UAMS Preventive Nutrition Project

Presentations and Publications

Recent Presentations:

Kahn RF.  Continuing Medical Education on Obesity.  Working Group on Clinical Education Needs for Obesity Identification, Prevention and Treatment, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD, May 2005.

Kahn RF.  Continuing Medical Education on Nutrition and Obesity.  American Society of Clinical Nutrition, Medical Nutrition Education Workshop.  Experimental Biology 2005, San Diego, CA, April 2005.

Kahn RF.  Integrating Nutrition Education across the Medical Student Curriculum.  ATPM Teaching Prevention Institute 2004:  Approaches to teaching obesity and diabetes prevention in the classroom and the community.  New Orleans, LA.  March 25, 2004.

Publications:

Wheeler JG, Young K, Kahn RF, Vannatta PM.  Arkansas Clinician's Guide to Weight Problems in Children and Adolescents.  Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society.  101(2):80-1, 2004.

Wheeler JG, Kahn RF, Garner CB, Vannatta PM.  Obesity in Arkansas:  From Contemplation to Action.  The 2002 Arkansas Preventive Nutrition and Physical Activity.  Journal of the Arkansas Medical Society, 100(8):268-272, 2004.

Kahn R, O’Sullivan P, Vannatta P.  Supermarket Tour: The effect of presentation mode on nutrition knowledge and attitudes.  Family Medicine 35(10):721-25, 2003.

Abstracts:

Kahn RF, O’Sullivan P, Vannatta P, Hakkak R: Supermarket Tour: The effect of presentation mode on nutrition knowledge and attitudes. Experimental Biology 2002, April 2002.

Hakkak R, Kahn RF, Vannatta PM, O'Sullivan PS, Wheeler JG, Carroll PA.  How are 3rd year medical students using a booklet to guide cardiovascular risk and nutrition assessments in practice?  Experimental Biology 2004, April 18, 2004.

Hakkak R, Kahn RF, Vannatta PM, O'Sullivan PS, Wheeler JG, Carroll PA.   Development of cardiovascular disease and nutrition assessment booklet for 3rd year medical students in a family practice clerkship.  Experimental Biology 2004, April 18, 2004.

Carroll PA, Hakkak R, Kahn R, Vannatta P, Wheeler G.  Nutritional curricula development for first year medical students in an interdisciplinary training with dietetic interns.  American Dietetic Association.  Food and Nutrition Conference and Expo 2004.  Journal of the American Dietetic Association 104(8 Suppl 2):A-36, 2004.

Carroll PA, O'Sullivan PS, Wheeler, JG.  Using a video Problem-Based Learning on adolescent obesity:  A comparison of dietetic interns and medical students.  American Dietetic Association.  Food and Nutrition Conference 7 and Expo 2005.  October 2005.