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January 9, 2023
CMTF-CNS formally commit to UN Decade of Action on Nutrition!
Creating Alliances Nationally to address Malnutrition
CMTF-CNS have launched their new initiative, CAN DReaM, to understand and advance the current policy landscape around Disease Related Malnutrition (DRM). We are looking for health policy experts who might be interested in helping us with this work. Please contact lg3@ualberta.ca if interested.
January 9, 2023
Remembering Hélène Payette
The CNS and CMTF community is sad to share the news of the passing of Hélène Payette on January 3, 2023
On behalf of CNS/CMTF, we wish to extend our sincere condolences to her family, friends and colleagues.
December 29, 2022
Nutrition Risk Screening for Nurses
Mentoring session: Thurs. Jan. 26, 12-1pm ET
The CMTF Primary Care Working Group is holding a Community of Practice session to guide primary care and community dietitians and nurses on how to conduct Nutrition Risk Screening in their settings.
November 15, 2022
Call for Papers
Addressing Disease Related Malnutrition across healthcare settings
Building on CMTF's work in malnutrition over the last decade and the CNS Food for Health Workshop on May 5, 2022, APNM is creating a Collection of articles covering a combination of original research articles, reviews, and commentaries that focus on addressing disease-related malnutrition in hospital, community, and other settings.
October 28, 2022
Malnutrition Grand Rounds at Health Sciences North, Sudbury
Dr. Barbara Bielawska MD MSc FRCPC Assistant Professor Department of Medicine from the University of Ottawa will be presenting “Recognizing and Tackling Malnutrition” at the Health Science North Rounds on November 16 at 7:00 am EST. This event is open to all.
October 28, 2022
CMAW 2022 Malnutrition Care for All theme a huge success!
Important messages around malnutrition delivered
More than 2000 attendees joined this year’s CMAW’s webinar line up from Oct 3-7th to listen to 15 different speakers from a variety of healthcare settings. Participant evaluations show that almost 90% felt that the webinars “fully met their expectations” and 90% rated the presentations by the speakers as being …
September 23, 2022
Malnutrition Care for All video for CMAW 2022!
by Alberta Health Services
Alberta Health Services (AHS) and Health Unlimited TV (HUTV) have created a Malnutrition Care for All video aimed at the public to increase awareness about malnutrition across all healthcare settings. This 2-minute video is based on the infographics created by CMTF-CNS for Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week 2022™.
September 15, 2022
Get Ready for Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week 2022!
The theme for this year is “Malnutrition Care for All"
October 3 to 7, 2022 - Through a series of webinars delivered by leading experts and the creation of useful resources aimed at clinicians, and healthcare providers across multiple settings, we are excited to enhance the learning around malnutrition.
September 6, 2022
International organisations unite to launch a global call to action against disease-related malnutrition
Over 75 associations signed a landmark international declaration recognising nutritional care as a human right at the ESPEN Congress on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism. VIEW VIDEO
August 12, 2022
CMTF launches Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week 2022 Oct 3-7!
Register now for webinars
Our theme for CMAW 2022 is “Malnutrition Care for All” and we are bringing you a great line up of webinars on the latest evidence around malnutrition and specific strategies for acute care, community, primary care, long term care and pediatrics.