Academic Institutions
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Center for Human Nutrition, Johns Hopkins University
Welcome to the Johns Hopkins Center for Human Nutrition. Founded in 1990, our Center is based at the Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Our location at the largest school of public health in the world and our close ties to a premier school of medicine confer us great advantage. There are many opportunities for collaboration and for moving scientific findings into the real world of disease prevention and health promotion. Our research agenda encompasses many topics, but public health relevance and applications is a common thread. So is the global reach of the majority of our research.ﾠ
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Center for Human Nutrition, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas
There is compelling evidence that the science of nutrition offers humanity a way to achieve a better quality of life. Nutrition provides ways not only of treating but preventing illness, whether derived from genetic or environmental sources. In view of this, a Center for Human Nutrition was established at The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center through the creation of an endowment fund for UT Southwestern to use in developing a program to "place the entire field of nutrition on a firm scientific foundation."
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Columbia University: College of Physicians and Surgeons, Nutrition Curriculum
The College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University was one of eight medical schools nationally to receive funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Program "Preparing physicians for the future. A Program in Medical Education." Our new curriculum, completed in 1997, has been created around longitudinally integrated four-year long tracks in basic sciences, population sciences, social and behavioral sciences and clinical sciences. In addition to a tradition of strength in basic science there is emphasis on health promotion, disease prevention and behavioral medicine. Nutrition is recognized as one of these four year themes. To help identify areas relevant to nutrition, one of the goals of the Nutrition web page is to highlight the specific nutrition content throughout the curriculum....
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Department of Nutrition, University of California at Davis
The Department of Nutrition at the University of California, Davis, is internationally recognized for its leadership in teaching, including outreach, and research. With respect to teaching, the department is focused on two goals: 1) the training of the next generation of nutrition scientists, and 2) the transmittal of nutrition knowledge to our nation's citizenry. The Department is committed to extending science-based information to the public through local, state, national and international channels.
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Institute of Human Nutrition, Columbia University
As we leave the twentieth century, nutrition is increasingly being recognized as a major modulator of human development and function and disease prevention. Major gaps exist in our understanding of the mechanisms whereby nutritional regulatory processes occur. The program outlined herein describes plans to help fill these gaps through research in molecular nutrition, biochemistry, physiology, cell biology, and nutritional epidemiology and public health.
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New York University Department of Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health
The Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health is the modern legacy of an academic unit originally founded in the 1920s. Today, in recognition of the fundamental importance of food to human life and pleasure; the growing demand for knowledgeable, skilled public health professionals, nutritionists, food managers, and food professionals, the department now trains students for a wide range of careers related to the role of food, nutrition, and health in modern society, culture, and businessdomestically and internationally.
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Northwestern Nutrition Academic Award Program
This site is the Northwestern University Medical School's Nutrition Academic Award Program. The program is supported by grants from the NHLBI and its goals are: 'to encourage development or enhancement of medical school curricula to increase opportunities for students, house staff, faculty, and practicing physicians to learn nutrition principles and clinical practice skills with an emphasis on preventing cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. A second objective was to provide a curricular guide, training modules, and other teaching and assessment tools for dissemination to other medical schools as well as other health care professional schools.'
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Nutrition and Chronic Disease Prevention Project, Mercer University Medical School
This web site states: The Mercer University School of Medicine, with support from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Nutrition Academic Award Program (NAA), is committed to reducing the incidence of cardiovascular disease in medically underserved populations of Georgia. We are developing a unique medical-nutrition education program that includes experiences in basic science, clinical skills, community science, and clinical clerkships/residencies.... The overall goal of this project is to develop, implement, and evaluate a medical education curriculum in nutrition and other aspects of chronic disease (CVD) prevention and patient management with emphasis on the training of primary care physicians for medically underserved populations. Components of this site include: Student Resources (Health Eating, Physical Activity, Cardiovascular Disease, Obesity, Diabetes); Department Resources (for Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics), and Faculty Resources (Curriculum Guide, Medical Society recommendations on nutrition education in medical schools, Nutrition Society recommendations on nutritional education for medical schools).
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Nutrition Education and Prevention Program, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
This site outlines the medical school curriculum in nutrition at the University of Pennsylvania. Components include: Mission, Program Background including faculty information, Curriculum Information (goals, objectives, syllabi materials, and student evaluation), Educational Resources (textbook, PowerPoint slides, assignments, links to web sites, etc.). Funding indicates this curriculum is part of the Nutrition Academic Award Program of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; other funding is from the National Cancer Institute and the Howard Heinz Endowment. Web site pages indicate a 2000 copyright.
