. Anne has previous experience as a nutrition support dietitian in surgical critical care, a clinical nutrition leader, and a hospital operations senior leader with a wide variety of experience implementing malnutrition initiatives with a focus on quality. She is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt and a Fellow of both the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the American College of Healthcare Executives.

Clinical Nutrition EMR Implementation... Hitting the Ground Running

1 hour of CPEU
CPE Level: 2
This live presentation will be recorded and recording will be available for future access.

Discover how to maximize your Clinical Nutrition EMR's potential for RD productivity in our webinar. Join us to explore efficient screening processes, smart phrase optimization, and data identification for reporting on malnutrition and productivity. This event is designed for Clinical Nutrition teams and professionals seeking to enhance patient care and streamline communication within the EMR system. Don't miss this chance to boost efficiency and improve patient outcomes.

Learning Objectives

• Review key concepts of building an inpatient clinical nutrition EMR.
• Identify discreet data for data collection and reporting.
• Identify areas of optimization for improving productivity.

Performance Indicators: 5.1, 5.2, 7.4, 11.1

Speakers

Val Chudzinski, MA, RD, LDN, CNSC

Val Chudzinski, MA, RD, LDN, CNSC, is a Clinical Nutrition Manager with 9+ years of leadership experience and over 15 years as a registered dietitian. She is passionate about informatics, specializing in EMR optimization, quality improvement, and team development. Currently, she serves as the Regional Clinical Nutrition Manager at Northwestern Medicine, overseeing three hospitals in the NW Region. Val enjoys reading and spending time with her husband Eric and kids, Sofia and Emma. She is also an active volunteer in the Nutrition Informatics and Clinical Nutrition Manager DPGs.

Aimee Serio, MS, RD, LDN

Aimee Serio holds a Bachelor of Science in Dietetics from the University of Southwestern Louisiana and a Master of Science in Applied Life Sciences from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. She has 17 years of experience in acute care and clinical nutrition management and has been an instructor in Nutritional Sciences and the Director of Clinical Education for the Dietetic Internship at Franciscan Missionaries of our Lady University in Baton Rouge, LA for the past 2 years. In this role, she is committed to educating and mentoring dietetic students in their quest to fulfill their educational and professional goals in the field of nutrition and dietetics. Aimee has been enrolled in the Doctor of Clinical Education program at the University of Kansas Medical Center since 2022 and currently serves as Graduate Student Representative on the NDEP Council.

IVAN the Virtual Dietitian and Other Immersive Food Technologies

1 hour of CPEU, CDR approval pending
CPE Level: 3
This live presentation will be recorded and recording will be available for future access.

When people hear virtual reality (VR), images of video games and futuristic worlds often come to mind. Practical applications for VR for dietetics might be closer than you think. This session will showcase innovative research on the benefits of VR applications for nutrition education. Presenters will discuss how VR applications were shown to be more interactive, enjoyable, and produced stronger knowledge transfer while being more cost effective compared to traditional education methods. They will also highlight new methods to measure food choice and even how participants can eat in virtual environments.

Performance Indicators: 5.1.10, 5.2.7, 9.3.2

Learning Objectives

1. Define the fundamentals of how VR headsets function.
2. Identify at least three benefits of VR learning applications for participants and dietitians.
3. Explain at least 2 barriers to VR adoption and propose solutions.

Speakers

Travis Masterson, PhD, MS

Dr. Travis Masterson is currently the Director of the Health, Ingestive Behavior, and Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab) at Penn State University where he is the Broadhurst Career Development Professor for the Study of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. His work primarily focuses on understanding and changing food related behavior using technology including social media, ecological momentary assessment, and immersive virtual reality.

Sara Pritschet

Sara Pritschet is currently a PhD candidate at Penn State working under the mentorship of Dr. Travis Masterson in the Health, Ingestive Behavior, and Technology Laboratory (HIT Lab).  She has previously worked as a dietitian in the areas of pediatric diabetes and weight management.  At Penn state, she is studying the effects of digital marketing on adolescent eating behaviors.

