The American Society for Nutrition (ASN) offers educational programs to help practitioners improve patient care and health outcomes by developing and maintaining nutrition knowledge, skills, and behaviors essential to promoting health and the treatment and prevention of chronic diseases. Through continuing education and their activities’ evaluations, ASN assesses the impact of its curricula. We offer continuing education opportunities for a variety of practitioners
Dietitian Continuing Professional Education (CPE)
ASN (Provider #NS010) is accredited and approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) as a provider of Continuing Professional Education (CPE) programs for Registered Dietitians. CPE programs are coordinated through the ASN’s Education and Professional Development Department.
Past Webinars
Can Meat Take the Heat or Should it Get Out of the Kitchen? Meat Cooked at High Temperature and Cancer Risk
Thursday, December 12, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (ET)
Join us to discuss epidemiological evidence and current WCRF/AICR recommendations regarding meat intake and cancer risk. Experts also will review strengths and limitations of mechanistic evidence linking meat HCAs to human cancer incidence as well as common methodology used to estimate HCA and PAH exposure in epidemiologic studies.
Sponsored by the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, a contractor to the Beef Checkoff
How to Fund and Implement ADOPT Core Measures in Your Adult Weight Loss Trial
Thursday, May 9, 2019 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (ET)
This webinar will 1) introduce obesity researchers to the Accumulating Data to Optimally Predict obesity Treatment (ADOPT) Core Measures Project, 2) highlight use of the ADOPT core measures in an ongoing weight loss clinical trial, and 3) provide guidance on how to get involved with ADOPT, including funding opportunities.
Protein’s Role in Bone Health: Does Protein Type and Amount Matter?
Thursday, September 27, 2018 | 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm (ET)
The controversy as to whether dietary protein (particularly animal-derived protein) is beneficial or deleterious to bone health has been a long-standing controversy among health professionals. A recent systematic review of available data found a positive effect of dietary protein on skeletal acquisition in children and adolescents (1). Considerable attention has recently also focused on dietary protein’s role in the mature skeleton, prompted in part by increasing interest in non-pharmacologic approaches to maintaining skeletal health in adult life and later adult years. Recent systematic reviews and meta-analyses by the National Osteoporosis Foundation (NOF) suggest that higher protein intakes have a significant beneficial impact on bone density and risk of fracture at the lumbar spine (2), regardless of the protein source (i.e., animal vs. plant) (3). Additionally, a separate systematic review and meta-analysis excluding or adjusting for weight loss and hormone replacement therapy found large effects on prevention of hip fractures in adults (4). .
Supported by an educational grant from: Dairy Management, Inc., Egg Nutrition Center, and National Cattlemen’s Beef Association
The Farm Bill and Beyond: Advocating for Nutrition and Research
Tuesday, April 10, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (ET)
This webinar aims to inform ASN members about the 2018 Farm Bill and its impact on nutrition-related work and research. With proposed cuts of 20% or more to nutrition research funding institutions in Fiscal Year 2018, federal support for nutrition research funding, federal nutrition programs and nutrition-related public health initiatives is more important now than ever before. The 2018 Farm Bill and nutrition research funding affects the careers of all ASN members and therefore, both directly and indirectly, affects the health and lives of the stakeholders they serve and reach. This webinar will provide an overview of how the Farm Bill is crafted, explore the nutrition-related elements of the Farm Bill, and review the overall importance and impact of advocacy for nutrition and research, as well as provide insight to best practices and approaches to overcome challenges.
Related event: Farm Bill Advocacy Day
ASN is partnering with the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior, and the Food Trust to host a Hill day on Tuesday, April 24 in Washington, D.C. We will meet with congressional offices between 10 am and 3 pm to advocate for nutrition education and nutrition research in the 2018 farm bill. Email Sarah Ohlhorst for more information.
Drink Equivalents and Counseling Patients on Alcohol Consumption
Thursday, November 30, 2017 | 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm (ET)
The first presentation in this webinar will inform clinicians, nutrition scientists and policy makers on the changing policy on alcohol consumption.
Iron and Vitamin D – Impacts on the Microbiome
Tuesday, November 28, 2017 | 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm (ET)
Both iron and vitamin D are essential nutrients that dramatically alter the intestinal microbiome. This program will present current, mechanistic, information linking iron and vitamin D from dietary and supplementary sources to the microbiome and the potential beneficial or adverse effects on the health of humans and animals.
The National Nutrition Research Roadmap: Application of Systems Science, Design and Systems Change to Effect Population Level Change in Eating Behaviors
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (ET)
Part 4 of a four-part webinar series focusing on the questions and topics in the National Nutrition Research Roadmap 2016‒2021: Advancing Nutrition Research to Improve and Sustain Health.
The National Nutrition Research Roadmap: Behavioral Science of Eating Habits
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (ET)
Part 3 of a four-part webinar series focusing on the questions and topics in the National Nutrition Research Roadmap 2016‒2021: Advancing Nutrition Research to Improve and Sustain Health.
The National Nutrition Research Roadmap: Measuring and Monitoring Individual Dietary Intake and the Food Environment
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (ET)
Part 2 of a four-part webinar series focusing on the questions and topics in the National Nutrition Research Roadmap 2016‒2021: Advancing Nutrition Research to Improve and Sustain Health.
The National Nutrition Research Roadmap: Basic Science and Epidemiology of Nutrition
Wednesday, November 2, 2016 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm (ET)
Part 1 of a four-part webinar series focusing on the questions and topics in the National Nutrition Research Roadmap 2016‒2021: Advancing Nutrition Research to Improve and Sustain Health
Why is Vitamin E Important for Infants and Children?
Thursday, June 16, 2016 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm (ET)
Organized by ASN’s Vitamin and Mineral Research Interest Section
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