Breakout
As nutrition clinicians, we want to provide the best care to our patients. Our goal is to implement evidence-based practice guidelines to achieve optimal patient outcomes. However, we may hit boundaries that limit our ability to accomplish this. Moreover, there are many gaps in knowledge for many of the nutrition-based issues we encounter often leaving nutrition practices to be based on dogma. This session will highlight examples of how moving boundaries can lead to implementing current and creating new clinical nutrition evidence-based practices.
Gail Cresci, PhD, RD is an Associate Professor in Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University and Full Staff in the Departments of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition, Digestive Diseases Institute and Inflammation & Immunity, Lerner Research Institute, as well as Director for Nutrition Research within the Center for Human Nutrition, Digestive Disease Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. She is also the Nutrition Thread Director for the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine.
Dr. Cresci completed her doctorate degree in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the Medical College of Georgia-Augusta University, Master of Science degree in Nutrition at Rosalind Franklin University of Health Sciences, and Bachelor of Science Degree in Dietetics at the University of Akron. Dr. Cresci’s NIH-funded research program focuses on the gut microbiome with a particular focus on its metabolic byproducts in health and disease. Dr. Cresci has published over 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and edited 2 editions of a textbook in critical care nutrition. She has received numerous awards for her clinical and research endeavors including the 2023 Fellow ASPEN (FASPEN), 2018 Stanley Dudrick Research Scholar Award from the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (ASPEN); 2018 Outstanding Research Dietitian Award from the Ohio Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; 2014 Excellence in Practice Research Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics; 2010 Distinguished Nutrition Support Dietitian Advanced Clinical Practice Award from the American Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition; and the 2009 Excellence in Practice Clinical Nutrition Award from the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Dr. Cresci was a member of ASPEN Board of Directors from 2019-2023, where she served as President in 2021-2022.
Date & Time:
March 24, 2025
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET
Format:
In Person & Virtual
CE Credits:
1 Hours
UAN: JA0002345-0000-25-047-L99-P
What You'll Learn
- Describe strategies for overcoming barriers and “going against the grain” to implement evidence-based practice guidelines.
- Explain ways to educate and engage non-nutrition-focused clinicians on the importance of evidence-based nutrition practices to improve patient outcomes.
- Identify the need for a “call to action” for creating nutrition-evidence-based practices to fill knowledge gaps and advance practice.
Topics & Presenters
Director of Nutrition Research, Center for Human Nutrition; Staff
Departments of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition and Inflammation & Immunity, Cleveland Clinic
Associate Professor
Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University
Moderators:
Diana Mulherin
PharmD, BCNSP, BCCCP, FCCM, FASPENClinical Pharmacist Specialist, Nutrition Support
Vanderbilt University Medical Center