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The goals of the NORTHWESTERN
NUTRITION web site are:
- Provide timely nutrition information, interactive tools
and other resources to improve patient nutrition assessment
and enhance the physician's counseling skills or provide
skill training among Northwestern medical students, medical
residents and allied health care professionals.
- Educate the medical community about Feinberg School nutrition
education curriculum.
- Increase the communications between physicians and registered
dietitians at the Northwestern Medical Campus via the "Ask
the Dietitian" online feature.
Over the past decade, a growing amount of research data supports
the direct correlation between optimal nutritional status
and decreased risk of morbidity and mortality. Hence, the
role of nutrition in health care has expanded from acute clinical
diet therapy to long term disease prevention. This paradigm
shift underscores the importance of physician-directed nutrition
assessment as a standard part of patient care, starting in
childhood and continuing throughout life. Unfortunately, physicians
often lack access to current and accurate nutrition information,
which may limit their ability to integrate appropriate nutrition
therapies into clinical practice. With guidance from Linda
Van Horn, PhD, RD, Director of Nutrition Research and Education
in the Department of Preventive Medicine, Feinberg School
and Robert Kushner, MD, MS, Director of the Wellness Institute,
our nutrition staff is responding to the Northwestern medical
community's increasing demand for credible, evidence-based
medical nutrition information by developing the NORTHWESTERN
NUTRITION web site. This is an online medical nutrition
resource was originally funded by a grant from the National
Institutes of Health but now is supported by Northwestern
University.
Northwestern staff registered dietitians, research nutritionists
and physicians have contributed in the content development
for NORTHWESTERN NUTRITION. Our school's medical students
have also played a small but important role in creating materials
for this web site. Your comments about this site are appreciated,
especially requests for specific nutrition materials to expand
its content.
For more information about our department:
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