UAMS Preventive Nutrition Project

Project Description     
Abstract     Project Aims

Introduction
The Nutrition Academic Award (NAA) is a 5-year grant awarded to successful applicant schools of medicine and osteopathy throughout the U.S. The award was developed in 1997 by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) to encourage development or enhancement of medical school curricula to increase opportunities for students, house staff, faculty, and practicing physicians to learn nutrition principles and clinical practice skills with an emphasis on preventing cardiovascular diseases, obesity, diabetes, and other chronic diseases. A second objective was to provide a curricular guide, training modules, and other teaching and assessment tools for dissemination to other medical schools as well as other health care professional schools. The first ten NAA awards were funded in 1998 by NHLBI in response to an RFA. NHLBI funded nine more grants in 2000 and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) funded two. UAMS received their award in April 2000.