{"id":7129,"date":"2015-06-25T15:54:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T19:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/busm\/?p=7129"},"modified":"2015-07-09T14:07:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T18:07:26","slug":"vietnams-ministry-of-health-recognizes-busm-for-building-capacity-in-hospital-nutrition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/2015\/06\/25\/vietnams-ministry-of-health-recognizes-busm-for-building-capacity-in-hospital-nutrition\/","title":{"rendered":"Vietnam\u2019s Ministry of Health Recognizes BUSM for Building Capacity in Hospital Nutrition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carine Lenders, MD, MS, ScD, and Elizabeth Henry, DrPh, MHS.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Carine Lenders, MD, MS, ScD, Associate Professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Physician Nutrition Specialist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), and Elizabeth Henry, DrPH, MHS, who will graduate from BU\u2019s School of Public Health (BUSPH) in September, have received the People\u2019s Health Medal from the Social Republic of Vietnam\u2019s Ministry of Health for their work on behalf of the Abbott Fund Institute of Nutrition Science (AFINS).<\/p>\n

Lenders and Henry were recognized for advancing hospital nutrition in Vietnam using a three-prong approach based on education, clinical service and research. The commemorative medal is the highest honor awarded to nationals and foreigners who make a major contribution to health care in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

Beginning in 2010, Lenders and Henry led AFINS, a unique effort that brings together Vietnamese and U.S. nutrition and global health experts among hospitals, academia, government and foundations.<\/p>\n

The program is a partnership between BUSM, Bach Mai Hospital (BMH), Hanoi Medical University (HMU) and the National Institute of Nutrition (NIN) in Vietnam and the Abbott Fund to address hospital malnutrition and strengthen hospital nutrition knowledge, attitudes and practices.<\/p>\n

These collaborative efforts would not have been possible without the vision and investment from the Abbott Fund, the foundation of the global health care company, Abbott, which awarded more than $4.4 million to implement this multifaceted project, oversee nutrition medicine fellowships for Vietnamese health professionals and provide mentoring.<\/p>\n

Additional alliances were formed with experts in dietetics, pharmacy, nutrition medicine, education and global health from BU\u2019s Sargent College of Health & Rehabilitation Sciences, Emory University, University of Texas and Boston Children\u2019s Hospital in the United States and with Children\u2019s Hospital 1 (CH1) in Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam.<\/p>\n

The AFINS experts provided technical support for the development of nutrition and dietetics degrees at HMU with more than 30 nurse-nutritionist and 50 bachelors in nutrition and dietetics graduates, six research projects with the NIN tracking hospital nutrition, and the training of more than 2,000 Vietnamese health care professionals to improve capacity in nutrition departments. Additionally, AFINS\u2019 partners found that hospitalized patients surveyed in 2013 at BMH were 29 percent less likely to be malnourished compared to those surveyed in 2010.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a tremendous honor to receive the People\u2019s Health Medal from Vietnam\u2019s Ministry of Health,\u201d said Henry, also a former instructor in BUSM\u2019s Department of Family Medicine. \u201cThe advances AFINS has made to improve outcomes and educate medical professionals about the importance of nutrition will have a lasting impact on the health care system in Vietnam.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lenders accepted the People\u2019s Health Medal on behalf of the AFINS partners on May 27, 2015, in Hanoi. Lenders continues to lead the AFINS project in Vietnam with an extension grant from the Abbott Fund that builds on the initial approach but also focuses on pediatric nutrition training and research in the southern region of Vietnam and provides support for the development and implementation of standards and assessments of provincial hospitals nationwide.<\/p>\n

\u201cHigher education and more training are critical to enhance hospital nutrition in Vietnam,\u201d said Lenders. \u201cMoving forward we hope to learn more about the impact of medical nutrition interventions involving a younger patient population in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings for a sustainable future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carine Lenders, MD, MS, ScD, Associate Professor of pediatrics at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Physician Nutrition Specialist at Boston Medical Center (BMC), and Elizabeth Henry, DrPH, MHS, who will graduate from BU\u2019s School of Public Health (BUSPH) in September, have received the People\u2019s Health Medal from the Social Republic of Vietnam\u2019s Ministry […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[89,91],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20702,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7129\/revisions\/20702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/camed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}