US EXPERT ON INTEGRATION OF NUTRITION INTO MEDICAL EDUCATION VISITS GEELONG
The WNCIT Team, led by Prof. Caryl Nowson, recently hosted international expert in Nutrition, Dr Martin Kohlmeier. Two speaking engagements (5th/6th May 2014) and a dinner were held in Geelong to celebrate and learn from Dr Kohlmeier’s expertise in the development of targeted nutrition education resources for medical training courses and his nutrigentics research.
Dr Martin Kohlmeier is a professor in the Department of Nutrition of the Schools of Medicine and Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and serves as faculty and primary investigator of the Nutrigenetics Laboratory at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute.
He is also an expert in and campaigner for embedding nutrition into medical education and has developed a host of nutrition education resources over the past twenty years including a suite of online nutrition learning resources (available at http://tiny.cc/nimprof).
Dr Kohlmeier’s first seminar, presented within the Deakin University Medical School’s ‘Monday Seminar Series’ was titled, “Nutrition in Medical Education; Impact, Opportunities and Challenges”. This lecture was well attended by medical practitioners, academics and students from the Schools of Medicine and Exercise and Nutrition Sciences. A recording of this seminar is available here https://echosystem.deakin.edu.au:8443/ess/echo/presentation/a68688c9-fd7e-4d6c-bd8e-a89c89889d8f/media.m4v
Dinner was held at the Deakin Management Centre (Waurn Ponds) and provided a valuable and unique opportunity for invited guests to have a one on one audience with Dr Kohlmeier. Guests included medical practioners from the local community (Barwon region) as well as key academics teaching into the medical course as well as the Prof. Bernie Marshal, Associate Dean (Teaching &Learning), Faculty of Health.
Nestle Health Science sponsored lunch at Barwon Health Clinical School for Dr Kohlmeier’s second presentation, titled, “How effective is genome-based nutrition? as part of Geelong hospital Grand Rounds lecture. Attendees were treated to an insight into the interaction between genetic variants and physiological markers of chronic disease to different levels of intake of specific nutrients.
The WNCIT Team, led by Prof. Caryl Nowson, recently hosted international expert in Nutrition, Dr Martin Kohlmeier. Two speaking engagements (5th/6th May 2014) and a dinner were held in Geelong to celebrate and learn from Dr Kohlmeier’s expertise in the development of targeted nutrition education resources for medical training courses and his nutrigentics research.
Dr Martin Kohlmeier is a professor in the Department of Nutrition of the Schools of Medicine and Global Public Health at the University of North Carolina (UNC) and serves as faculty and primary investigator of the Nutrigenetics Laboratory at the UNC Nutrition Research Institute.
He is also an expert in and campaigner for embedding nutrition into medical education and has developed a host of nutrition education resources over the past twenty years including a suite of online nutrition learning resources (available at http://tiny.cc/nimprof).
Dr Kohlmeier’s first seminar, presented within the Deakin University Medical School’s ‘Monday Seminar Series’ was titled, “Nutrition in Medical Education; Impact, Opportunities and Challenges”. This lecture was well attended by medical practitioners, academics and students from the Schools of Medicine and Exercise and Nutrition Sciences. A recording of this seminar is available here https://echosystem.deakin.edu.au:8443/ess/echo/presentation/a68688c9-fd7e-4d6c-bd8e-a89c89889d8f/media.m4v
Dinner was held at the Deakin Management Centre (Waurn Ponds) and provided a valuable and unique opportunity for invited guests to have a one on one audience with Dr Kohlmeier. Guests included medical practioners from the local community (Barwon region) as well as key academics teaching into the medical course as well as the Prof. Bernie Marshal, Associate Dean (Teaching &Learning), Faculty of Health.
Nestle Health Science sponsored lunch at Barwon Health Clinical School for Dr Kohlmeier’s second presentation, titled, “How effective is genome-based nutrition? as part of Geelong hospital Grand Rounds lecture. Attendees were treated to an insight into the interaction between genetic variants and physiological markers of chronic disease to different levels of intake of specific nutrients.