Integrating food as medicine into tube feeding plans: What dietitians need to know
US/Canadian dietitians: The live symposium was Wednesday, October 1 at 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET.
“Integrating food as medicine into tube feeding plans: What dietitians need to know” awards 1.0 CPEU in accordance with the Commission on Dietetic Registration’s CPEU Prior Approval Program. CPEUs for the live webinar expire on September 2, 2026, and CPEUs for the webinar recording expire on August 27, 2028. Please access your certificate before then.
Australian/NZ dietitians: The live symposium was Thursday, 2 October at 2:00 – 3:00am Sydney/Melbourne time. CPD hours are applicable for Australia and New Zealand dietitians.
About the symposium:
​Join us for a thought-provoking and practical session on integrating food as medicine principles into your patients’ tube feeding plans—ensuring patients fed through a tube are included in this important conversation. In this webinar, Olivia Myers, RDN, LD will guide you through food as medicine principles and current initiatives related to the movement, and Katherine Bennett, MPH, RD will share the latest research on blenderized tube feeding and simple, actionable ways to incorporate whole-food ingredients into tube feeding plans. Walk away with evidence-based strategies to personalize nutrition plans, approaches to support patient goals with confidence and insights to position yourself as a leader in advancing food as medicine for every patient.
About the speakers:
Olivia Myers, RDN, LD background in dietetics and ecogastronomy has shaped a career that has oscillated between restaurants, hospitals and agriculture, and led to her work today at Lowcountry Street Grocery (LSG). She founded GroceryRx in 2017 with an intent to merge good food and healthcare, knowing that high-quality, nutrient-dense food is the basis of wellness and disease prevention and treatment. Olivia’s food and nutrition experience ranges from homesteading and being a chef, to working as a dietitian in remote Alaska, at therapeutic wilderness programs and in inpatient and outpatient care settings. Â
Katherine Bennett MPH, RD has worked as a pediatric dietitian since 2003 and has become a specialist in pediatric nutrition support, serving children of all ages through CHOC Children’s Hospital Gastroenterology and Nutrition program. Katherine is passionate about enteral nutrition support in the pediatric population and strives to make tube feeding as easy and normal as possible for clinicians, patients, and families alike. Katherine is a published author and has spoken on the local and national level on pediatric tube feeding and blenderized tube feeding, encouraging further education and support of real food-based tube feeding.​
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Commercial support provided by Functional Formularies
Olivia Myers and Katherine Bennett received an honorarium for this presentation from Functional Formularies.Â
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| Continuing Education (USA) | |
|---|---|
| Duration | 1 hour |
| CPEUs Awarded | 1.0 |
| Performance Indicators | 2.1.4, 11.3.4, 11.3.7, 11.3.8 |