This week’s blog post features Mark Kern, PhD, RD, CSSD Professor
of Exercise and Nutritional Sciences at
San Diego State University. His
presentation is titled: “The Body of Evidence: Evaluating Research to Enhance
and Sustain your Practice.” This
presentation will describe the importance of evaluating various kinds of
research studies including cell culture, animal studies, descriptive
epidemiology, analytic epidemiology, and clinical human trials with an emphasis
on using all kinds of research to evaluate the total body of the evidence. Four
studies in various research categories will be used as teaching examples. One
study will be from each of SCAN's 4 signature areas: sports, cardiovascular
health, wellness and disordered eating/eating disorders. Strengths and
limitations of each study will be highlighted as will the importance using the
scientific literature as the basis for enhancing the practice of
dietetics.
