Patient-Centered Medical Home: What It Is and the Potential Role of the Registered Dietitian

February 19th, 2013

Ken Schaecher will be presenting at a Thursday afternoon break-out session.  His background in medicine and his roles as Medical Director, former Chief of Staff at a local community hospital, former President of largest independent multi-specialty clinic in the Salt Lake Valley, and member of the Utah Medical Association give him the experience to talk about patient-centered medical care.

Dr. Schaecher maintains a limited internal medicine practice, which provides unique insight into issues that arise from both the payer and provider perspective and allows for decision making that can be win-win for all parties.

Dr. Schaecher’s current role as the Medical Director for SelectHealth in SLC allows him to be actively involved in the oversight of patient centered medical home activities.  He is engaged in making health care about the patient – the customer – and has an active role in plan benefit design to meet an ever changing healthcare environment.

Come spend some time in his breakout session to learn what patient-centered medical home is an what the potential role of the RD is in this type of care.

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Attend the Conference to Learn About the Affordable Care Act

February 18th, 2013

Dr. Dorothea Verbrugge will be presenting at the Friday morning UAND break-out session.  Dorothea will be presenting about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and would like to also address the coverage requirements for commercial plans (based on ACA) as well as Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, which are different and are not bound by ACA requirements.  […]

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Pauline Williams: RD and DTR Competencies & Advancing Practice

February 14th, 2013

Pauline Williams will be presenting at the Thursday morning break-out session on Academy Scope of Practice for RD and DTRs:  A Tool for Determining Competence and Advancing Practice.  Pauline has been an Assistant Teaching Professor and Dietetic Internship Program Director at BYU since 2010.  She has ventured into various scopes of practice in her time […]

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Learn How to Live Your Best Life with Speaker Pam Schmid!

February 13th, 2013

Pam Schmid will be a presenter at the Friday UAND afternoon general session as well as a break-out session on coaching positive behavior.  She is the perfect choice for coaching positive behavior and living your best life since her life has been about doing that! Pam began a career as a teacher, teaching special education […]

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Jennifer Gibson: US Committee Sport Dietitian’s Road to London

February 12th, 2013

Jennifer Gibson will be the keynote speaker at the Thursday morning general session of the UAND Conference and the presenter of a Thursday morning break-out session on Sports Nutrition. Jennifer’s schooling and work activities speak volumes of her knowledge and experience with Sports Nutrition. She has expertise in high performance sports nutrition, is a passionate […]

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CMS Proposes Expanded Hospital Dietitian Privileges for Ordering Diets

February 11th, 2013

As you know, the Academy has been engaged in conversations with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for approximately two years regarding therapeutic diet order regulations. These regulations preclude RDs from ordering patients’ diets and result in costly and harmful delays in patient care. We have met and communicated frequently with CMS on […]

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Introducing Martina Cartwright!

February 8th, 2013

This is the first post of our new series on our upcoming Annual Conference. Over the next 6 weeks we will be featuring bios on the wonderful speakers we have lined up to present throughout the 2-day meeting. This will give you a chance to read a bit more about each person and plan which […]

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Legislative Day 2013

February 4th, 2013

The Utah Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics is excited to announce this year’s Legislative Day will be on Thursday, February 14th at 7:15 AM at the Utah State Capitol Complex!   We are excited to have State Senator Steve Urquhart from St. George as our guest speaker. Sen. Steve Urquhart has served in the Utah Legislature for 13 years (House […]

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Vote for Academy Leadership and a UAND Member Could Win Big!

January 28th, 2013

Just when you thought the campaign trail had closed… We need one more vote from you….. a vote not only for professional advocacy, but a vote that could win a  “FNCE trip of a lifetime” for one lucky UAND member! Last year only 13.9% of our members voted in the national elections and our neighbor […]

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Lead our Profession into the Future – Become a UAND Board Member!

January 23rd, 2013

We are preparing the ballot for the 2013-14 UAND Board of Directors.  This year the following positions are available: President-Elect Treasurer-Elect State  Policy Rep Annual Meeting Chair Elect Delegate Nominating Committee Member Social Media Chair Elect We are writing this letter to ask you to consider a board position yourself or consider nominating a fellow […]

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