From awareness to action – solutions to facilitate nutrition self-management in the community
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2025
Time: 12:00 - 13:00 ET
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This webinar is brought to you by CMTF as part of Canadian Malnutrition Awareness Week™ October 6 - 10, 2025 "Unveiling Solutions"
This webinar is presented in English / Ce webinaire sera présenté en Anglais.
Webinar description:
Malnutrition in community-dwelling adults is associated with frailty, loss of independence, hospitalization, prolonged hospitals stays and hospital readmissions. Identification of people at nutrition risk is the first step to mitigation but screening in primary care settings is uncommon. To increase access, Alberta Health Services has launched a web-based screening tool suitable for use by older adults. In this presentation, Lisa Martin will describe the AHS Screen-14 platform, research on its usability, and preliminary results from community-based screening.
Hospitalization is another opportunity to identify people with nutrition risk, many of whom are discharged to their homes without resolution of that risk. Successful self-management of nutrition risk after hospitalization requires tailored support and strategies that address barriers to success. In this second segment, Pamela Klassen will present results of recent research with patients and providers revealing barriers to successful self-management of nutrition risk after discharge and ideas for patient-informed solutions.
Learning Objectives:
By the end of this webinar the audience will be able to:
- Explain why understanding one's own nutritional risks is crucial for taking effective health action
- Identify at least one tool to raise individual self-awareness of nutrition risk among community members
- Understand patient and caregiver barriers to acting on awareness to improve nutritional health
- Identify patient-informed solutions to support self-management of nutrition risk in the community
Speakers:
Lisa Martin, PhD, RD, Research & Evaluation Lead, Alberta Health Services
Pamela Klassen PhD, RD, CIHR Health System Impact Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Alberta and Alberta Health Services
Moderator: Catherine Chan, PhD, University of Alberta
About the Speakers:
Lisa Martin, PhD, RD - is the Research & Evaluation Lead for Nutrition Services at Alberta Health Services and an adjunct professor in the Department of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Alberta. Dr. Martin is a Registered Dietitian and holds a Ph.D. in Nutrition and Metabolism and has authored over 40 peer-reviewed publications. Her work focuses on using real-world data and implementation science to study malnutrition, develop diagnostic tools, and improve nutrition care. Her work aims to improve health outcomes through evidence-based nutrition practice.
Pamela Klassen PhD, RD - is a registered dietitian and researcher with broad practice experience and a research focus on addressing disease-related malnutrition. She is currently collaborating with Nutrition Services in the Alberta health system to tackle the challenge of nutrition transitions from hospital to home. With patient and dietitian collaborators, she is studying patient experiences of food and eating problems after hospital discharge to inform the design of solutions that facilitate success.
About the Moderator:
Catherine Chan, PhD - is a member and former Director of the Division of Human Nutrition in the Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science at the University of Alberta. She has a broad-based nutrition focused research program including nutritional biochemistry studies of the health benefits of consuming foods such as pulse grains, egg and cheese, development, implementation and evaluation of nutrition interventions for people with type 2 diabetes (including collaboration with primary care networks and First Nations to do this, funded by CFDR and ADI, respectively), development of a childhood obesity model in piglets in a collaboration with B Willing; co-investigator on clinical trials of foods and nutraceuticals. She with Dr. RC Bell is the author of "The Pure Prairie Eating Plan"; application to ongoing research projects such as developing menus for women with gestational diabetes. In addition to her active research program and teaching duties at the University she is currently Scientific Director of the Diabetes, Obesity and Nutrition Strategic Clinical Network of Alberta Health Services where she directs and coordinates research in the province. She regularly attends the CNS annual meeting. She has served as treasurer for the Canadian Physiology Society and is on several advisory committees on health behavior-related team grants, such as the BETTERWISE project, a pan-Canadian intervention in primary care led by Dr. Donna Manca.
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