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Press Releases
HCRC Presents First Grant Findings About Functional Foods
Columbia, Mo. (May 21, 2004) - Findings from the Health Communication Research Center’s functional foods grant were presented at the 2004 Experimental Biology Conference, which ran from April 17-20 in Washington, D.C. The multi-society, interdisciplinary, biomedical, scientific conference featured more than 12,000 independent scientists representing groups such as the American Association of Immunologists, American Physiological Society and American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.
Glen T. Cameron, co-director of the HCRC, and Ph.D. student Mugur Geana, M.D. presented “Promoting the function foods concept – an evaluation of stakeholders’ attitudes” to more than 500 scientists at the Relative Bioactivity of Functional Foods and Related Dietary Supplements symposium.
Cameron and Geana also displayed “Better nurses for better care: nurse-patient communication about functional foods as a trigger for personal and professional gain” at the Nutrition in Medical Education and Medical Care poster session.
The information for the presentation and the poster session were garnered from a USDA grant looking at component interactions for efficacy of functional foods.
“This conference afforded a wonderful opportunity to present our findings in a new arena,” said Cameron, who is also a professor and Maxine Wilson Gregory Chair in Journalism Research at the Missouri School of Journalism. “We were able to present the strategic communication model we’re using at Missouri and get feedback from hundreds of people outside of our discipline. The HCRC research was done through a grant provided by the USDA and University of Illinois. The primary goals of the grant were to assess nurses' knowledge and access to information about functional foods and to develop educational materials for nurses across the country.
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