Advance and Enhance the Unique Role of the RDN in Today's and Tomorrow's Obesity Care Continuum
Date: June 4
Time: 11 a.m - 12:30 p.m. (Central time)
As the landscape of comprehensive obesity care increasingly includes obesity medications, registered dietitian nutritionists are uniquely positioned to play an important role in assisting clients with long term obesity and health management.
In this webinar three speakers will present on disparate topics that all relate to how RDNs can advance and enhance their unique role in comprehensive obesity care.
Speakers will address levels of practice for the RDN delivering obesity care, creative and expansive ways to advance the role of the RDN in long term weight loss management and obesity care and the Academy's efforts to secure coverage of MNT for obesity.
The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics Foundation is pleased to offer a second three-part webinar series focused on the latest science on Obesity Medications and the impact on advancing nutrition and dietetics practice. This webinar series is made possible through a sponsorship from Eli Lilly to the Academy Foundation.
This webinar does not provide CPE credit.
Learning Objectives
- Detail the importance of advocacy for the coverage of MNT for obesity, comprehensive obesity care including coverage for obesity medications.
- Describe how RDNs can advance their role to practice at the top of their scope within their clinical setting.
- Collaborate with healthcare provider colleagues to: implement medication titration algorithms, assess psychological/behavioral aspects of clients considering use of/using obesity medications and counsel on physical activity.
- Assist RDNs in exploring their evolving and advancing role in comprehensive obesity care and weight loss maintenance in the era of obesity medications.
Kelly Horton, MS, RDN
Speaker
Kelly D. Horton, MS, RDN is the Senior Vice President, Public Policy and Government Relations at the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Kelly oversees the Academy's public policy agenda and advocacy efforts that promote health and reduce the burden of chronic disease through evidence-based nutrition services and interventions. Her role supports the pursuit of legislative and regulatory policies that expand access to nutrition care.
Her team's portfolio of programs includes those impacting consumer protection and licensure and healthcare policy and payment. Kelly is a high performing executive level leader and nationally recognized food, nutrition, hunger, food safety and agriculture policy and program expert.
Her experience includes launching a novel nutrition intervention which grew into the basis of what today is known as the Food as/is Medicine movement and creating the Sustainable Food Policy Alliance – a food industry collaboration advocating for policies that improve people's lives and protect the planet.
Maureen Chomko, RDN, CDCES
Speaker
Maureen Chomko has worked as a dietitian and diabetes education specialist in outpatient primary care clinics since 2012, first with the University of Washington Neighborhood Clinics. Since 2016, she has been working for the nonprofit clinic system Neighborcare Health, where she assists in complex diabetes management and counseling for underserved populations within a Federally Qualified Health Center.
Maureen has authored chapters on nutrition and lifestyle management of type 2 diabetes for the ADA, ADCES and the Academy. Maureen assisted in the development of client education materials for ADA and the Academy. She is the co-editor of the ADA Guide to Nutrition Therapy for Diabetes, 2025 ed.
She's been involved with planning the clinical nutrition programming at the ADA's Scientific sessions and was an invited speaker at this conference in 2022, 2024 and 2025. She has also been a speaker recently at the Weight Management DPG and Diabetes DPG virtual symposiums addressing the topic of practicing at the top of our scope related to RDN management of incretin-based hormone therapy.
Maureen is working on her Master of Science at the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy at Tufts University in Boston.
James Hill, PhD
Speaker
Dr. Hill is Professor in the Department of Nutrition Sciences in the UAB School of Health Professions. He is one of the world's foremost experts in obesity.
For over 40 years he has been conducting research to understand how obesity develops, health consequences of obesity and strategies to prevent and treat obesity. He has published over 650 peer reviewed papers and multiple reviews and chapters in the area.
Dr. Hill has been continuously funded by NIH since 1981 and currently serves as director and principal investigator for the UAB Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC). He previously served as director of the Colorado NORC and was the founding Executive Director of the University of Colorado Anschutz Health and Wellness Center.
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