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LA's only Metabolic Nutritionist elected President of GMDI, the first national metabolic nutritionist organization

Friday, June 19th, 2009

 

Amy Cunningham, MS, RD, LDN has just been elected as President of the Genetic Metabolic Nutritionists International, the first and only professional organization of metabolic nutritionists. Ms. Cunningham has been the only fulltime metabolic nutritionist in Louisiana since she came to the Hayward Genetics Center in 1997. With a membership of over 160 metabolic nutritionists, GMDI's mission is to provide standards for management of inherited metabolic disorders for which dietary treatment is the standard of care. As these rare disorders require specialized formula and regular monitoring, involvement of a trained metabolic nutritionist is required but the availability is severely limited in most communities. Ms. Cunningham's term will last from 2010 - 2012.