SCAN: Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition

Interested in learning more about SCAN’s expansion into two new dietetic practice groups? Read about each group and check out the FAQs to see how the new DPGs will meet the needs of members: https://www.scandpg.org/scan/new-dpg-launch

Introducing SHPN and CV-WELL - SCAN SHPN will be a network of nutrition practitioners working with athletes at all levels and collaborating coaches, athletic trainers, and other sports medicine practitioners to optimize human performance and holistic health for a lifetime. The DPG will leverage the integration of nutrition, exercise s...

SCAN is expanding into two new dietetic practice groups: Cardiovascular Health and Well-being DPG and Sports and Human Performance Nutrition DPG. Now through June 15, Academy members who renew SCAN membership or join either CV-WELL or SHPN get the benefits of both groups for the price of one for the 2021-22 membership year! Get more information: https://www.scandpg.org/new-dpg-launch/new-dpg-infographic

Why Join SHPN / CV-Well? - SCAN

Have you heard the exciting news? SCAN is expanding into two new dietetic practice groups! Learn more about the Cardiovascular Health and Well-being DPG and the Sports and Human Performance Nutrition DPG: https://www.scandpg.org/new-dpg-launch/new-dpg-infographic

Why Join SHPN / CV-Well? - SCAN

We love hearing what YOU love about the sessions! Today is the final day for this years virtual event, but don’t forget that if you registered to attend, you have access to session recordings for THREE months!

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Say bye to chicken and broccoli 🥦

Today is the last day of the Symposium! On Wednesday and gave a wonderful presentation about how to grow as a sports dietitian. BUT they also emphasized the need for sports dietitians throughout the world.

Whether you are just discovering fitness or are a professional athlete - nutrition is essential. If you have any questions about how to improve performance, reach out to a local dietitian. We are your performance nutrition experts and will do whatever it takes to help you succeed in your sports career.

Day 1 of is in the books! We hosted a variety of session from leading experts in the performance nutrition field, including this one! If you’re attending, what was your favorite Day 1 session?

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I’m attending my 4th session for the Sports, Cardiovascular, and Wellness Nutrition Symposium, and I am learning SO MUCH!!

From starting a sports nutrition practice, to digital twins, to the microbiome and performance, and now lessons in performance nutrition from warfighters ( expect to see some info from this), I am having the BEST TIME!!!

There is so much that a registered dietitian can do for you and your athletic performance that trainers and health coaches just can’t do because they aren’t qualified.

A registered dietitian can tailor a program to you based on your needs rather than giving you a one size fits all program.

Have you heard the exciting news?

In the spirit of SCAN’s longstanding record of innovation and dynamic solutions, SCAN is expanding into two new DPGs: Sports and Human Performance Nutrition and Cardiovascular Health and Well-being.

Sports and Human Performance Nutrition:
SHPN will be a network of nutrition practitioners working with athletes at all levels and collaborating coaches, athletic trainers, and other sports medicine practitioners to optimize human performance and holistic health for a lifetime. The DPG will leverage the integration of nutrition, exercise science, and technology to set industry standards, provide continuing education, and prepare the next generation of cutting edge professionals. SHPN will deliver content tailored for human performance in sports as well as military, tactical and performing arts, and those who are first responders.

Cardiovascular Health and Well-being:
CV-WELL will equip members to be the experts promoting the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease through nutrition, well-being and physical activity. This DPG will provide in-depth content in cardiovascular nutrition and well-being so members can optimize their work in diverse health arenas such as clinical settings, corporate well-being, community nutrition, private practice, research, education and government.

For the 2021-2022 membership year, current SCAN members who join either SHPN or CV-WELL will enjoy the benefits of both practice groups.

Learn more: https://www.scandpg.org/new-dpg-launch

You can also register for this week’s virtual while you’re there!

This next spotlight is on a topic that’s always highly requested, relevant, and evolving: supplements!

Eric Rawson, PhD, FACSM, CSCS will present “Dietary Supplements and Performance: Do We Have a Consensus?” 
 
Recently, the International Olympic Committee assembled a panel of experts to review the use of dietary supplements by elite athletes. Comprehensive review articles were prepared and distributed to the panel before the meeting to encourage discussion.

After several days of dialogue, the group concluded that dietary supplements are a legitimate part of an athlete’s preparation and can play a role in supporting health, training, and performance in competition.

These conclusions were published in a consensus statement that summarized the evidence that supports dietary supplement use in elite athletes. The consensus statement is available as an open access manuscript in both the British Journal of Sports Medicine and the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. Comprehensive review articles developed by the panel members are also available open access in the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism. 
 
Learning Objectives: 
• Identify dietary supplements that may improve athletic performance. 
• Identify issues related to dietary supplement safety in athletes. 
• Describe the hierarchy of evidence used to establish good practice for dietary supplements. 