Collecting Outcomes Data using ANDHII: Reports from Two Registry Projects

1 hour of CPEU approved
CPE Level: 2
This live presentation will be recorded and recording will be available for future access

In this webinar, speakers will discuss their use of ANDHII to collect outcomes data in two separate research projects – the Oncology Outcomes Feasibility Study and the Diabetes Outcomes Registry. Presenters will showcase how ANDHII has been used for their respective projects, including how data was collected and aggregated in ANDHII as well as how the analysis will generate answers to important questions related to the nutrition care of patients in these populations. Unique aspects of each project will be presented, including how prospective nutrition care data will be coupled with a retrospective medical chart review in the Oncology Feasibility Study and how a natural language processing analyzer tool built to determine congruence of nutrition care to evidence-based practice guidelines in the Diabetes Outcomes Registry. These two examples will show how ANDHII is being used as an informatics tool to leverage technology and collect real-world nutrition data in order to advance evidence-based practice and better our dietetics care.

Learning Need Codes: 1020, 1130, 1140

Performance Indicators: 5.4.2, 6.1.7, 6.2.2, 6.3.8

Learning Objectives

1. Describe how ANDHII can be used to collect information on patient care and outcomes.
2. Demonstrate how to use ANDHII report features to identify patterns of care and patient outcome trends.
3. Assess the role of registry studies in providing evidence for the effectiveness of nutrition care.

Speakers

Dolores Guest, PhD, RD

Dr. Dolores Guest is a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and Preventive Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine; and is the Director of the Behavioral Measurement and Population Science Shared Resource of the UNM Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Guest completed her PhD in Nutritional Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she also completed her dietetic internship.

Her interest in lifestyle interventions with cancer patients and survivors began when she was a postdoctoral fellow in a combined program at UIUC and Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine, where she examined the effects of diet and lifestyle on breast cancer survivors. She has been at the UNMCCC since 2014; during which time she has supported several dozen cancer control projects. Since 2018, she has been working with the Nutrition Research Network of the Academy on the Oncology Outcomes Feasibility Trial which was developed to respond to the clear need of patients with cancer treated in the outpatient setting be provided more access to nutrition care.

Erin Lamers-Johnson, MS, RDN

Erin is a Nutrition Researcher with the Academy's Nutrition Research Network. In her current position, she coordinates the multisite AAIM Validation and Staffing Optimization Study. She was the study coordinator for the Diabetes Registry Study and continues to collaborate with colleagues on ANDHII registry studies. Erin completed her dietetic internship and master's degree in human nutrition at the University of New Mexico. In her current position, Erin pursues research that evaluates the implementation of evidence-based practice recommendations and their effect on RDN care and patient outcomes. She is particularly interested in research that supports efforts to increase RDN visibility by demonstrating the value of RDN care for patients and clients across different health care settings. Outside of work, Erin enjoys outdoors activities such as biking, paddleboarding, and going for walks with her husband and dog.

Infographics: A Mental Model to Increase Engagement

1 hour of CPEU approved
CPE Level: 2
This live presentation will be recorded and recording will be available for future access

We create infographics or data visualizations because we want to have an impact — give someone new information, change someone's mind, change someone's actions. Before we can make an impact, we need the reader to *engage* with our graphics. But how? Do we lean into storytelling, clarity, illustration, or beauty? In this talk, Alli will share the mental model that she uses to guide her decision-making to make graphics more engaging to the wide variety of audiences you will encounter.

Learning Need Codes: 1020, 1130, 1140

Performance Indicators: 2.1.3, 5.1.2, 8.3.2

Learning Objectives

1. Identify the step we often skip between creating graphics and making an impact
2. How to engage different kinds of audiences by tweaking your graphics
3. How to convince your team to buy into these engagement strategies

Speaker

Alli Torban

Alli Torban is an Information Design Consultant in Washington, D.C. and a leading voice in the field of data visualization where she helps researchers get more engagement with their work. Her academic background is in mathematics and geospatial intelligence, and she began her career as an analyst for government clients including the FBI and The Joint Chiefs of Staff. She's the host of the popular podcast Data Viz Today, which has been downloaded over 150,000 times. Her work has been featured in the likes of Washingtonian Magazine, ACM Communications Magazine, and Nathan Yau's Flowing Data, and she's been published three times in the Data Visualization Society Journal. Alli has been a keynote speaker for conferences around the world, and currently she consults with companies big and small to solve their information design challenges. In her spare time, she loves designing tessellations and reading to her two young daughters.

