The Center for Applied Nutrition at UMass Medical School is holding an open house on Thursday, May 30. The event is free and open to the public, including all members of the UMMS community, particularly clinical providers who can learn more about the services available to their patients at the center.
“Our goal is to shine a light on who we are and what we do,” said Barbara Olendzki, RD, MPH, associate professor of population & quantitative health sciences and director of the center. “We offer cooking classes, conduct research and provide outpatient nutrition counseling and telephone counseling.”
Speakers will address a variety of topics including patient experience with the Inflammatory Bowel Disease-Anti-Inflammatory diet (IBD-AID) developed by Olendzki and colleagues, the center’s ongoing and future nutrition programs, group nutrition visits for obesity and related diagnoses, the MELODY study in pregnant women with Crohn’s disease, how to refer patients for nutritional counseling in Epic, telenutrition, and more.
Attendees will be able to observe a cooking demonstration and sample IBD-AID diet goodies to experience how tasty a restricted anti-inflammatory diet can be. Raman Prasad, author of cookbooks for the specific carbohydrate diet (SCD) on which the IBD-AID is loosely based, will be on hand.
The Center for Applied Nutrition open house will be held in the kitchen of the Shaw Building at 419 Belmont Street from 4 to 7 p.m. For additional more information or to RSVP, email Olendzki at barbara.olendzki@umassmed.edu. RSVPs are requested but walk-ins are welcome at the event.
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