Visit our website to learn more and view the full agenda. The early bird rates have gone up but you can still register for the 2021 Virtual !

What’s new for the virtual 2021 ?

Rapid Fire Sessions!

This is a way to fit even more experts and topics into our agenda. These sessions will provide a targeted focus on a specific performance nutrition topic, hosted by leading experts in the field.

Here are the four sessions:

1. Have We Revolutionized Sports Nutrition? What's Old, What's New with Nancy Clark MS, RD, CSSD

2. Stoke the Fire: Fueling Firefighters for Optimal Health and Performance with Brittany Johnson, PhD, RDN, CSSD, CPT

3. Practical Considerations: Using DXA for Body Composition Analysis with Kasuen Mauldin PhD, RD

4. The New Age of Dietary Assessment: Innovations, Challenges, and Opportunities with Dina Aronson MS, RD

Head over to the website to learn more, see the full agenda, and most importantly: get registered so you don’t miss this!

For our next speaker spotlight, we turn our sights to Robert A. Huggins, PhD, LAT, ATC. He will be presenting the session “Developing and Implementing Heat Polices and Hydration Protocols for Athletes”

Dr. Huggins is the Assistant Research Professor, President of Research & Athlete Performance and Safety, Korey Stringer Institute and Director, ATLAS Project.

While many organizations indicate that they have heat policies and hydration protocols in place, many lack the recommended evidence-based components of these heat and hydration policies and protocols. While many members of the sports medicine team (athletic trainers, sports dietitians, strength and conditioning coaches, and physicians) develop, adopt, and implement these policies and protocols with their athletes and teams, many organizations and individual athletes still struggle with avoiding heat illness and optimizing hydration status.

Therefore, the purpose(s) of this presentation are to:
1️⃣review the evidence-based medicine best practices & policies for avoiding heat illness and optimizing fluid replacement
2️⃣quantify heat stress limits
and normal fluid and electrolyte needs
3️⃣determine when an athlete’s current heatacclimatization status and fluid/electrolyte replacement plan is inadequate, and
4️⃣determine when heat acclimation coupled with advanced fluid and electrolyte testing are required for
optimizing performance.

Attendees will be able to:
- Identify the components of a heat policy and comprehensive hydration protocol
- Measure and interpret the level of heat stress/acclimatization an athlete has and the amount of fluids an athlete needs.
- Determine whether an athlete is heat acclimatized and has normal or abnormal fluid and electrolyte needs.
- Produce an intervention plan for an athlete who requires heat acclimatization and increased fluid and electrolyte needs.
- Distinguish when traditional intervention plans are inadequate and evaluate the need for more advanced physiological athlete specific testing.

Registration is open now, so head over to the website to learn more!

Thank you to all our members who participated in this year’s elections! Congratulations to all candidates for campaigning efforts and their dedication to serve the field of dietetics.


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The Nominating Committees of the Academy and Commission on Dietetic Registration have reported the outcome of the 2021 national election. These individuals have been elected from among many excellent candidates: https://sm.eatright.org/election

The committees thank you for your support of the nomination and election processes.

🔊 LAST CALL! Today is the last day to get the discounted EARLY BIRD rate for the SCAN SYMPOSIUM! 🙌🏼 Hundreds of you have already taken advantage, but if you’ve been waiting, TODAY IS THE DAY! 

🔊Head over to the website now to register— https://www.scandpg.org/scan/scan-events/scan-symposia/2021-symposium/2021-registration

IMPORTANT UPDATE! Early bird rates end tomorrow! 2/17 is the deadline for a discounted registration rate for — don’t wait, register now before the price goes up!
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registration is now open! Don't wait to take advantage of the early bird rate (until 2/17) and join us for a world-class virtual event.

Find more information here: https://www.scandpg.org/scan/scan-events/scan-symposia/2021-symposium

See the agenda, speakers, and information about networking and other engaging activities woven throughout the schedule. We hope to "see" you there!

We’d like to introduce you to our next speaker in this Spotlight Series for the virtual 2021 !

Dr. Peter Peeling, Associate Professor at the University of Western Australia, will present “Iron and the Athlete: Key Considerations and Nutrition Strategies”

Peter received his PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2009, where he investigated exercise-induced mechanisms relevant to iron deficiency in endurance athletes. This work highlighted the potential influence of the iron-regulatory hormone, hepcidin, on iron metabolism. Peter has since worked as an applied sports physiologist within the Australian National Sports Institute Network, and he currently holds the role of Research Director at the Western Australian institute of Sport. Peter is also an Associate Professor in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia, where he teaches and researches in applied physiology, with a focus on sports nutrition and the iron requirements of athletes.