Informatics Informed Interviews

1 hour of CPEU approved
CPE Level: 2
This live presentation will be recorded and recording will be available for future access

Learning Need Codes: 1010, 1020, 1130, 1140

Performance Indicators: 2.1.3, 3.1.1., 5.1.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.4

Learning Objectives

1. During the webinar, attendees will accurately identify at least two potential barriers to effectively communicating, whether in-person or virtually.
2. During the webinar, attendees will actively engage in activities to enhance their career and grow their interviewing skills
3. After the webinar, attendees will identify at least two approaches to addressing potential interview-related issues

Speaker

Caroline W. Passerrello, MS, BS, RD, LDN

Caroline Passerrello is a nationally recognized and award-winning registered dietitian nutritionist with 15 years' experience motivating individuals, inspiring students, and leading organizations to achieve health and wellness goals. Caroline is an Instructor at the University of Pittsburgh, a Spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, and a small business owner. As an instructor, Caroline strives to create a classroom environment that allows students to feel safe enough to be vulnerable, to be challenged enough to learn, and to remember both how she made them feel and the content she shared. As a Spokesperson, Caroline utilizes nutrition informatics to deliver relevant and applicable evidence-based nutrition advice to a wide variety of audiences. Caroline describes herself as humbly authentic, compassionately curious, and patiently innovative; so that she can positively impact policies and systems to transform our environment to one that supports nutritious food as a right, not a privilege. When not focused on teaching and learning – whether as an instructor, a student in a Doctor of Education Program or a mom of a remote-learning first grader – Caroline enjoys baking with her daughter, exercising with her dog, laughing with her husband, and taking time for herself to read and practice yoga.

Past Events

NI DPG and Friends

Friday August 16,2025 12-1pm CST / Scan the QR code to Register

Topic: Volunteer Opportunities

Tech Talk - Artificial Intelligence: Applications in Dietetics

Artificial Intelligence has the power to enhance how dietitians work. Join us for an open discussion of use cases where machine learning algorithms and generative AI such as ChatGPT can be applied to dietetics practice, such as data analysis and enhanced productivity. 

This event will provide the opportunity to brainstorm and network with colleagues on solutions, plus a live demo of ChatGPT. If you’ve been curious about how it works but haven’t yet created an account, come check it out! 

This event does not offer CEU.

Speakers

Christine Manta Campbell, MS, RD

Christine Manta Campbell, MS, RD, currently serves as head of customer experience at HumanFirst, formerly Elektra Labs. Christine was the first full time employee at HumanFirst and has had a variety of roles in research, sales and product over the past 3 years.  Prior to joining HumanFirst, she supported the Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative's (CTTI) systematic review of feasibility studies using mobile technologies in clinical research. Christine has a background in research serving as a clinical coordinator and research associate at Christiana Care's Value Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. There, she led research and evaluation projects across a variety of implementation science and patient safety initiatives, publishing several papers as first author.  Christine received her master's in nutrition from University of Pittsburgh and completed a clinically focused internship in acute and long term care settings.

Dr. Tatyana El-Kour  

Dr. Tatyana El-Kour is the global nutrition advisor at Aga Khan Foundation, based out of Geneva, Switzerland. She is a recognized expert and thought leader in population health and nutrition. A champion of systems’ thinking. Highly skilled at innovating frameworks to transform processes and leverage technology to maximize effectiveness and outcomes. For over 24 years, Dr. El-Kour has delivered progressive strategies integrating and aligning complex programs and projects on behalf of the United Nations, governmental and non-governmental agencies with a behavior change focus. More recently, Dr. El-Kour’s technical specialty has evolved to address the changing healthcare and food systems landscape, incorporating media psychology and technology to population health and humanitarian programming to effect regulatory and policy changes and drive population behavior change.

