TAPPI Technical Committee Roles: Personal, Professional and Industry Growth

15 . 4 Personal growth and professional development

In this chapter, the twin concepts of personal growth and professional development will be examined. In many ways this is timely since governments worldwide are devising largely regulatory ways of ‘driving up’ and sustaining the quality of health care that health professionals provide.(1) However, a theme running throughout the discussion here will be that political pressure for what has been t...

AAPOS Professional Education Committee

Professional Practice Committee.

The Professional Practice Committee (PPC) of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) is responsible for the “Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes” position statement, referred to as the “Standards of Care.” The PPC is a multidisciplinary expert committee comprised of physicians, diabetes educators, registered dietitians, and others who have expertise in a range of areas, including adult and pe...

International Glutamate Technical Committee

While sodium reduction in the diet is an important objective, when salt (NaCl) levels are reduced in foods, its palatability is also generally decreased. Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is a flavour enhancer that contains about 12% sodium, which is less than half of that contained in regular table salt at about 39%. Therefore, by the addition of an appropriate amount of MSG, the palatability of low ...

Personal professional journeys.

It’s possible that you are reading this shortly after returning from the AOTA Annual Conference and Expo in Minneapolis. For those who were not able to attend, let me tell you a little about what the experience of “conferencing” is like—at least for me, a veteran of at least 20 conferences. In my early days as an occupational therapist, I attended Conference to hear about the newest assessments...