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Online Webcast Teaches on Food as Medicine

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Online Webcast Teaches on Food as Medicine.  This webcast will go over the current obesity epidemiology and trends. Then presenters will use lifestyle and obesity approaches and discuss components of a healthiest diet and framework for approaching nutrition.

For this program, we’re excited to introduce two experts who will share evidence-based insights into how we can use food and nutrition to improve patients’ health. Dr Allison Rhodes is a board-certified Internist and Obesity Medicine specialist and uses her skills to partner with patients to achieving their weight goals as well as control of their chronic conditions. She also does research in obesity medicine and is a frequently invited speaker. Our other guest is Dr. Kimberly Tartaglia who is a Professor of Internal Medicine and renown educator. More recently, she has developed a special interest in Lifestyle Medicine so in addition to practicing Hospital Medicine, she is now also board certified in Lifestyle Medicine and started and runs the inpatient Lifestyle Medicine service at Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center.

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to:

  • Identify contribution of diet to disease and mortality
  • Recall components of a healthiest diet​

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Food Insecurity
  • Patient Beliefs
  • Hospitalized Patients
  • Misconceptions
  • Routine Care

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Webcast Producer at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual.  You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.

Physician Viewers Learn About Food Allergy on CME Webcast

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OSUWexnerbloglogo2014 Physician Viewers Learn About Food Allergy on CME Webcast. On this CME webcast, we’re going to bring all of you up to date about food allergies. First, to tell us about non- IgE mediated food allergies is Ohio State University Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and also allergist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Dr. Margaret Redmond. And then to tell us about IgE mediated food allergies is Dr. Benjamin Prince who is also an allergist at Nationwide Children’s Hospital and an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.

View a video introduction of this webcast

What you’ll learn in this webcast

As a result of this educational activity, webcast participants will be able to: DEFINE IgE-mediated food allergy and review risk factors for its development; and DEFINE anaphylaxis and demonstrate the proper technique for using an epinephrine auto-injector.

You’ll also learn about the following:

  • Food allergy signs and symptoms
  • Epidemiology of food allergies
  • Epinephrine auto-injectors

You can find this and many other MedNet21 programs on the OSU – CCME website.

Call our MedNet21 Program Manager at 614.293.3473 for more details about subscribing to MedNet21 as a hospital or as an individual. You can also e-mail him at derrick.freeman@osumc.edu.