Goals and objectives:
1. Publish an e-newsletter every 4 to 6 months for all GMDI members on the GMDI website.
2. Serve as an editorial board responsible for review of GMDI publications or projects prior to distribution to the GMDI membership and outside entities.
3. Establish an “editorial service” for GMDI members who wish to publish in peer-reviewed journals (or similar) and would like assistance with planning, organizing and/or editing the article.
Activities:
The committee’s primary activity is to collect information, write and edit articles for the newsletter, GMDI Connections. The next newsletter will be out later in Fall 2009. We are starting a new section for the newsletter to provide formula companies with a forum for announcing new products and other information pertinent to metabolic dietitians. This will be a fee-based service to help provide revenue for GMDI activities.
Future plans:
Over the next year, we will begin organizing a service to provide editorial assistance for GMDI members wishing to publish research or clinical articles. Our objective will be to help GMDI members who are new to writing articles to increase nutrition-related publications and the visibility of our work in professional literature.