This is a three-unit asynchronous online nutrition course that explores the relationship between diet and disease. The course is designed for current and future healthcare professionals.
Over the ten-week length of the course, students will study evidence-based nutrition guidelines in the following areas of wellness and disease:
- Nutrition screening, assessment, counseling and nutritional genomics
- Nutrition support (tube feeding and total parenteral nutrition), hospital and modified diets and food-drug interactions
- Nutrient digestion, the human microbiome and disorders of the gastrointestinal tract
- Hypertension and heart disease
- Diabetes and prediabetes
- Energy balance, weight management, overweight and obesity and metabolic syndrome
- Energy metabolism, inborn errors of metabolism, metabolic stress and respiratory disorders
- Liver and kidney disease
- Cancer and HIV/AIDS
The course is taught by a Registered Dietitian Nutritionist (RDN) and Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE).
Other Credits: BRN/RD: 30 CE hrs. BRN does not award partial credits
Note: This course was formerly called Nutrition Therapy for Healthcare Professionals. It is recommended that this course is taken after Foundations of Nutrition I: Introduction to Nutrition Science
Course Number: BIOL-40321
Credit: 3.00 unit(s)
Related Certificate Programs: Integrative Nutrition
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9/20/2021 - 12/11/2021
$395
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online Asynchronous.
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Ferraro, Katie, Registered Dietitian (RD) and a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) with a Masters in Public Health and is a consultant dietitian in San Diego.
Katie Ferraro is a registered dietitian (RD) and a certified diabetes educator (CDE) with a master's in Public Health. She completed her undergraduate work at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX and her graduate studies at UC Berkeley. She currently works as a consultant dietitian here in San Diego.
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TEXTBOOKS:
REQUIREDNutrition in Clinical Practice 3rd
by Katz/Friedman/Lucan
ISBN / ASIN: 9781451186642
You may purchase textbooks via the UC San Diego Bookstore.
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POLICIES:
No refunds after: 9/24/2021.
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9/20/2021 - 12/11/2021
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You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
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1/3/2022 - 3/19/2022
$395
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online Asynchronous.
This course is entirely web-based and to be completed asynchronously between the published course start and end dates. Synchronous attendance is NOT required.
You will have access to your online course on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
Ferraro, Katie, Registered Dietitian (RD) and a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) with a Masters in Public Health and is a consultant dietitian in San Diego.
Katie Ferraro is a registered dietitian (RD) and a certified diabetes educator (CDE) with a master's in Public Health. She completed her undergraduate work at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX and her graduate studies at UC Berkeley. She currently works as a consultant dietitian here in San Diego.
Ferraro, Katie, Registered Dietitian (RD) and a Certified Diabetes Educator (CDE) with a Masters in Public Health and is a consultant dietitian in San Diego.
Katie Ferraro is a registered dietitian (RD) and a certified diabetes educator (CDE) with a master's in Public Health. She completed her undergraduate work at Texas Christian University in Ft. Worth, TX and her graduate studies at UC Berkeley. She currently works as a consultant dietitian here in San Diego.
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TEXTBOOKS:
No information available at this time.
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POLICIES:
No refunds after: 1/7/2022.
No refunds after: 1/7/2022.
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1/3/2022 - 3/19/2022
extensioncanvas.ucsd.edu
You will have access to your course materials on the published start date OR 1 business day after your enrollment is confirmed if you enroll on or after the published start date.
There are no sections of this course currently scheduled. Please contact the Healthcare & Behavioral Sciences department at 858-534-9262 or unexhealthcare@ucsd.edu for information about when this course will be offered again.