Nutrition & Health Currents: Utilizing the Multidisciplinary Team to Optimize Nutrition Care in Patients with Cancer
Course Description:
In this article, you’ll identify challenges to providing optimal nutrition care to oncology patients; describe the importance of early nutrition intervention and how it can benefit the oncology patient; define the role and responsibility of registered dietitian nutritionists on the multidisciplinary care team; and identify ways to expand oncology nutrition programs through a multidisciplinary team approach.Course Objectives:
- Identify challenges to providing optimal nutrition care to oncology patients.
- Describe the importance of early nutrition intervention and how it can benefit the oncology patient.
- Define the role and responsibility of registered dietitian nutritionists on the multidisciplinary care team.
- Identify ways to expand oncology nutrition programs through a multidisciplinary team approach.
- Run Time: 60
Course Instructor Bio(s)
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Rhone M. Levin, MEd, RDN, CSO, LD, FAND
Board Certified Oncology Dietitian
Duke University Hospital
Durham, NC, USA
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Liz LeFevre, MHS, RD, CSO, LD
Registered Dietitian
St Luke’s Cancer Institute: Meridian
Meridian, ID, USA
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Jeannine Mills, MS, RDN, CSO, LD
Certified Specialist in Oncology Nutrition
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH, USA
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