Members Only Webinars*

*CPE has expired for all Members Only webinars

How to Start and Advance a Career in Nutrition Informatics

1 hour of CPEU approved
CPE Level: 2
This live presentation will be recorded and recording will be available for future access

Performance Indicators: 3.1.1, 8.3.2, 8.3.4

Learning Need Codes: 1010, 1130, 1140

Learning Objectives

1. Explain the role of standardized terminology in gaining a career in informatics
2. Understand skills and tactics that facilitate breaking into and advancing a career in informatics
3. Construct a plan for a job transition in nutrition informatics

Speakers

Carolyn A. Silzle, MBA, MS, RD, LD, FAND

Carolyn Silzle has been a registered dietitian for over 40 years. She held a variety of positions in adult hospitals in Cleveland, Ohio and Atlanta, Georgia. However, Carolyn found her passion working for a pediatric hospital. After twelve years working in clinical, she discovered a new opportunity to help create the electronic medical record for our system. Carolyn had experience with computers, using Word to write her clinical notes and Excel to assist with calculating ketogenic and metabolic diets. Although they were focused on getting nurses, she was hired and became orders certified with Epic. She retired from fulltime work from Children's Healthcare of Atlanta after 26 years last year, but continues to work prn directly for lab, building their orders for Epic.

While she switched career paths, she has continued to stay involved with the Academy, DPGs, and other workgroups including HL7 Care plans. Currently, she is a trustee of the Georgia Dietetic Foundation and Chair of Awards for the Nutrition Informatics DPG.

William I. Swan, FAND

A retiree after more than 20 years as Supervisor of Dietitians at Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland. Clinical responsibilities at AAMC included adult and neonatal critical care. Currently, Bill enjoys the arts and outdoor activities around Taos, New Mexico. He serves on the Board of The Guilds of the Santa Fe Opera, Inc.

Academy activities have included the Chair of Evidenced Based Practice, Chair Nutrition Care Process Research Outcomes Committee, participation in the Dietetics Practice Based Research Network, co-authoring Diabetes Mellitus Toolkit, serving on the IDNT/SL Advisory Panels for the 4th and e NCPT editions, and contributing as a content expert for the Nutrition Orders Domain Analysis Model and clinical documentation standards for HL7. Bill was recognized as an Outstanding Preceptor Region 6 in 2012 and became a Fellow of the Academy in 2014. Publications have touched on ethical selection of infant and enteral feeding formulas, integrating Nutrition Care Process and Evidence Analysis Library Guidelines into expected care chains, and recent updates of the Nutrition Care Process and Nutrition Care Process Terminology. Current work with the Academy includes contributing to the migration of NCP Terminology to SNOMED-CT, The Gravity Project with HL7, and representing the Academy on Trinity Health's FNS Nutrition Advisory Council.

Sarah Taylor, MBA, RD, LD

Sarah Taylor is an experienced Registered Dietitian in the field of Healthcare Nutrition Informatics. She started her career as a clinical dietitian and quickly found her passion in project management and process improvement. Throughout her career as a clinical dietitian, Sarah spearheaded multiple IT-related projects to include revolutionizing clinical nutrition documentation processes and standardizing documentation of malnutrition through a physician-led taskforce. Sarah's passion for information systems and projects led her to pursue an MBA, which she completed in 2018. Many of Sarah's accomplishments in the field are targeted around cost savings, waste management, and labor management through workflow efficiencies. A few of these accomplishments include transitioning a $3M storeroom inventory from manual inventory practices to an online inventory management system; implementing payroll deduct for the entire Network; and launching an online ordering platform for floor stocks across the Network.

Sarah takes pride in empowering the Nutritional Services department to make data-driven decisions by harnessing the power of information systems, which was previously impossible due to tedious, manual processes in place. Outside of work, Sarah enjoys teaching and practicing yoga, spending time with her husband and family, and is a proud mother to two fur babies, Gracie and Nova.

Foodservice Efficiences Using Informatics Solutions

1 hour of CPEU approved
CPE Level: 2
This live presentation will be recorded and recording will be available for future access

Performance Indicators: 8.3.5, 5.1.1, 8.3.7

Learning Need Codes

• 1020, Computer, electronic technology
• 1065, Informatics
• 1070, Leadership, critical and strategic thinking

Learning Objectives

1. Discuss how the use of informatics tools in foodservice can help decrease food waste and easily provide costing and nutrient analysis of recipes and menus.
2. Discuss foodservice informatics’ role in Long Term Post Acute Care, schools, grocery, and restaurants.
3. List examples of recent adaptations in foodservice operations with COVID-19 and how informatics tools can help with these changes.

