Speaker:

• Kathryn (Kate) Ackerman, MD, MPH, FACSM is the founder and Medical Director of the Female Athlete Program at Boston Children’s Hospital, the Associate Director of the Sports Endocrine Research Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe athlete-specific interpretation of bone density measurements via DXA
• Discuss ways body composition from DXA can be helpful in eating disorder treatment in athletes
• Discuss utility of body comp Z-scores for resumption of menses in amenorrheic athletes

Collegiate and Professional Sports Dietitians Association (Accredited Provider CP294) is approved by the Commission on Dietetic Registration to provide continuing education to Registered Dietitians. This program is eligible for 1.0 CPEU.

Participants can provide feedback on the quality of the session content directly to CDR by contacting QualityCPE@eatright.org.