Criteria
We’re looking for:
- Excellence of science
- Novel, contemporary topics addressing new frontiers and/or advances
- Balanced, objective programming
- Inter-disciplinary appeal
- Preeminent speakers and rising leaders at all career stages
- A diverse speaker selection (i.e., diversity on the basis of diverse institutions including MSI, HBCU, Tribal Colleges; race/ethnicity; gender; career stage/level; groups known to be historically underrepresented in biomedical, behavioral, clinical, and social sciences)
- Areas within the Strategic Plan for NIH Nutrition Research, White House Conference on Hunger and Nutrition, DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility), minority health, disparities research, and other timely topics.
ACCME Accreditation and Speaker Selection
The American Society for Nutrition is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians and the Commission on Dietetic Registration as a provider of Continuing Professional Education programs for Registered Dietitians.
Speakers and planners are expected to follow accreditation guidelines and help us create high-quality education that is independent of industry influence.
Speakers must disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that you have had over the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are defined as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
Employees, owners, and stock owners of ineligible companies are generally disqualified from presenting in CME activities, unless specific exceptions are met.