It’s the start of the new year and we at ACHM send our best wishes to all students and health practitioners that have supported our programs in the past years. There has been a lot of interest regards our 2010 programs - so read on for more details of what’s happening this year:

ANNUAL NUTRITION MEDICINE IN HEALTH & DISEASE WORKSHOPS 2010

The ACHM Annual Nutrition Medicine in Health & Disease 3-day Workshop will again be held on the Queen's Birthday Weekend in June 2010:

• Saturday 12th June - Causal Factors in Disease
• Sunday 13th June - Nutritional Assessment
• Monday 14th June - Disease Management

WORKSHOP FEES

Conference Program Registration Fees

• 3 - day workshop program: $2145.00
• 3 - day workshop program (Early Bird): $1930.00
• Student & Repeat Attendees: $999.00

You can also choose to attend one or more of the three day programs

• For complete fee options click here

Participant Bonus

Participants who attend the full 3 day program will receive the NutriCheck Assessment Program FREE of charge.

This program assists practitioners to perform a nutritional analysis that informs you of a patient’s dysfunctional metabolism, nutrient requirements and advised diet prescription.

The program’s diet prescription section is currently undergoing an upgrade, to provide more targeted diet formulation.

This NutriCheck program currently retails at $1925.00

ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS

These workshops have achieved an excellent reputation as a research-based systematised clinical training program in the role and clinical application of Nutrition Medicine to maintain health and remediate disease.

The workshops are designed for medical and other primary healthcare practitioners to enhance clinical knowledge and skills in utilising diet and nutrient therapy in daily practice.

Prior attendees have thoroughly appreciated the systematised training format, scientific depth and clinical focus of these workshops, and many participants return several times to glean further detail of the science and clinical skills presented.

THE PRESENTERS

The workshop presenters are selected from a panel of highly qualified, experienced healthcare practitioners and clinical researchers.

The program coordinator is:

Dr Melvyn A Sydney-Smith. KGSJ. MBBS, PhD, FACNEM, Adjunct Professor (RMIT University), Adjunct Associate Professor (Southern Cross University).

For 2010, the invited presenters are:

• Dr Gary Deed
• Dr Karel Hromek
• Dr Tini Gruner
• Dr Henry Butt
• Mr Henry Osiecki
• Dr James Read

view the full workshop progam.

THE VENUE

The workshops will be held at the Holiday Inn Hotel on the Gold Coast ~ where all previous workshops have been held ~ just 1 block from the beach and right in the middle of Surfers Paradise. You can make your accommodation bookings by contacting Marilyn Strauss, who can arrange your accommodation either at the Holiday Inn or at more economical venues.

WORKSHOP ENQUIRIES

Please contact Marilyn Strauss for all fee and accommodation enquiries:

Email: marilynstrauss@e-cbd.com | Telephone: 07 55313810

MASTER OF NUTRITION MEDICINE DEGREE PROGRAM

WHAT’S HAPPENING

As many of you know, following the RMIT University Governance Board decision to cease all external service providers, ACHM’s master’s degree program is now being concluded, and we are “teaching out” the remaining 20 students of the original 60 students that enrolled.

In the past year, we have held discussions with several Australian universities regards placement of the program into their postgraduate curriculum.

Currently, two universities have expressed an interest in hosting the degree program. One university is particularly appreciative of the academic level and integrity of the program - not surprising given that the course materials have been previously accredited with both UNE (Armidale) and RMIT University (Melbourne). In depth discussions are proceeding with this university and the current degree program is undergoing remodelling to expand into two flexible and integrated master degree programs:

• Master of Nutrition Medicine (Clinical) and
• Master of Nutrition Medicine (Research)

We are excited by this course evolution and, though no final agreements have yet been reached, discussions are proceeding well, albeit slowly.

We are unable to name an exact starting date, but have requested a mid-2010 launch, because of the large number of students awaiting enrolment.

Anyway, that’s all the news we can publicise for now - we do have further exciting developments in the pipeline - but those belong to a future newsletter.

We wish you all a happy and adventitious 2010.

Regards and best wishes,
Caroline & Mel