Please visit our website to view more information about and register to attend. The price goes up when early bird registration closes on 2/17!

Here’s another session spotlight from the upcoming 2021 !

Carrissa Tomas, MS, RDN, CNSC, Captain in the United States Air Force, will present the session “Embedding Nutrition Professionals to Optimize Health and Performances of Military Personnel”

The Air Force has a long history of providing integrated support in the form of embedded flight surgeons and medical technicians, but the use of nutrition professionals on the teams is a much newer concept. This presentation will discuss the role of nutrition professionals on the Air Force’s new initiative, the base Operational Support Team.  The intent of this new multidisciplinary team is to improve military mission success and enhance human weapon system performance by using data to provide targeted, time-limited preventative interventions for Air Force line units.

This session will summarize the embedding process, data collected and successful interventions trialed across five different units, as well as highlight lessons learned as this program expands Air Force-wide.

OBJECTIVES  
1. Recognize the role that nutrition professionals play in optimizing mission and human performance.  
2. Describe the process of embedding within Air Force line units as part of the Operational Support Team. 
3. Explain strategies to achieve buy-in, nutrition interventions applied, and lessons learned in standing up a nutrition program for specific populations.

This presentation will emphasize the importance of registered dietitian nutritionists on multidisciplinary teams to promote health and optimize performance. RDNs can benefit from learning lessons from the roll out of a new program and learning about opportunities arising for military nutrition as they transition to calibrated and preventative care.  

Don’t miss it, register today!

For our next speaker spotlight, we are introducing Chris McGlory, PhD!

Dr. McGlory is an Assistant Professor at Queen’s University. He will present “The Role of Omega-3 Fatty Acids in Skeletal Muscle Anabolism”

The aim of his research is to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms underpinning the adaptive response of skeletal muscle to exercise training and disuse.

He is particularly interested in developing nutritional interventions to minimize a loss of muscle mass and/or function in a variety of settings, such as that which occurs in response to immobilization and surgery. He is currently examining the efficacy of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid and essential amino acid supplementation to influence muscle mass, protein synthesis, and mitochondrial function in response to exercise training and inactivity.

He specializes in the use of stable isotropic tracers to track skeletal muscle protein turnover during periods of fasting, feeding, training, and immobilization. His work also employs a range of specialist methodologies such as deuterium labeling of proteins and magnetic resonance imaging, as we as a variety of molecular biology techniques for measurement of enzyme activity, protein expression, and post-translational modification.

See Dr. Chris McGlory’s session details and the full agenda on the symposium website: https://www.scandpg.org/scan/scan-events/scan-symposia/2021-symposium

Have you heard the exciting news?

In the spirit of SCAN’s longstanding record of innovation and dynamic solutions, SCAN is expanding into two new DPGs: Sports and Human Performance Nutrition and Cardiovascular Health and Well-being.

Sports and Human Performance Nutrition:
SHPN will be a network of nutrition practitioners working with athletes at all levels and collaborating coaches, athletic trainers, and other sports medicine practitioners to optimize human performance and holistic health for a lifetime. The DPG will leverage the integration of nutrition, exercise science, and technology to set industry standards, provide continuing education, and prepare the next generation of cutting edge professionals. SHPN will deliver content tailored for human performance in sports as well as military, tactical and performing arts, and those who are first responders.

Cardiovascular Health and Well-being:
CV-WELL will equip members to be the experts promoting the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease through nutrition, well-being and physical activity. This DPG will provide in-depth content in cardiovascular nutrition and well-being so members can optimize their work in diverse health arenas such as clinical settings, corporate well-being, community nutrition, private practice, research, education and government.

For the 2021-2022 membership year, current SCAN members who join either SHPN or CV-WELL will enjoy the benefits of both practice groups.

Learn more: https://www.scandpg.org/new-dpg-launch

Who misses networking with other like-minded colleagues and talking all about sports nutrition and human performance? We sure do – it's been way too long! That's why, we can't wait for this year's SCAN Symposium!

Session tracks will focus on:
– Business & Practice
– Nutrition Intervention Strategies
– Performance & Recovery
– Supplements & Micronutrients
– Technology

If you're already registered, share the track (s) you're most excited for in the comments below. If you're not registered yet, get on over to the SCAN DPG website and register today. The Early Bird Rate ends February 17!

REGISTER NOW: https://www.scandpg.org/scan/scan-events/scan-symposia/2021-symposium

Have you voted yet? It's important to make your voice heard as both an Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics member, but as a SCAN member too! We have several candidates on the ballot this year who are members of SCAN.

