The ATA Medical Division is excited to announce our first MED Talks of 2025! It will take place virtually on Saturday, February 22, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. ET.
MED Talks are the ATA Medical Division content-based presentation series, free and open to all Medical Division members!
Topic: The Ins and Outs of IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome)
Speaker: Megan Greenlee Mapes RD, CDN, CSP
Description:
This session will be a deep dive into IBS, or Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome, with Megan Greenlee Mapes, who is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Dietitian Nutritionist, and Certified Specialist in Pediatrics. She will walk us through initial differential diagnoses, tests that are routinely ordered, criteria for diagnosis, recommended lifestyle changes, and the classes of medication that can be prescribed as treatment. In short, this is everything you ever wanted to know about IBS. We can’t wait to see you there!
About the Speaker:
Megan Greenlee Mapes is a Registered Dietitian, Certified Dietitian Nutritionist and Certified Specialist in Pediatrics. Megan became a dietitian after earning her first degree in baking and pastry art and becoming fascinated by the science behind food. That experience, paired with a desire for a career that would allow her to help others, made clinical nutrition and dietetics the obvious choice. She graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology in 2015 and moved to West Virginia to complete her dietetic internship at Ruby Memorial Hospital of West Virginia University. After passing her RD exam in 2016, Megan went into clinical care and eventually made her way to pediatrics. In 2021 Megan passed her Certified Specialist in Pediatrics exam. Megan comes from the world of pediatric gastroenterology with ample experience in failure to thrive, infant feeding concerns, formula and breast milk fortification, nutrition support (all tube feeding types and TPN), picky eaters, constipation, IBS, IBD and healthy lifestyle. While Megan loves the pediatric population, she also sees adult patients and enjoys empowering patients to focus on their health and not their weight and finding ways to incorporate all foods into a healthy lifestyle.
To register, please fill out this Google form by February 20th. Contact us if you have any questions regarding this event at divisionMD@atanet.org.
This MED Talk will be recorded, and the recording will be available for one month to all members who register. This event is for members of the ATA Medical Division only.