63RD NDAP ANNUAL CONVENTION SLATED ON FEBRUARY 21-24

The country’s largest accredited organization of healthcare professionals in the nutrition and dietetics fields, the Nutritionist-Dietitians Association of the Philippines (NDAP), will again lead another series of scientific sessions that aims to address the most pressing issues impacting the profession in the upcoming 63rd NDAP Annual Convention set February 2124, 2018 at the SMX Lanang Premier Convention Center, Davao City.

Celebrating this year’s theme, “Road to Excellence: Bringing Education and Nutrition Together,” the event reinforces NDAP’s steadfast mission to reach out to its community of practitioners and various stakeholders, this time also focusing on communicating the timely relevance of disseminating factual, reliable information on the latest health and wellness practices and products in this time of misinformation and rampant “fake news.”

According to Ms. Eloisa E. Villaraza, Vice President of NDAP, the organization is adamant in using digital technology to fight off false and misleading online content by spreading truthful, science-backed published information on health, wellness and nutrition.

Offering valuable insights on critical issues and the role of nutrition and dietetics professionals in today’s fastpaced and technology-driven world, among the invited key speakers are Dr. Esther F. Myers (PhD, RDN, FAND), Dr. Chwang Leh-chii (President of the Asian Federation of Dietetic Association, Taiwan), Dr. Milton Stokes (Registered Dietitian/Nutritionist and former owner of One Source Nutrition, LLC), Beatriz Dykes (PhD, RDN, LD, FADA, FAND), Chris Vogliano (MS, RD/ sustainability consultant, speaker, faculty and researcher of Massey University, Kent State University), Dr. Nik Shanita Safii (Associate Professor Dietetics Program, Faculty of Health Sciences, National University of Malaysia), Professor Yuan Kun Lee (Associate Professor, Department of Microbiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore), Shigeru Yamamoto, Ph.D., R.D (Professor of Jumonji University, Director of Asian Nutrition and Food Culture Research Center), and Prof. Allan B. de Guzman, PhD (Dean, College of Education, University of Santo Tomas).

For more information, please e-mail: secretariat@ndap.org.ph .