There is still time to get your votes in before elections close on 2/15, but don't wait! Click below to access the ballot: https://www.eatrightpro.org/leadership/nominations-and-elections/national-election

Our next speaker spotlight for the 2021 is Nick Barringer, PhD, RD, CSSD, CSCS

Presentation Title:
From the Battlefield to the Playing Field: Lessons in Performance Nutrition from Warfighters

Nick Barringer is an expert on nutrition and performance for the tactical athlete. Nick currently researches and serves as an assistant professor at the United States Military Academy. Previously while working at the United States Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine he researched Warfighter nutritional requirements in differing environments to include deployed Special Operators. Prior to that, he taught performance nutrition at the Army-Baylor Graduate Program in Nutrition. Nick served in the 75th Ranger Regiment as a member of the Ranger Athlete Warrior (RAW) program where he oversaw the nutrition and aspects of the physical training of Rangers. Nick received his undergraduate degree in dietetics from the University of Georgia and his doctorate in kinesiology from Texas A&M.

Nick is passionate about improving nutrition and performance in tactical athletes and has the unique perspective of a researcher, teacher, and practitioner who has gone through physically demanding courses such as Ranger School, Survival Evasion Resistance Escape (SERE), Airborne, Air Assault as well as having deployed to both Iraq and Afghanistan so he best understands both the academic and applied demands of the tactical athlete. Nick has presented at both national and international conferences on tactical athlete nutrition and performance and his research has appeared in multiple media outlets such as Science Daily and Men’s Journal.

To see Nick's session and the others on our agenda, please visit the SCAN Symposium website, where you can register to attend: https://www.scandpg.org/scan/scan-events/scan-symposia/2021-symposium

We're excited to kick off our Speaker & Session Spotlights for the virtual 2021 !

First up, we're highlighting one of our Keynote sessions. Neil Johnson will be presenting on:

1. The history of Sports Analytics
2. Looking forward in Sports Analytics space
3. Convergence of nutrition and analytics in sports

Neil Johnson, MBA, is a sports analytics developer at ESPN. He has been with the company since 2016. Neil is a part of the Sports Analytics group at ESPN where they produce statistical models such BPI, FPI, and NBA Real Plus-Minus and works directly on player tracking data from the NBA, the NFL, and other leagues. Additionally, Neil’s interests include pushing sports computer vision research and looking at ways to make emerging and complicated technologies more accessible
and widespread.

Learn more about this session and others, and get registered, here: https://www.scandpg.org/scan/scan-events/scan-symposia/2021-symposium

It's time for another SCAN Symposium Session Highlight! Kelly Jones, owner of Kelly Jones Nutrition and Angie Asche, owner of Eleat Sports Nutrition, LLC are teaming up to present, "Success In Sports Nutrition: Expanding Services & Increasing Profit!

If you've been thinking about starting a sports nutrition practice, need some tips on how to grow your practice or are looking for new career opportunities within the field, you won't want to miss this session! Check out the entire schedule and get registered today – https://www.scandpg.org/scan/scan-events/scan-symposia/2021-symposium/2021-schedule

Big news! The official schedule for the virtual 2021 is up on the website now. Take a look to see the amazing sessions we have planned!

In the coming weeks we'll be spotlighting the speakers and their respective sessions, as well as other exciting announcements for SCAN Symposium. Get registered before 2/17 to take advantage of the early bird rate!

Learn More: https://www.scandpg.org/scan/scan-events/scan-symposia/2021-symposium

SCAN 2020 Symposium The Revolutionizing Sports Nutrition 2021 SCAN Virtual Symposium will inspire attendees to explore, challenge and discuss evidence-based nutrition practice and policy.

💪We’re getting closer to the 37th annual SCAN Symposium! Who’s excited? We have a great lineup of speakers, including Neil Johnson, MBA, Sports Analytics Developer for ESPN.

Neil’s presentation will share the history of sports analytics, some insight into the future of the sports analytics space and the convergence of nutrition and analytics in sport. Can’t wait to learn more about this topic!

If you haven’t registered yet, get over the SCAN website and do it now. Early bird rate ends February 17 2021. Hope to see you there, virtually! – https://www.scandpg.org/scan/scan-events/scan-symposia/2021-symposium/2021-registration

ATTENTION: Dietitians, Nutrition Students, Athletic Trainers, Coaches, Strength & Conditioning Specialists and anyone who works with athletes or is interested in a career in sports nutrition – Registration for the 37th Annual SCAN Symposium is OPEN!

This sports-focused symposium is a one of its kind event with speakers ready to share cutting edge sports nutrition information. Session tracks will focus on business & practice nutrition intervention strategies, sports performance and recovery, supplements and micronutrients & technology.

PLEASE SHARE w/anyone that works with athletes or may be interested in a career in & Wellness! Register now to get the early bird rate! – https://www.scandpg.org/scan/scan-events/scan-symposia/2021-symposium/2021-registration