Grants & Awards Committee Chair

Donna H Mueller, PhD RD FADA LDN

The Published Research Award is offered by the Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group (PNPG) and sponsored by the Nestle Nutrition Institute. This award recognizes outstanding research in pediatric nutrition and/or maternal and child health by a PNPG member, published in a peer-reviewed journal.

This award recognizes outstanding leadership contributions made by a member of the Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group (PNPG) to pediatric nutrition and/or maternal and child health.  The OMY award is sponsored annually by the Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group and the Nestle Nutrition Institute.  The OMY award is presented during the American Dietetic Association’s Food & Nutrition Expo & Conference (FNCE) the PNPG Annual Business Meeting.  Recognition will include a cash award and a plaque.

The Pediatric Nutrition Practice Group (PNPG) Creative Nutrition Education (CNE) Award is presented annually. The CNE Award recognizes an individual who has demonstrated a creative approach in pediatric nutrition that may serve to assist other PNPG members in nutrition education of children and their families. 

Scholarship & Speaker  Stipend:

Preprofessional Scholarship:  Application Deadline is April  15,  2010

 Speaker Stipend:  Application Deadline is April 15,  2010

Congratulations to PNPG members Betty Lucas and Shirley Ekvall who have been awarded with Excellence in Practice Awards from the Behavioral Health Nutrition DPG!  These two members will be honored at the BHN DPG events at FNCE in Chicago. Thank you for all your hard work in the field of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Pediatrics.