Integrating Food and Nutrition into Clinical Care: Building the Evidence on Medically Tailored Meals Programs
- 10/8/2023
- 10:00 AM
- - 11:30 AM
- CE: 1.5
- Level 1 (basic knowledge/experience)
- Activity Code: 177489
- Track: Medical Nutrition Therapy
Description
Learning Objectives
• Describe the current state of the evidence and the impact of medically tailored meals on the outcomes of patients with diet-related conditions
• Determine the compounded consequences of malnutrition in vulnerable patients with cancer, using lung cancer as an example
• Identify strategies to integrate both food and nutrition into oncology care as well as evidence and research into policies
Performance Indicators
• 6.2 Collects and interprets research data to advance knowledge and practice, and to enhance effectiveness of services
• 12.1 Advocates for health promotion and disease prevention in communities, in populations and globally
• 13.2 Develops, implements and evaluates recipes and menus for food production in delivery systems
Speaker(s)
Director, Whole Person Care
Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, Harvard Law School
Moderator