INTEGRATING NUTRITION INTO PRACTICE
Cognitive & Mental Health
Advanced Practice Module
This comprehensive course is tailored for health professionals seeking to deepen their knowledge and skills in cognitive health and personalized nutrition. Through a blend of scientific insights and practical applications, participants will explore the underlying mechanisms of cognitive health and dysfunction and learn how to design nutritional interventions to optimize cognitive and mental well-being.
About the Course
Participants will:
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Explore the underlying mechanisms of cognitive health and dysfunction
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Learn how to design nutritional interventions to optimize cognitive and mental well-being
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Sections include "The Mental Health Landscape", "Underlying Mechanisms of Cognitive Health", "Alzheimer's Subtypes- Clinical Relevance", "Subtype Assessment", "Clinician Questions"
Cognitive & Mental Health
Advanced Practice Module
Presenters
Jill Sheppard Davenport is a Licensed Dietician-Nutritionist and public policy expert, with twenty years of experience directing, managing and implementing food and nutrition-related projects in support of disadvantaged communities. She holds a master’s degree in Nutrition and Integrative Health from the Maryland University of Integrative Health, and a master’s in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. She is committed to healthy equity, improving access to quality food, and inspiring businesses, families, communities and institutions to pursue healthier futures. As a clinical nutritionist in private practice, she has a heart-centered, science-oriented approach, and specializes in nutrition for metabolic health, mental health, gut health and women's hormones.
Jill Sheppard Davenport, MS, MPP, CNS, LDN, LN, NBC-HWC
David Perlmutter is a board-certified neurologist and New York Times bestselling author. He serves on the American Nutrition Association’s Scientific Advisory Board and is a distinguished Fellow of the ANA. Dr. Perlmutter received his M.D. degree from the University of Miami School of Medicine where he was awarded the Leonard G. Rowntree Research Award. He serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease and has published extensively in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Archives of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and The Journal of Applied Nutrition. In addition, he is a frequent lecturer at symposia sponsored by institutions such as the World Bank and IMF, Columbia University, Scripps Institute, New York University, and Harvard University, and serves as an Associate Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Perlmutter has been interviewed on many nationally syndicated television programs and is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Humanitarian of the Year Award of the ANA’s American College of Nutrition.
David Perlmutter, MD, FACN, ABIHM
Dr. Bredesen is an internationally recognized expert in the mechanisms of neurodegenerative diseases. He believes that Alzheimer’s as we know it is not just preventable, but reversible. He earned his MD from Duke University Medical Center and served as Chief Resident in Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), before joining Nobel laureate Stanley Prusiner’s laboratory at UCSF as an NIH Postdoctoral Fellow. He held faculty positions at UCSF, UCLA, and the University of California, San Diego and joined the Buck Institute in 1998 as founding President and CEO. Dr. Bredesen’s research explores previously uncharted territory in explaining the physical mechanism behind the erosion of memory seen in Alzheimer’s disease and has opened the door to new approaches to treatment. He’s the author of multiple best-selling books, including his latest, The First Survivors of Alzheimer’s.
Dale Bredesen, MD