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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6/24/2019 - 9/7/2019
$375
Online
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CLASS TYPE:
Online, Web-based instruction
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: 7/8/2019.
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6/24/2019 - 9/7/2019
ucsdextension.blackboard.com
You will have access to your course on 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.