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National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course (CPE Opportunity)

National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course (CPE Opportunity) 2018-01-11T00:18:29-05:00

You and/or your staff may be interested in this opportunity to earn up to 15 contact hours of professional continuing education credits for only $25/person.  There is also an option for group registrations.  This is through the University of Minnesota’s distance course, which is available from September 1 through November 30, 2017.  
The National Maternal Nutrition Intensive Course at the University of Minnesota focuses on the improvement of maternal and infant health through the delivery of risk-appropriate, high-quality nutrition services.  The focus is on ways nutrition can improve pregnancy outcomes and identify characteristics of program and counseling approaches for maternal and infant nutritional health.  For more information and registration, please visit the following website: http://www.sph.umn.edu/academics/ce/mnic/
This year’s conference topics include:
·         Mindfulness for Work and Daily Resilience for the Health Care Provider (New This Year!)

  • Diet, Depression, and Sleep in Pregnant and Postpartum Women
  • Relationships between Adverse Childhood Events and Weight in Women
  • Cannabis use in Pregnancy: Clinical and Policy Implications
  • Social-Ecological Model of Factors Affecting Breastfeeding Initiation and Duration
  • Telehealth Interventions for Pregnant and Postpartum Clients
  • Perinatal Diet, Inflammation, and Brain Development
  • Fatty Acids in Pregnancy: An Update
  • Inflammation, Infection, and Pregnancy: An Epigenetic Perspective
  • Effects of Malnutrition on Pregnancy Outcomes and Breastfeeding
  • Infant Feeding Guidelines