The PEN Team will see you at ICND 2024 next month!
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The PEN Team will see you at ICND 2024 next month!
Are you planning on joining the International Congress of Nutrition and Dietetics (ICND) June 12-14 in Toronto, Canada?
This year’s theme is Rise to the Challenge, and the PEN Team will showcase how we help dietitians use nutrition research to meet the complex demands of their daily practice.
Come find us at one or more of the following locations:
- Visit the PEN Booth (Booth 27) where you can meet one of the PEN team members and Global partners to talk about what our dynamic system offers.
- Unstick your mind and help us envision the future of dietetics globally at the interactive session
- 100 Ways Dietetics Could Be Different in the Future (Wednesday June 12, 2024) – Teaser: Let’s explore the reality: What if dietitians didn’t talk about food?
- Attend one of our evidence-based knowledge-sharing sessions
- Podium: Applying Best Practices to Develop Food and Nutrition Consumer Resources (Wednesday June 12, 2024)
- Podium: What Nutrition Strategies Are Effective for Symptoms of Long COVID? (Wednesday June 12, 2024)
- Workshop: Designing Effective and User-Centered Client and Patient Education Resources (Thursday June 13, 2024)
- Stop by one of our interactive ePoster sessions to learn more about PEN’s global partnership and how we incorporate the latest evidence into the PEN System Content
- Not Getting Lost at Sea: Navigating Evidence-based-nutrition Through Global Partnership (Friday June 14, 2024)
- Rapid Mobilization of Systematic Reviews to Enhance Evidence-based Dietetic Practice (Friday June 14, 2024)
Whether you’ve been using the PEN System for years or are just starting, we can’t wait to meet you!
Learn more about ICND and Congress registration
here!
Are you looking for a new way to apply your nutrition practice knowledge?
We need your help! Get involved with the PEN® System as a Contributor in the following ways:
Topic Advisor - Current Opportunities
- Mental Health
- Diet Composition - Low Carbohydrate; Ketogenic Diet
- Gastrointestinal System - Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Content Reviewer
- Mental Health: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Cardiovascular Disease
Handout Reviewer (Canada only)
- Cardiovascular disease
- Gastrointestinal disease
- Gerontology
- Endocrinology/medicine
- Pediatrics - infant and child nutrition
- Pregnancy and women's health
- Oncology
- Sport nutrition
As a reviewer, you will become aware of the most up-to-date research and evidence-informed recommendations before the content is published on the PEN System. Reviewing for PEN also supports your professional portfolio. Reviewers are acknowledged on published content and can download a Letter of Contribution summarizing their contributions.
a hearty send-off for our PEN Editor Heather Alaverdy!
Please join the PEN Team in offering a hearty send-off to our PEN Editor Heather Alaverdy. After 18 years, Heather has retired from her Dietitians of Canada position. She has been working as the PEN Editor since 2006 when she started as a part-time editor. Within three years, the position expanded to full time.
Heather has been part of every major evolution of PEN since the very beginning, leading thoughtful conversations, cheering on her colleagues and inspiring quality and consistency. It's truly hard to imagine the PEN System without her. That said, Heather is ready to step down and is excited for new adventures.
Heather noted: “I have been a dietitian and DC member for 36 years. I feel blessed to have been part of DC's journey, to have supported my profession and its members, and to have had the privilege of working with so many exceptional people. I am so proud of what has been accomplished to date and excited for the future. Being involved in the PEN initiative was amazing in so many ways. But throughout it all, it has been the culture of the PEN Team and the relationships that have mattered the most to me. As a DC member and PEN Team member alumni, I look forward to hearing about future accomplishments and celebrating future successes. And…spending more time on trails, a yoga mat and in my garden!”
Heather, we wish you all the best! You will be thoroughly missed by the PEN and DC Staff. In memory of our Beth, the PEN Team offers you this: “ Here’s to it and from it and if you get to it to do it, do it as you may never get to it to do it again.”
PEN eNews
May 2024 Volume
14 (5)
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