The American Society for Clinical Nutrition as an academic society.
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Ending my presidential year on the 30th anniversary of The American Society of Clinical Nutrition (ASCN) gives me the opportunity to reflect on our society’s original goals and our success in meeting them. Thirty years ago, in September 1959, 10 academic physicians met in New York to establish a society “along the lines of the American Society for Clinical Investigation” that would parallel the purposes of the academic societies that met in Atlantic City every spring in those years. With Grace Goldsmith as their chair, they met a month later in New Orleans and further articulated three major goals: to advance the recognition of nutrition as a medical discipline, to improve standards of nutrition education, and to stimulate research on human nutrition and metabolism. The foremost goal of advancing the recognition of nutrition as a medical discipline encompasses the other two and continues to be the major purpose ofour society. The second and third goals of fostering education and research are integral to establishing nutrition as a discipline in academic medicine. Our society had its first organized meeting in 1960 in the old Haddon Hall in Atlantic City, attended by about 40 members who, with 29 other interested academicians, became the charter members. The relationship with The American Institute of Nutrition was rapidly agreed upon by both sides, and since then we have enjoyed the benefits of autonomy together with an association with basic scientists that is nearly unique to academic clinical societies. With the selection of our first officers, ASCN took over The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition as its official organ and established the high scientific standards for membership that endure to this day (1). (Original minutes of these meetings are recorded in the executive office of the society.)
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عنوان ژورنال:
- The American journal of clinical nutrition
دوره 50 2 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1989