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Stanford University School of Medicine Nutrition Academic Award
The overall goal of the nutrition curriculum is for learners to develop a basic understanding of the scientific principles of nutrition, the role of nutrition intervention in patient care, and the role of nutrition in the prevention of cardiovascular diseases, obesity, and other chronic diseases in the general population and in populations with special risk factors. The web-based medical student course will provide the foundation on which to build training experiences for residents in the Stanford residency programs in Medicine and Pediatrics, for physician assistants and family nurse practitioners in the Primary Care Associate Program, and for practicing physicians through the SHINE program (Stanford Health Information Network for Education) and a CME course.
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Tufts University Nutrition Academic Award
In Year One, Tufts University School of Medicine has a 27-hour required course, Nutrition and Medicine, which has been given since 1991. In Year Two, Principles of Clinical Medicine gives students an opportunity to conduct nutrition evaluations of nursing home patients. In addition, nutrition assessment is integrated into the Interviewing (Year One) and Physical Diagnosis (Year Two) courses. The Nutrition Academic Award (1998-2003; NIH HL-97-011) from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI), has given Tufts the opportunity to expand nutrition education to students in their clinical years (Year Three), as well as to Residents practicing at Tufts University School of Medicine teaching hospitals....
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University of Alabama at Birmingham Nutrition Academic Award
Modifying a patients nutrition is cost effective for the prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) but underutilized by physicians due to their lack of skills in counseling patients to change adverse lifestyles. For the Nutrition Academic Award (NAA) at UAB, our first aim is to develop, implement and evaluate a multidisciplinary curriculum in nutrition and prevention of CVD. This curriculum will focus on the training and application of skills for diet and activity counseling by a sequence of learning activities: 1) emphasis on the importance of nutrition for personal and patient health promotion and disease prevention, 2) demonstration of enjoyable, heart healthy meals prior to starting classes, 3) meaningful experience with practical recipe modification and addressing patient-derived, CVD nutrition questions in the freshman nutrition course, 4) skills training in diet and activity counseling in the sophomore year, 5) application of these counseling skills in family medicine (FM) offices in their junior year and 6) advanced skills training in applied CVD prevention in a senior elective.
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University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences UAMS Preventive Nutrition Project NAA Program
The UAMS Department of Family and Preventive Medicine received a Nutrition Academic Award (NAA) in April 2000 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). This 5-year award encourages the teaching of nutrition principles and clinical practice skills to medical students, residents, practicing physicians and other healthcare providers with an emphasis on preventing cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases....
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University of Iowa Nutrition Academic Award Program
This website is designed to share some of the nutrition-related activities being developed at the University of Iowa through the Nutrition Academic Award in order to strengthen the nutrition education at the University of Iowa's College of Medicine....
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University of Maryland Nutrition Academic Award Program
The University of Maryland School of Medicine will use a multidisciplinary team to develop, implement, and evaluate nutrition curricula for 1) medical students, 2) residents in medicine, family medicine and pediatrics, 3) primary care faculty, 4) community primary care physicians, and 5) nursing students. The team includes experts in nutrition, behavior change, preventive medicine, internal medicine, preventive cardiology, family medicine, pediatrics, biostatistics, and evaluation....
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University of Minnesota Food Science and Nutrition Home Page
The Department of Food Science and Nutrition (FScN) offers undergraduate and graduate programs in Nutrition and in Food Science that prepare students for careers related to food and health. Students completing the undergraduate programs receive a Bachelor of Science degree. Students may obtain either Master of Science or Doctor of Philosophy degrees from graduate programs. The studies of food science and nutrition cover the food continuum from the producer to the consumer. Food Science includes food processing, product development, food distribution and marketing, its preparation and serving. Nutrition relates to human health and the prevention of chronic diseases. The Department of Food Science and Nutrition is jointly administered by the College of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Sciences (COAFES) |
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University of Washington Nutrition Academic Award
The Nutrition Academic Award (NAA) is an award from the National Institutes of Health in response to national and public recommendations to enhance the nutrition education of health care providers. Despite these recommendations, nutrition education in medicine remains fragmented and inconsistent. The NAA faculty at the University of Washington have embarked on a program to augment medical-nutrition education , such as education on disease prevention and health promotion. Research at the UW focuses particularly on arteriosclerosis and its outcome cardiovascular disease (CVD)....
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