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Attention all Ontario RDs! Sign up for a FREE, two hour, live web cast hosted by the Nutrition Resource Centre (NRC). Join us to learn more about NutriSTEP® (Nutrition Screening Tool for Every Preschooler) and participate in an online, live question and answer period, where we will present answers to your questions. It is a chance to learn how NutriSTEP® is being implemented and evaluated in a variety of public health and primary health care settings in Ontario as well as future plans for this provincial program. NutriSTEP® is a scientifically valid and reliable nutrition risk screening questionnaire, available in eight languages, designed to assess eating habits and identify nutrition problems early in children 3-5 years of age. Dietitian researchers have developed, refined and validated the tool for administration by parents, caregivers or community professionals. NutriSTEP® can dovetail into existing provincial programs such as Healthy Babies Healthy Children (HBHC) as well as in locations such as Best Start hubs, parent education and school readiness programs, JK/SK registration and primary health care settings. This presentation will include contributions from Lee Rysdale, NRC Program Coordinator; Dr. Janis Randall Simpson, University of Guelph; Kim McGibbon, Thunder Bay District Health Unit; Judith Kitching, Region of Waterloo Public Health; Melissa Westoby, Niagara Region Public Health, and Christine Mehling, EatRight Ontario. To learn more about the presenters, please see the biographies below. Sign up now to learn:
Lee Rysdale, MEd, RD Lee is a registered dietitian with 25 years of experience in clinical and public health settings including the Sudbury Regional Hospital and the Family Health and Healthy Babies Healthy Children Program at the Sudbury & District Health Unit. Other past and present roles include: Project Manager for NutriSTEP® development and validation projects; Advisor on a number of national nutrition and child heath projects; Faculty with the Northern Ontario School of Medicine; and, Learning Resource Coordinator with the Northern Ontario Dietetic Internship Program. Since May 2007, Lee has been the NutriSTEP® Program Coordinator with the Nutrition Resource Centre of the Ontario Public Health Association. Janis Randall Simpson, RD, PhD Janis Randall Simpson is Associate Professor in the Department of Family Relations and Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph. Her teaching areas include Assessment of Nutritional Status and Selected Topics in Human Nutrition. Janis' research interests are focused on nutritional assessment in infants, children and young adults. A major focus of research is nutrition risk screening and the development and implementation of NutriSTEP®. She has been involved with the NutriSTEP® research team since 2001. Kim McGibbon, MScCH, RD Kim is a registered dietitian with the Thunder Bay District Health Unit. Her degree in nutrition is from the University of Guelph and she completed a dietetic internship in Ottawa. Originally from Peterborough, Kim has been in Thunder Bay for ten years working in both clinical and community settings. This past year Kim completed a Masters of Science in Community Health with a specialization in public health nutrition from the University of Toronto. Kim currently works with the Family Health Team in the area of prenatal and child nutrition and chronic disease prevention. Judith Kitching, MSc, RD Judith is a Public Health Nutritionist at Region of Waterloo Public Health, currently working in the Child and Family Health Division in the areas of infant and child nutrition. She received her nutrition degrees from the University of Guelph and completed her dietetic internship at North York General Hospital in Toronto. Her past roles include working as a nutrition educator and community dietitian. Judith is currently implementing NutriSTEP® at regional Child Health Fairs and is planning for implementation in the Healthy Babies Healthy Children program. Melissa Westoby, RD Melissa is a registered dietitian with the Healthy Babies Healthy Children/Child Health program at Niagara Region Public Health. She has completed undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry from McMaster University and in Dietetics from University of British Columbia. Her past roles have included hospital based nutrition counseling and coordinator for community based prenatal nutrition programs. Melissa has implemented NutriSTEP® as a pilot project in the Healthy Babies Healthy Children program. Christine Mehling, MSc, RD Christine is the Content Manager at EatRight Ontario. Her primary role is to develop resources, build partnerships and networks needed to create and maintain the collection of resources in the call centre's electronic nutrition database used by contact centre dietitians to answer questions from the public and health professionals in a consistent manner. She is a registered dietitian and completed a Master of Science in Nutrition from the University of Toronto. Her past roles include managing clinical nutrition research studies at St. Michael's Hospital and the University of Toronto. To view this webcast, you must be using Internet Explorer or Netscape (version 4.7 or higher) as your internet browser, as well as Windows Media Player 6.4 or higher. * Please ensure you have cookies enabled on your PC. Minimum Specs - Windows
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