Webinars

Unlocking the Power of the GMCS: Navigating the Implementation Build

Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2024

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Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (CT)
    

1 hour of CPEU
CPEU Level: 2

Join us at "Unlocking the Power of the GMCS: Navigating the Implementation Build," an essential event for healthcare professionals and IT specialists. Discover the intricacies of the Global Malnutrition Composite Score (GMCS) and its seamless integration into the Electronic Medical Record (EMR).

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.

Don't miss this chance to optimize GMCS implementation and elevate the quality of care. Register now for a day of learning, collaboration, and inspiration!

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.

Past Webinars

Clinical Nutrition EMR Implementation... Hitting the Ground Running

Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2023

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Time: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (CT)
    

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

Date: Wednesday, June 7, 2023

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Time: 11:30 AM - 12:30 PM (CT)
    

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

Date: Thursday, January 20, 2022

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Length: 1 hr
    

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

Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2021

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Length: 1 hr
    

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

Date: Thursday, March 11, 2021

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Length: 1 hr
    

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.