Personalized Nutrition and Primary Care: Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition

Personalized Nutrition and Primary Care: Celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the UCLA Center for Human Nutrition is organized by David Geffen School of Medicine (DGSOM) at UCLA, Office of Continuing Medical Education and will be held from Nov 03, 2018 at Neuroscience Research Building, Los Angeles, California, United States of America.

The target audience for this medical event is physicians, dietitians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other healthcare professionals who practice primary care. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits.

Accreditation: Dietitians can earn 6.5 CEUs.

Course Overview:
Nutrition is the cornerstone of health and maintaining quality of life. Diet and lifestyle are central to reducing the risks of many common conditions as well as age-related chronic diseases including cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and dementia. Many of these diseases and conditions overlap. Recent research has demonstrated that more than 80% of patients with dementia also have cardiovascular disease or diabetes and excess body fat. While we understand that each person’s genes are different, their metabolism of foods is also highly individual. This observation has given rise to the concept of personalized nutrition and the development of tools to optimize individual diets. “Personalized Nutrition and Primary Care” is a one-day CME course that offers providers of varying backgrounds a chance to understand how genetics, metabolic biomarkers of disease risk, the microbiome, physical activity, and body composition can be utilized to formulate personalized nutritional solutions for disease prevention and treatment. Experts in the field will review current evidence and best practices.

Course Objectives:
At the completion of this program, participants should be better able to:
• Integrate modern nutritional concepts into primary care practice with the information and the tools to address the global epidemic of obesity and nutrition-related diseases
• Evaluate food quality using the nutrient-rich density concept
• Utilize concepts of behavior modification including social support, self-monitoring, stimulus control, and stress reduction in developing health lifestyle behaviors
• Counsel patients on cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and dementia using a personalized approach
• Utilize nutrition to complement or reduce dependence on pharmacological approaches in the management of diabetes and fatty liver disease
• Deliver personalized nutrition, individualized activity plans and customized programs for patients.