The Public Policy
Workshop (PPW) sponsored by ADA with webinars offered between March 22 and April 13, 2010, see the PPW web site: http://www.eatright.org/ppw/
As we did last year, the Maine Dietetic Association
(MDA) will host PPW Kick-Off Parties on March 22 -- with free CPEs --at the following four sites:
University of Maine in Orono –
Jenness Hall
Host: Adrienne A. White, PhD, RD
(207) 581-3134
awhite@maine.edu
Muskie School of Public Service in Augusta
– Muskie School Education Center
Host: Lori A. Kaley, MS, RD, LD, MSB
(207) 626-5258
lkaley@usm.maine.edu
PenBay Medical Center in Rockport –
PBMC Cardiac Rehab Conference Room
Host: Marcia Kyle, RD, LD, CDE
(207) 236-6838
bkyle@roadrunner.com
Maine Medical Center in Portland - Dana Auditorium classroom # 4
Host:
Kathleen Halpin MS RD LD
(207)
662- 2511
halpik@mmc.org
March
22 PPW Opening Session Party Agenda:
4-5 p.m. sign-in, networking and refreshments
5-6:30 p.m.
Live Webinar Presentations
6-7:30 p.m. skills and planning for Congressional district meetings
If you are attending one of the Opening Session parties on March
22, please contact the host of your preferred site to register for that session. DO NOT register for the opening
session yourself. The
host is responsible for the registration fee. Your host will be keeping a list of those who attend their sessions and then e-mail you the CPE information
for your records once they receive them from ADA. Please contact your host as
soon as possible because they will be planning for food for the webinar party. There is no fee for the Opening
Session if you attend one of the parties.
For all other sessions – and for those who are not attending
an Opening Session party and plan to view it on their own – registration information is available at: www.eatright.org/ppw
Remember, if you are going to one of the MDA-sponsored
party sites DO NOT register for the opening session yourself. The hosts listed above are responsible for the registration.
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Maine Nutrition Council is sponsoring “Whole Foods and Your Health: Are Your Genes Your Destiny?” on April 7, 2010 from 8:00 am –
3:00 pm at the Augusta Civic Center. Web site: http://www.mainenutritioncouncil.org/
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University of Maine Cooperative Extension Nutrition, Food and Physical Activity Symposium, May 11, 2010, Wells Conference Center, University
of Maine, Orono. Web site: http://extension.umaine.edu/food-health/nfpa-symposium/
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Maine Assoc. of Diabetes Educators and ME Diabetes Prevention &
Control Program - Oct. 3-5, 2010 at Point Lookout - Northport, ME. Web site:
http://www.mainediabeteseducators.org/
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Promoting Healthy Weight Colloquium – free onsite and online
Infancy: Fathers’ Experiences & Perspectives; Fathers
& Infant Feeding; Motor Development in Infancy; & Fathers’ Roles in Families
Friday,
March 26, 2010, 12:30 – 5:00 pm EDST.
Howard
Baker Center & Webcast — University of Tennessee, Knoxville
This colloquium, free for both online and onsite participants, will highlight infancy and how parenting,
nutrition, and physical activity relate to healthy weight gain during this first developmental stage. Register by March 19. For more information
go to: http://nutrition.utk.edu/seminars/HealthyWeightColloquium.html.
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ADA
Webinar — Making Nutrition Your Business: Legal & financial advice for integrating your private practice into a
physician’s office
May 6, 2-3:30 pm, DPD Nutrition Consultants, Inc., 201 Main Street, Suite 5, Westbrook, Maine
As
more physicians look to add a nutrition component to their businesses, RDs need to know how to seek out these opportunities,
and make them work legally and financially. Participants on this webinar will learn steps to connect with physicians, as well
as the financial considerations that exist with such an arrangement. Brought to you by CDR and the Nutrition Services
Coverage Team, the webinar will be 90 minutes and 1.5 CPE will be offered. More
information on www.eatright.org/coverage in days to come.
This Webinar is being hosted free of charge by Debbie Pepper-Dougherty.
Please call DPD Nutrition Consultants at (207) 854-3663 to register.
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Here’s a nice opportunity
for a free CPE, courtesy of one of National Dairy Council’s health professional partners. ADA's Commission on
Dietetic Registration has approved the Nutrition Guidelines for Better Health CPE program that the American
Academy of Family Physicians recently developed for 1.0 CPE. Open the file below for the self study. Reporting
details about the credit may be obtained at:
http://www.cdrnet..org/applications/cpe/ViewProgDetails.cfm?ProgramID=088023&CFID=9482999&CFToken=45596622
MDA members who complete
the self-study should email Catherine Hoffman at the Maine Dairy and Nutrition Council( catherine@drinkmainemilk.org )for the certificate of completion for their portfolios. Members will
need to log completion of the program with ADA directly.
If you have any questions,
contact:
Catherine Hoffmann,
MS, RD
Communications
Manager
Maine Dairy
and Nutrition Council
333 Cony Road
Augusta, Maine
04330
207-287-3621
207-287-7161 (fax)
catherine@drinkmainemilk.org
