Professional Matters Webinar
Professional Matters is a unique webinar series delivering CPD on adult nutrition at your convenience, whether you’re in the hospital or community setting.
Each webinar focuses on the topics and issues that Irish dietitians are most interested in learning about from local experts and specialists, as well as from international speakers.
Professional Matters is a practical and efficient way to build your CPD portfolio. It combines active participation in the webinar itself followed by completion of the online reflection and evaluation forms, available here to download after the webinar has taken place.
Module 3
Beyond BMI: Lean Body Mass and Nutrition
Module Date and Time
Tuesday 12th September 20171:00pm to 2:00pm
Module Instructors
Dr Carla Prado PhD, RD, FTOS
Assistant Professor at the University of Alberta in Canada and a Campus Alberta Innovates (CAIP) Chair in Nutrition, Food and Health
About the Speaker
Dr Carla Prado is a registered dietitian and an assistant professor at the University of Alberta in Canada and a Campus Alberta Innovates (CAIP) Chair in Nutrition, Food and Health. She is the Director of the Human Nutrition Research Unit, and an expert in assessing nutritional status through the precise measurement of body composition and energy metabolism.
The focus of her current research program is to develop targeted nutrition interventions for the prevention and treatment of sarcopenic obesity in patients with diverse chronic conditions. She is currently the Principal Investigator of two randomized controlled trials investigating the impact of nutrition intervention on body composition and health.
Dr Prado received her PhD from the University of Alberta, Canada, and has completed further training at the Cross Cancer Institute (Canada), the National Institutes of Health (USA) and Newcastle University (UK). She is an Associate Editor of Clinical Nutrition and the Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle and has been recently recognized as a Fellow of the Obesity Society (USA). She serves as a member of the Body Composition Clinical Guidelines group for the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, and the National Cancer Institute Sarcopenia Workshop Planning Committee.
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