Obesity
Community Pediatrics
School and Community Health
Pediatric Nutrition
Academic and Research Skills
Liliane Diab, MD
Assistant professor
Nutrition
Children's Hospital Colorado
Aurora, Colorado, United States
Jaclyn Albin, MD, CCMS
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine
Pediatrics
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States
Empowering the Next Generation: Illuminating the Role of Food in Health Outcomes through Culinary Medicine
Agenda
9.00 Welcome and Introduction
9.15 Dr Jaclyn Albin presentation: Empowering the Next Generation: Illuminating the Role of Food in Health Outcomes through Culinary Medicine
10.15 Questions and discussions
10.30 Dialogue about the future directions of the Nutrition Sig
Objectives:
1. Summarize the implications of a poor diet and associated health outcomes
2. Discuss gaps in nutrition education and describe an innovative approach through Culinary Medicine
3. Review the dietary and educational research driving the inter-professional Culinary Medicine model
Summary:
As a top risk factor for early death and disability both nationally and globally, a poor diet has emerged as a critical area to promote lifestyle modification. For children, the effects of a poor quality diet may or may not emerge in childhood, but the opportunity to set a child on a path of good health necessitates attention to habits that will last a lifetime. In spite of the overwhelming impact of food on health, medical education has failed to rise to the challenge and continues to lack standardized, competency-based, clinically relevant curriculum, and most medical schools fall far short of the National Research Council's minimum recommendations for nutrition education. Fortunately, innovative new approaches have a arisen to bridge the educational gap and prepare the next generation of physicians to care for children, many of whom are increasingly burdened by chronic, lifestyle-related diseases. Culinary Medicine serves as a model that encourages an inter-professional, hands on, case based approach to teach data-driven nutrition and food science to trainees. Pediatricians are know as fierce advocates and champions for children's health, and the time is ripe to promote integration of nutrition education that equips trainees to connect the exam room to the community and to eventual policy change to promote the health and future of the next generation of children