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May 27, 2025
Save the Dates - Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week 2025
Oct 6-10, 2025
This year’s theme is "Unveiling Solutions" for addressing malnutrition across various healthcare settings and populations. Look out for our line up of exciting webinars Oct 6-10 including a joint webinar with the ASPEN on September 25. Check for updates HERE
May 22, 2025
Mentoring session on Bariatric Nutrition Counseling Best Practices for Primary Care
June 4, 12h-13h EST Speaker: Michele MacDonald Werstuck RD MSc CDE
Interested in a discussion about Nutrition for Bariatric Surgery? Learn how to succeed in mitigating common post surgical issues such as weight regain, nutritional deficiencies and malnutrition, and much more. Details here
April 30, 2025
Upcoming Session at Canadian Pediatric Society Annual Conference
Join CMTF's Dr. Jessie Hulst MD, PhD and Laura Carter RD MSc as they share best practices for successful transitions of nutrition care from hospital to home and community at the 2025 CPS Conference in Quebec. See details here
April 23, 2025
Pediatric Malnutrition presentation at ASPEN 2025
CMTF's Jessie Hulst MD, PhD & Jill Owens Registered Dietitian generated a lot of interest during their March 23 ASPEN session on Tackling Malnutrition in Hospitalized Children Using an Interprofessional Nutrition Care Pathway, see details HERE.
April 16, 2025
CMTF Advisory Member first Canadian dietitian to receive Stanley J. Dudrick Award!
We congratulate Carla Prado, PhD, RD, FCAHS on receiving this prestigious ASPEN award that recognizes a mid-career investigator with significant accomplishments in nutrition support research! Read more
April 2, 2025
Nova Scotia Hospitals study shows gaps in Nutrition Screening for Malnutrition
In a new study of 655 patients from 5 hospital wards across Nova Scotia, nutrition screening at admission was done in 55% patients only. Implementing CMTF’s INPAC Pathway resulted in more dietitian referrals, higher SGA rates and more malnutrition diagnoses. Xu Y et al Clin Nut Open Sci …
March 26, 2025
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Nutrition International receives historic Canadian investment for global malnutrition
Canada recently invested $360.6 million over 2025-2031 to Nutrition International to support global efforts to eliminate malnutrition in low & middle income countries, see here.C
March 21, 2025
CMTF founding member receives CNS award!
Congratulations to Manon Laporte, RD, MSc, CNSC from Réseau de santé Vitalité Health Network, New Brunswick, on receiving the Allied Health Award in Nutrition Care.
March 19, 2025
Happy Dietitians Day-Nutrition Month 2025
We congratulate all the Registered Dietitians that help CMTF advance nutrition care across all health care settings. You are the backbone of the work we do, and we thank you for our success! Our working groups have a great representation of dietitians working in different areas of nutrition.
February 13, 2025
Register for CMTF webinar to launch New SGNA Video (Pediatrics)
Feb 26, 2025 at 12 pm ET
Want to learn how to apply the Subjective Global Nutritional Assessment (SGNA), the gold standard for assessing malnutrition, to your pediatric practice ? Register here for this webinar with speakers from CMTF's Pediatric working Group