Professional Development Chair
Lynn S Brann, PhD RD
I am happy to serve as the 2011-2012 Professional Development Chair for PNPG! There are many great opportunities for PNPG members to take advantage of for Professional Development and we plan to provide you with more in the year ahead. PNPG offers a research grant, awards (creative nutrition education award, outstanding member award, published research award), scholarships (preprofessional scholarship and the Glenda Bilble Memorial Scholarship), and speaker support awards (money to fund speakers on pediatric nutrition topics). Take advantage of all the PNPG has to offer.
Live webinar series-- Nutrition & Celiac Disease (by DietitianCentral.com)
Live webinar series on Nutrition and Celiac Disease, specifically designed for RDs and DTRs. Click READ MORE for details.
2012 Neonatal Nutrition Conference-- March 4–7 (Houston)
Brochure is available at: www.neonate.net/conferences/nutrition/
Objectives:
- define basic nutritional requirements for neonatal growth,
- describe specific nutritional problems faced by low birthweight and premature infants, and
- identify approaches to addressing the nutritional concerns for premature infants after hospital discharge.
Registration Cost: $325 for physicians, $275 for allied health professionals
CPEUs for RD/DTRs: 18 continuing professional education units
Feeding Challenges of the NICU Graduate (Philadelphia)—Fri March 30, 2012
Brochure attached
The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
6 CEUs
For more info, go to: www.chop.edu/cme
CDR allowing RDs to “rollover” up to 15 excess CPEUs
At its February 2011 meeting, CDR approved a process for allowing RDs to “rollover” up to 15 excess CPEUs (up to 10 CPEUs for DTRs) earned in the last 75 days of their current recertification cycle to the next cycle. CPEUs to be transferred must meet ALL of the following requirements:
CDR and ADA Name Change
Based on legal advice, the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) has made the decision to retain its current name. Since the Commission is referenced in multiple state licensure statutes a CDR name change would require that state laws be revised. This process would likely incur challenges from those opposing the statute and additional expenses for legal fees. The Commission will use the tag line credentialing agency for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
