Dear New CNM Member:

WELCOME to the Clinical Nutrition Management (CNM) Dietetic Practice Group (DPG #44).  We are thrilled to have you as a member of this leadership group.  The CNM DPG is a dynamic, visionary group of professionals who are dedicated to identifying and addressing best practices related to clinical nutrition and management practices that are essential for successfully leading clinical nutrition services into the 21st century health care system.  Your membership in CNM brings with it valuable member benefits.  The benefits are listed below, along with information that you can use to access services we provide.

• CNM Newletter - Future Dimensions in Clinical Nutrition Management:  You will receive quarterly issues of our newsletter beginning with the Summer 2009 issue.  Back issues of the newsletter can be found at the members only secion of the CNM Website.
• CNM Web Page:  The CNM Web site can be found at http://www.cnmdpg.org/
• CNM Electronic Mailing List (EML):  An on-line forum that you can use to discuss nutrition management issues, obtain quick assistance with a problem or get insight into new references and Web sites.  To subscribe:
  1. Go to http://lists.my180.net/mailman/listinfo
  2. Click on CNM
  3. Go to "Subscribing to CNM and follow the instructions.  Contat Nancy Farmer-Dziak  at nfdziak@metrohealth.org if you need help
• Professional Development:  Please plan on joining us for the following event:
• CNM Symposium in San Francisco, California - April 10-13, 2010.
  Prioritize this symposium into your budget and add it to your calendar
  Participate in this energizing retreat with over 300 clinical nutrition managers from around the country.
  

CNM has many opportunities for member involvement.  Our robust strategic plan includes multiple committees in which you can contribute and establish new collegial relationships.  Among those committees are:  Marketing/Public Relations, Professional Membership Development, Newsletter, Legislative and Reimbursement, and Research/Quality Management.  Food and Nutrition Informatics is our newest subunit.  These committees are responsible for implementing specific plans to reach our overall goals and objectives.  For example, the Food and Nutrition Informatics subunit's goal is to promote use of information technology into clinical practice and management, making clinical nutrition practice visible in patient care systems, processes, and outcomes.

Once again, welcome to the CNM Dietetic Practice Group!  Please let me hear from you throughout this next year (June 1, 2009 to May 31, 2010), as your practice issues are important to CNM.

Mary Jane Rogalski
2009-2010 Chair, Clinical Nutrition Management
mrogard@charter.net
413/794-4954/ (Fax) 413/794-4949