Speakers

Amy Wootton, RD, LDN

Amy Wootton, RDN, with over 20 years of experience in clinical and food service nutrition mangement for acute and long term post-acute care. Nutrition informatics has been a driving factor in career leadership success. Amy has been the Director of Nutrition Management at MatrixCare for the past 4 years working closely with both the clinical product electronic health record line as well as dietary software solution, MealTracker. As a key subject matter expert, Amy introduced integrations and feature enhancements to development team to incorporate nutrition standards of practice.

Amy is an active member of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, was appointed Chair on the Interoperability and Standards Committee, executive member of the newly formed Nutrition Informatics DPG, and contributed to the Academy's Nutrition Care Process Toolkit Workgroup. Amy accepted a Leadership Award from the Florida Academy of Dietetics in 2017. Most recently participated in a joint effort article with the Academy and Aspen co-authoring Consensus Recommendations for Optimization of Electronic Health Records for Nutrition Care.

Amy is a dedicated leader and is passionate about the success of nutrition interventions as an electronic solution to healthcare crisis'.

Marty Yadrick is Director of Nutrition Informatics at Computrition, Inc., a Los Angeles-based provider of software solutions to the foodservice industry. He has served in many leadership roles in the Academy including Academy President, Foundation Chair, ANDPAC Chair, Chair of the Nutrition Informatics Committee and Chair of the SCAN DPG. Marty is currently a member of the Academy’s Nutrition Care Process, Research, and Outcomes ANDHII Workgroup.

Marty received his Bachelor of Science from Colorado State University, a Master of Science from the University of Kansas, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and a Master of Biomedical Informatics from Oregon Health & Science University.

Digital Medicine 101: Wearables, Apps and Interoperability

1 hour of CPEU approved
CPE Level: 2
This live presentation will be recorded and recording will be available for future access

Nutrition Documentation under the microscope.
Documentation Challenges and ENCPRS

Learning Objectives:

• Identify how to align your nutrition documentation with Organizational, IT and Vendor priorities

• Discuss the role of ENCPRS standards in supporting nutrition documentation

• Develop strategies to evaluate ENCPRS and provide feedback that will strengthen the standards

Session Description:

Using Electronic Health Records to document nutrition for a patient or patient population is challenging. This webinar will review how to align your nutrition documentation requirements. ENCPRS – Electronic Nutrition Care Process Record System – defines the functions and criteria needed to integrate NCPT and eNCPT into an EHR. The webinar will also explain the value of ENCPRS and how it fits into overall Nutrition strategy.

Presenters:

Sharon Solomon, RD is currently a Senior Director of Food Services for Morrison Community Living in a 500+ bed facility in NYC. Her career has been varied and she has lead teams to create strong processes with automation often being the foundation. In addition, she is the past chair of Interoperability and Standards Committee with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Sharon currently serves as the Advisory Chair for the Nutrition Informatics DPG in its first year with AND. Outside of work she is pursuing a Masters in Healthcare Administration with a concentration in Innovation, Strategy and Change Management.

Donna Quirk, MBA, RD, LD After serving for 20 years as the Clinical Nutrition Manager at Lexington Medical Center in West Columbia, SC, Donna is now a Clinical Application Analyst on their Inpatient Clinical Documentation team. Early on, her experience implementing the CBORD system solidified her interest in nutrition informatics. She has completed the AMIA/AND 10x10 Informatics course and the HL7 Fundamental course. Donna accepted an opportunity to serve on the Interoperability and Standards Committee for AND in 2013. The mission of the committee is to ensure the inclusion of nutrition in health IT standards and terminologies. She served two terms as chair of the committee and was content lead for the currently published ENCPRS Standard for trial use. She has also served the South Carolina Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics as Secretary and in various Legislative roles. She led the effort that resulted in the successful passage of licensure in South Carolina. Donna is a graduate of Iowa State University and The Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina. Donna and her husband’s favorite hobby is International travel.

Nutrition Informatics 360: An Introduction to Nutrition and Health Informatics and Q & A Session with NI DPG Leaders