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ForwardZolik Family Pediatric Nutrition Month: From Tube to Table: An Evidence-Based Approach for Nurturing a Child’s Internal Motivation to Eat
March 24, 2026
We invite you to join us for the Zolik Family Pediatric Nutrition Month CME webinar series!
These educational webinars will feature pediatric nutrition experts from around the country sharing information to help you care for your patients and their families.
The Pediatric Nutrition Month CME webinar series is made possible thanks to a philanthropic gift from the Zolik Family.
Helping tube-fed children transition to oral feeding requires more than calories; it requires motivation. A strategic, evidence-based approach can safely build hunger, strengthen feeding skills, and support lasting independence.
This practical session explores how structured calorie reduction and responsive feeding techniques work together to promote progress, avoid common pitfalls like overfeeding, and reframe tube use as a temporary bridge, not a barrier, to oral eating. Register today!
Learn about our other Nutrition Month programs!
https://cme.uchicago.edu/NM2026-W1
https://cme.uchicago.edu/NM2026-W2
https://cme.uchicago.edu/NM2026-W3
Target Audience
This activity is designed for clinicians practicing general and subspecialty pediatrics, surgeons, dieticians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and other healthcare professionals interested in a scientifically sound approach to managing primary and disease-related nutritional disorders in children.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Explain the factors that influence internal motivation to eat in tube-fed children.
- Calculate appropriate calorie goals for tube-fed children using evidence-based nutritional benchmarks.
- Identify clinical practices that hinder oral feeding progress in tube-fed children.
- Interpret data demonstrating the “tube more, eat less” relationship in pediatric feeding.
- Design tube-weaning plans that promote hunger, skill acquisition, and long-term oral intake.
Online Webinar
Chicago, IL
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
Visit the Comer Children's Hospital website!
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact Natalie Pabijan via email at [email protected].
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
FACULTY
Karen Dilfer, MS, OTR/L
Occupational Therapist Section of Developmental Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
University of Chicago
Betsy Hjelmgren, MS, RDN, CSP, LDN
Owner, Senior Clinical Pediatric Dietitian
Feed to Succeed, LLC
Occupational Therapist Section of Developmental Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
University of Chicago
Betsy Hjelmgren, MS, RDN, CSP, LDN
Owner, Senior Clinical Pediatric Dietitian
Feed to Succeed, LLC
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Please note: The credit claiming process will close one month after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after one month may incur additional fees.
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Please note: The credit claiming process will close one month after the activity ends. Requests to claim credit after one month may incur additional fees.
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