title: Optimizing integration of nutrition into patient care through physician leadership.
abstract: This presentation addresses the importance of using standardized terminology to describe the physician who specializes in clinical nutrition, definitions used by the 3 nutrition boards to describe the physician who is specializing in the field of clinical nutrition, differentiating "competence" from "expertise" in medical nutrition, defining the functions of medical nutrition team members, and describing the unique role of physician nutritionists in new medical nutrition teams.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medicine, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, 750 North Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. rkushner@northwestern.edu
authors.forename: Robert F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Kushner
authors.forename: Toby
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: Refaat
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hegazi
authors.forename: Gordon
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Marik
authors.forename: Russell
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Merritt
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D052756:Nutritional Sciences / Q000193:education*; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010820:Physicians; D011361:Professional Competence; D009626:Terminology as Topic