Awards

Lester Rosenzweig

Please congratulate Lester Rosenzweig on the Career Achievement Award. He has been a true servant leader. His focus in dietetics has been one to improve the health of the populations he has served, which has included all ages from children to the aged and has spanned over thirty years.

His passion has obviously been in working with and advocating for individuals with intellectual disabilities. He has been an amazing leader in this endeavor as evidenced by his writing and his leadership in Behavioral Health Nutrition, where he has held a number of positions over many years.

His writing contributions embody the Academy’s values of customer focus, integrity, innovation, and social responsibility. Not only did he coauthor the Standards of Practice and Standards of Professional Performance for Registered Dietitians (Competent, Proficient, and Expert) in Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, but further writings demonstrated the need for the standards and ethics to be maintained and implemented as he has done within his own communities.

He is a role model to which we should all aspire to follow in his footsteps. There is no better example of a Dietitian that truly takes the nutrition message to the community. Please join BHN in congratulating  and thanking Lester Rosenzweig.

Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole

Please congratulate Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole for their work in Excellent in Written Communication.  Intuitive Eating is a text that changes lives every day. It’s a context that allows people to develop a sense of trust and a reliance on self that is frequently discouraged in expert culture. It seems like such a simple message. Yet in this text, Evelyn and Elyse break it down and explain it in a way that hadn’t been done before. The 10 principles of Intuitive Eating are probably a part of many dietitian-client conversations every day.

I remember reading Intuitive Eating almost 20 years ago, about five years after it was published in 1995. The cover promised “A revolutionary program that works,” A claim that many books make, but for me was the end of the search for “the what works.” For me, Intuitive Eating is why I became a dietitian.

The Behavioral Health Nutrition DPG is beyond honored to have these two pioneers among our membership and it is important to honor their work. There are many ways to honor these two: amazing authors, speakers, educators, and above all dietitians, BHN is overjoyed to present Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole with the award for Excellence In written communication. We continue to witness their impact in the field of nutrition and look forward to hearing from them for years to come.