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National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Nutrition Academic Award Program

Nutrition Courses
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Clinical Nutrition

Unit 1: Role of Nutrition in Maintaining Overall Health

  • Case 1: Virginia Harris (52 year old woman / diet history interview)
  • Case 2: James Hilton (45 year old man / CVD risk)
  • Case 3: Shawn McGee (11 year old overweight boy)

Unit 2: Nutrition During Pregnancy

  • Case 1: Maria Sanchez (36 year old pregnant woman at 10 weeks gestation)
  • Case 2: Carol Jones (29 year old overweight pregnant woman at 4 months gestation)
  • Case 3: Melanie Matthews (a 34 year old woman with gestational diabetes)

Unit 3: Nutrition During Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence

  • Case 1: Heather MacNeal (6 month old breastfeeding infant with poor weight gain)
  • Case 2: Jose Morelos (2 year toddler at risk for becoming overweight with mild anemia)
  • Case 3: Erin Browning (15 year old underweight girl with restrictive eating at risk for anorexia nervosa)

Unit 4: Nutrition for Older Adults (50 years and older)

  • Case 1: Fred Jones (75 year old man with hip fracture)
  • Case 2: Elizabeth Miller (65 year old woman with hyperlipidemia)
  • Case 3: Agnes Johnson (82 year old underweight woman with stroke and pneumonia)

Unit 5: Prevention and Treatment of Obesity

  • Case 1: Janice Johansen (Risk evaluation for a 30 year old overweight woman with a BMI 27 kg/m2)
  • Case 2: Thomas Murray (67 year old obese man with hypertension, hyperlipidemia)
  • Case 3: Lisa Cooke (38 year old woman with post pregnancy obesity)

Unit 6: Prevention and Treatment of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD)

  • Case 1: Richard Robertson (40 year old man with hyperlipidemia)
  • Case 2: Sarah Moore (46 year old woman with metabolic syndrome)
  • Case 3: William Evans (83 year old man with early cardiac failure)

Unit 7: Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes

  • Case 1: Jeff Davis (33 year old man with type 1 diabetes)
  • Case 2: Grace Miller (45 year old woman with type 2 diabetes)
  • Case 3: Timothy Carter (12 year old boy with type 1 diabetes)

Unit 8: Gastrointestinal Disorders

  • Case 1: Philip Bowers (59 year old man with gastroesophageal reflux disease)
  • Case 2: Regina Patterson (40 year old woman with celiac disease)
  • Case 3: Beth Crawford (30 year old woman with Crohn's disease / short bowel syndrome)

Unit 9: Nutrition Modifications for Cancer Therapy

  • Case 1: Meera Singh (50 year old woman with squamous cell carcinoma of her tongue / surgical resection)
  • Case 2: Robert Jewel (70 year old man with stage III rectal cancer / radiation therapy)
  • Case 3: Catherine Showers (55 year old woman with breast cancer / chemotherapy)

Unit 10: Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Therapy

  • Case 1: Bobby Fischer (39 year old man with cystic fibrosis / malnutrition)
  • Case 2: Larry Schaefer (22 year old man with leukemia / bone marrow transplant)

Unit 11: Contemporary Trends

  • Case 1: Victor Young (47 year old man with brain tumor)
  • Case 2: George Adams (71 year old man with benign prostatic disease)
  • Case 3: Kathryn Greene (45 year woman with perimenopausal symptoms)

 
 
 

The Nutrition Project is a collaboration of SUMMIT and the Office of Medical Education and is partially funded by Nutrition Academic Award Grant number HL04325-03 from the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NIH). Copyright: SUMMIT. Stanford University. ©1999-2005

 
2006-04-19