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Presenter(s): Jaclyn Quinlan, MPH, RD, LDN
Ainsley Malone, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN
Presenter(s): Jaclyn Quinlan, MPH, RD, LDN
Ainsley Malone, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN
Date: 10 December 2024
Continuing Education Credits: Dietitian CPEU 1.0
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) can present unique challenges for pediatric patients, affecting not only their physical growth, but their overall health and well-being too. Good nutrition plays a pivotal role in managing symptoms, promoting growth, and supporting better outcomes for these patients. Jaclyn Quinlan MPH, RD, LDN, will delve into the nutritional concerns for pediatric patients with IBD, how nutrition impacts the management of the disease, and role of diet as an adjunct treatment. Leave with the strategies you need to improve the lives of your patients.
This Dietitian Connection Webinar is supported by a medical education grant from ANHI.
Dietitian CPEU 1.0
Jaclyn Quinlan MPH, RD, LDN, received her undergraduate degree at the University of Rhode Island and went on to complete a coordinated MPH/DI program at UMass Lowell. She has worked in the outpatient pediatric GI setting for five years. In her current role, she works as a part of the multidisciplinary IBD Center and Celiac Center at Boston Children’s Hospital as an outpatient Clinical Nutrition Specialist. Her interests include integrating diet therapy as part of the care plan for the patient with IBD as well as providing diet education to patients and their families regarding fiber and its relationship to IBD.
Clinical Practice Specialist
American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Columbus, OH, USA
Ainsley M. Malone, MS, RDN, LD, CNSC, FAND, FASPEN serves as a Clinical Practice Specialist for the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN) where she works to support clinical practice activities for the organization. She retired in 2023 from her 40-year career as a nutrition support dietitian within the Mt. Carmel Health System in Columbus where she assisted in the management of patients requiring enteral and parenteral nutrition.
Ainsley is a global and national leader in malnutrition related activities having served as an author of the 2012 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics/ASPEN Malnutrition Consensus Characteristics and the 2018 Global Leadership Initiative on Malnutrition (GLIM) consensus characteristics. She is currently serving as Co-Lead of the GLIM Implementation and Dissemination working group. Over her longstanding career, Ainsley has served in many nutrition leadership capacities including President of ASPEN 2013-14 and on the Board of Directors for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics where she currently serves as Speaker of the House of Delegates.
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