Food-Medication Interactions
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Speaker: Dean Elbe, RPh, PharmD, BCPP
Description:
This recorded webinar reviews the basics of pharmacokinetics with examples of the effect of food on medication absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion. Conversely the effects of medication on food and nutrient absorption, metabolism and excretion will be discussed. Modification of medication action and the enhanced and competitive effects of food and medication actions will be presented. Medications that affect nutritional status are delineated. The presentation provides practical approaches to prevention and diagnosis of food-medication interactions. Patient counseling, assessment and medical nutrition therapy are discussed.
Objectives:
At the end of this session the participant will be able to:
1- Describe at least three ways that food can alter the pharmacokinetics of medications.
2- Explain at least three ways that medication can alter the kinetics of nutrients.
3- Identify the mechanisms by which medication action is altered by nutrients.
4- List pharmacologic effects of medication that adversely affect nutritional status.
5- State specific information to provide to patients about food drug interactions.
6- Describe assessment of nutritional problems to determine possible interactions.
7- Identify MNT for specific medication side effects which affect nutritional status.
8- List practical ways to apply this
Instructions for Obtaining Continuing Professional Education (CPE):
Carefully listen to all the contents of this program. The focus is to increase your knowledge and application of the subject matter. After the program, your group of 3 or more is required by CDR to have a reactive discussion on this topic based on the practical applications it has for you in your setting
• For RDs and DTRs: Once you have completed the entire program including a reactive discussion with allied health professionals of 3 or more that have also participated in this webinar, please sign and date the certificate of completion that is located at the end of the handouts and place in your portfolio for your records.
• For CDMs: Please obtain the subsequent approval form from the ANFP website
http://www.anfponline.org/CE/CE_forms_subsequent.shtml to request your continuing professional education credits (as required).
Webinar is worth 2 CEUs
Level II Learning Codes: 2100, 3005, 3070, 5000
Speaker:
Dean Elbe is a Doctor of Pharmacy and Board Certified Psychiatric Pharmacist, from Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. Dean has practiced for the past 3 years as a clinical pharmacy specialist in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, at British Columbia Children’s Hospital in Vancouver, BC. Prior to this, Dean worked in Adult Psychiatry for 10 years. Dean is an editor of Editions 11-16 of Food Medication Interactions (written by his co-speaker Zaneta Pronsky) and author of the Grapefruit-Drug interaction table in each of these editions. Dean has produced 4 versions of Food Medication Interactions software viewable on personal digital assistants and smart phones such as Palm and Pocket PC Devices as well as BlackBerry, iPhone and iPad. Dean is an international speaker and Director of the company MediaPharm, where they make health information podcasts, with a personal touch, and he encourages you to follow him on Twitter at these handles: @DrDeanElbe and @MyMediaPharm.
System Requirements:
Internet Explorer® 6.0 or newer, Mozilla® Firefox® 2.0 or newer (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)
Windows® 2000, XP, 2003 Server or Vista
Cable modem, DSL, or better Internet connection
Minimum of Pentium® class 1GHz CPU with 512 MB of RAM (recommended) (2 GB of RAM for Windows® Vista)
MAC requirements:
Safari™ 3.0 or newer, Firefox® 2.0 or newer (JavaScript™ and Java™ enabled)
Mac OS® X 10.4 (Tiger®) or newer
PowerPC G4/G5 or Intel processor (512 MB of RAM or better recommended)
Cable modem, DSL, or better Internet connection