Terese Scollard MBA, RD, LD, FAND is a Regional Clinical Nutrition Manager at Providence Health & Services in Oregon.  In 2014 she received the Abbott Nutrition Alliance Award and was recognized as one of four persons in U.S., in hospital settings who have made significant contributions to improve awareness of malnutrition and taking action to address the issues. She strive to lead healthcare systems and processes towards quality nutrition services to care for those most ill and address malnutrition in acute care settings and beyond.

• Describe the 2012 Academy/ASPEN international consensus and characteristics for adult disease related malnutrition and their application in acute and ambulatory care settings.
• Demonstrate how interdisciplinary care is critical to identification, screening, documentation, treatment and avoidance of harmful consequences for adults with disease-related malnutrition.
• Define future care models and tools that will reduce iatrogenic malnutrition, patient weight bias and minimize hospital and clinic contributions to declining nutritional status of patients with active disease.

• Demonstrate how dietitians can move forward to create and increase their skills and confidence to provide nutrition-focused physical assessment as one part of a nutritional assessment.
• Provide examples and model ways to support clinical staff engagement and resources for dietitians to start and grow in physical assessment skills.
• Demonstrate the strength of evidence that nutrition-focused physical assessment contributes to daily interdisciplinary patient care and the Nutrition Diagnosis of adult disease-related malnutrition.