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A Pu b l i c a t i o n o f t h e C a n a d i a n N u t r i t i o n S o c i e t y | A Pu b l i c a t i o n d e l a S o c i é t é c a n a d i e n n e d e n u t r i t i o n
2009-2011 Advisory Council
President’s Message
PRESIDENT Leah Gramlich, MD, FRCPC PRESIDENT E LECT Katherine Gray-Donald, PhD VP - H EALTH PROFESSIONALS Maitreyi Raman, MD, FRCPC VP - R ESEARCH Robert Bertolo, PhD TREASURER Janis Randall Simpson, RD, PhD S ECRETARY Lindsay Robinson, RD, PhD AWARDS CHAIR Guylaine Ferland, PhD ETHICS CHAIR Joanne Penson-Boucher, RD M EMBERSHIP CO-CHAIRS Lesley Moisey, MSc, RD Pauline Darling, PhD COMMUNICATIONS CO-CHAIRS Janet Stadnyk, RD David Ma, PhD COUNCILLORS Johane Allard, MD, FRCPC Steve Brooks, PhD John Drover, MD, FACS, FRCSC Donald Duerksen, MD, FRCPC Alison Duncan, RD, PhD Terry Graham, PhD Jim House, PhD Cyril Kendall, PhD Mary L’Abbe, PhD Debbie O’Connor, PhD, RD Flora Wang, MSc. Gord Zello, PhD EX-OFFICIO M EMBERS Tom Clandinin, PhD Peter Fischer, PhD Khush Jeejeebhoy, MD, FRCPC Peter Jones, PhD Claude Roy, MD, FRCPC
am pleased to welcome you to one of the first fruits of the merger between CSCN and CSNS – the first issue of Nutrition Forum de Nutrition under the CNS banner. This semi-annual publication is an excellent compliment to the Members’ Update that you have been receiving since late last year – while the Update is information from the Executive to you, the Forum provides you with an opportunity to share news with one another. Dr. Gordon Zello’s Message from the Editor provides more on this; I would like to encourage any of you who have news to contact Dr. Zello with a request to insert it in the next issue.
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We have spoken of ourselves as a community of individuals interested in nutrition. The Forum allows us to truly function as one. Think of it as an electronic or print “water cooler”, where we can all meet to share our triumphs, knowledge and puzzles. In a way, it is an extension of the networking that takes place at our Annual Meeting. I would particularly like to encourage those of you who are clinicians to participate in the Forum. There is always a good deal happening in the clinical community, and the Forum is another opportunity to share those events and occurrences. If you are interested in participating this way, we are looking for clinical correspondents – please contact Dr. Zello or the CNS Office for more information. Beyond that, it is a chance to learn about events in the academic and research “side” of CNS as well. I hope you enjoy this issue, and find it as useful as I have. I am also looking forward to seeing you at our inaugural Annual Meeting in Edmonton, June 3-5. Yours in good nutrition,
Leah Gramlich, MD, FRCPC
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