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Happy New Year Celiac Listserv Members!

Join Melinda Dennis, MS, RD, LDN, and Anthony Colatrella, MD, and other experts for a rare educational event for patients and clinicians in warm & sunny coastal San Diego on January 31 from 1:00-4:30 pm.  Tickets are now on sale for this Thriving Gluten-Free workshop at the ocean view Encinitas Library Auditorium.   

Tickets are just $10/adult or teen and $5/child ages 8-12. See the ThrivingGF.org site to secure your tickets.  CSA members will receive discounted adult admission.

http://www.ThrivingGF.org

Adult Workshop Featured Speakers: 
Distinguished celiac dietitian, author, & international lecturer Melinda Dennis, MS, RD, LDN * and Anthony Colatrella, MD, Chair of the National Celiac Support Association's Medical Advisory Team

Separate Children's Program Featured Speakers: 
EA Stewart, RD, and Rosio Hernandez, MS, RD, CNSC

Some topics addressed in the adult seminar:
- How and when to request vital vitamin and mineral nutrient levels
- Recognizing and managing other food sensitivities
- Separate 15 minute chats with Melinda for kids 8-12 and teens
- Gluten-free baking and cooking tips with Misty Faulkner
- Highlights from September's Falk Symposium in Amsterdam on Gluten Related Disorders
- A preview of potential future developments for diagnosis and treatment therapies
- Time for Q&A’s
- See Thriving Gluten-Free event website for more special programming

RDs attending will earn 2.5 CEUs (level 2) for no extra charge.

Certain segments of the adult and children's event will be professionally video taped.  Videos will be available to support groups and clinician offices by request around the country through the National Celiac Support Association later this year.

I hope you can join us!

Sincerely,

Julie Bradley
San Diego CSA Youth Coordinator and CSA Director of Outreach
1-877-CSA-4CSA

This event is presented by:

- The Celiac Support Association/USA, Chapter 57 San Diego Chapter
http://www.sandiegocsa.org

- The National Celiac Support Association
http://www.csaceliacs.org

* Diagnosed with celiac disease herself 25 years ago, Melinda Dennis MS, RD, LDN coauthored Real Life with Celiac Disease with Dr. Daniel Leffler and was elected to the Executive Board of the prestigious North American Society for the Study of Celiac Disease this past year. She was a twice-featured dietitian speaker at the 2013 International Celiac Disease Symposium and recently presented at the Falk Symposium in Amsterdam. Melinda is the Nutrition Coordinator of the Celiac Center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a Harvard teaching hospital in Boston, where she offers expert nutrition counseling in gluten related disorders. She offers nutrition consulting, wellness retreats, and clinician training through her consulting business, Delete the Wheat.

http://www.deletethewheat.com

* Please remember some posters may be WHEAT-FREE, but not GLUTEN-FREE *
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