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It’s estimated that it would take the average primary care provider 26.7 hours per day to complete all the recommended acute, chronic, and preventive care for a typical panel of 2,500 adult patients.1 With a team-based care model that includes and prioritizes registered dietitian nutritionists (RDNs), those hours can be slashed substantially. What’s more, nutrition is foundational when treating patients with chronic conditions, especially those with metabolic and cardiometabolic disease. The newly revised 2025 Scope and Standards of Practice for Registered Dietitian Nutritionists in Diabetes Care is a valuable resource for the care team as they seek to transform complex diabetes-cardiometabolic treatment in the primary care setting and help to give each patient the time and care they deserve.2
Join Alison Evert, MS,RDN, CDCES, FADCES and Janice MacLeod, MA, RDN, CDCES, FADCES on Thursday, February 19, 2026, from 2-3:30 p.m. ET, for a webinar that will examine how collaboration between dietitians and physicians can expand access to care, improve clinical outcomes, and enhance efficiency and generate revenue in primary care settings. Discussion will highlight how RDNs can complement physician care through technology integration, medication titration support, and facilitation of sustainable behavior change, resulting in improved patient outcomes and smoother primary practice operations.
1. Porter, J.et al. Revisiting the Time Needed to Provide Adult Primary Care. J GEN INTERN MED 38, 147–155 (2023). Buttorff C, Ruder T, Bauman M. Multiple Chronic Conditions in the United States. Rand Corp.; 2017. Davidson P, MacLeod J, Lau KHK. Revised 2025 Scope and Standards of Practice for
2. Registered Dietitian Nutritionists in Diabetes Care. Commission on Dietetic Registration website. Accessed September 4,2025. www.cdrnet.org/focus
Learning Objectives
After completing this continuing education activity, health care professionals will better be able to:
- Discuss current challenges in health care and how the expanded role of the RDN in diabetes-cardiometabolic care can help address these challenges.
- Describe how to use the newly revised Diabetes Care Scope and Standards publication to define the leadership role of the RDN in diabetes-cardiometabolic care as part of an interdisciplinary team in the primary care setting.
- Strategize how to build an interdisciplinary team that includes RDN to help expand access to cardiometabolic care, improve outcomes, and provide opportunities for revenue generating services.
Additional Information
Alison Evert, MS, RDN, CDCES, FADCES, is a registered dietitian nutritionist and certified diabetes care and education specialist, currently working as a diabetes nutrition education consultant. Previously, she managed a team of diabetes nutrition educators at the University of Washington - Medicine Primary Care network. Alison’s clinical interests included increasing access to nutrition and diabetes education for people with diabetes and those at risk in primary care.
Alison was the co-chair of the 2019 ADA nutrition consensus report and co-editor of the last three editions of the ADA’s Guide to Diabetes Nutrition Therapy. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education. She is the past chair of the Diabetes Dietetic Practice Group of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Alison is a frequent author and presenter on nutrition and diabetes education topics. She has a Master of Science degree in nutrition from Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in clinical dietetics from Washington State University.
Janice MacLeod, MA, RD, CDCES, FADCES, is a diabetes-cardiometabolic key-opinion-leader and consultant. Janice previously served in various clinical leadership roles at Medtronic, Welldoc, and Johnson & Johnson. Janice spent years in clinical practice as a dietitian/CDCES first at Carilion Health System in Roanoke, Va, then later, at the University of Maryland in Baltimore, Maryland. Janice has authored and edited multiple peer-reviewed publications, has developed numerous continuing education programs and presentations in the areas of diabetes nutrition, smart insulin delivery, glucose monitoring, digital health, and practice transformation.
Janice is past Chair of the Academy of Nutrition & Dietetics Diabetes Practice Group and serves on the Association of Diabetes Care and Education Specialists Board of Directors 2024-2027. She is chair-elect of the American Diabetes Association Nutrition Science and Metabolism Community of Interest. Her passion is developing business-savvy solutions, leveraging technology to transform healthcare. Janice lives with her husband in Maryland where they enjoy boating on the Chesapeake Bay, taking walks, growing and cooking with herbs, baking bread, reading lots of books and writing.
Disclosures:
Janice MacLeod, MA, RD, CDCES, FADCES, faculty for this educational event, is a consultant for Beta Bionics and Trividia Health. All of the relevant financial relationships listed for this individual have been mitigated.
Alison Evert, MS, RDN, CDCES, FADCES, and planners for this educational activity have no relevant financial relationship(s) with ineligible companies to disclose.
An “ineligible company” includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing health care products used by or on patients.
In support of improving patient care, Great Valley Publishing Company is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team. This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
This activity will also award credit for dietetics (CDR CPEU).
Dietitians:
This activity will also award 1.5 CDR CPEU credits for dietetics. Completion of this RD/DTR profession specific or IPCE activity awards CPEUs (One IPCE credit = One CPEU). If the activity is dietetics-related but not targeted to RDs or DTRs, CPEUs may be claimed which are commensurate with participation in contact hours (One 60-minute hour = 1 CPEU).
RDs and DTRs are to select activity type 102 in their Activity Log. Sphere and Competency selection is at the learner's discretion.
Physicians:
Great Valley Publishing designates this live material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit (s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Interprofessional:
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive 1.5 IPCE credits for learning and change.
Available Credit
- 1.50 Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE)This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change.
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