
Annual Meeting
ANCE 2024 will take place on Friday, April 5th at the Four Points Sheraton in Norwood.
If you would like to exhibit at the conference, please register here: https://www.eatrightma.org/ance/exhibitor.cfm
Updated November 21, 2023
Academy Action Alerts
The Academy has announced an important new action alert. Please take action now!
Urge your members of Congress to support the Medical Nutrition Therapy Act!
To take action on this and other action alerts, log into your Academy account and visit the Action Center at https://www.eatrightpro.org/advocacy/take-action/action-alerts
Want to learn more about a particular policy issue?
Join an Academy Affinity Group!
Connect with fellow members on top policy priorities and learn how to get involved.
Register for monthly meetings and join the COI for each affinity group: https://www.eatrightpro.org/advocacy/take-action/grassroots-resources/join-the-academy-affinity-groups
MNT Expansion - First Tuesday of every month from 3:30-4:30 pm ET
Nutrition Security - First Wednesday of every month from 4:00-5:00 pm ET
Licensure Initiatives – Second Tuesday of every month from 3:00-4:00 pm ET
Payment and Reimbursement - Fourth Tuesday of every month from 2:00-3:00 pm ET
MAND & Telehealth MNT – Help us keep up the momentum!
MAND’s bill calling for reimbursement parity for telehealth MNT, “An Act relative to telehealth parity for nutrition counseling” (H.1073/S.618), was on the docket at the May 2nd public hearing of the legislature’s Joint Committee on Financial Services.
MAND’s Director of Public Policy and President-elect presented verbal testimony at the hearing and submitted a longer document and patient testimonials as written testimony. This document will be reviewed by members of the Financial Services committee, who will decide whether to advance the bill to the next step in the legislative process: reporting the bill favorably out of committee.
Want to help MAND contact and connect with our state and federal legislators?
Sign up to be part of MAND’s Grassroots Network!
To help MAND’s Public Policy Panel communicate effectively and advocate successfully for food and nutrition issues important to our profession, we maintain a list of members who would like to be more actively involved with public policy activities.
This “Grassroots Network” of MAND members from across the state is critical to advancing public policies supported by MAND and the Academy. Helping out can be as simple as sending an email or a social media message, as this helps to create and grow relationships with elected officials.
Each registered voter is a constituent of two U.S. senators and one U.S. representative as well as one state senator and one state representative. Our elected officials appreciate hearing directly from their constituents, learning about issues important to them. It is when we educate them on nutrition-related issues and directly ask for their support of a bill or policy item that we can begin to see success in policy areas important to us and our fellow nutrition and dietetics practitioners.
What can you do to get involved and join the Grassroots Network? Visit https://www.sec.state.ma.us/wheredoivotema/bal/myelectioninfo.aspx and enter your home address to see a complete listing of your members of Congress, members of the state legislature and other local offices. Then email Sarah Conca, MAND’s Director of Public Policy at sconca@live.com with the following information:
Your full name, credentials, home address, ZIP code + 4
Preferred email and telephone number
Name of your U.S. representative, MA senator and MA representative.
Thank you for your advocacy!
ANCE 2024 will take place on Friday, April 5th at the Four Points Sheraton in Norwood.
If you would like to exhibit at the conference, please register here: https://www.eatrightma.org/ance/exhibitor.cfm
Do You Want to Make a Difference for Your Profession and Your Community? Visit our Public Policy Section.
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