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MDA Member Mary Pat Raimondi, MS, RD, named
Vice President of Strategic Policy and Partnerships at ADA

To expand ADA's advocacy and policy efforts and to sustain the viability and credibility of the dietetics profession, ADA announced the appointment of Mary Pat Raimondi, MS, RD, as the new Vice President of Strategic Policy and Partnerships.

Mary Pat Raimondi is program director for health and nutrition at the University of Minnesota Extension, where she helps shape the university's federal and state legislative public policy key messages and manages multiple grants and innovative programming. She brings expertise in program management, social marketing, food and nutrition trends and policy analysis to the position. She is a former LPPC chair and a current member of ADA's Board of Directors and House of Delegates Leadership Team. Ms. Raimondi will focus on federal government relations and lobbying, including federal regulatory relations; alliance and coalition building; public policy strategy development; and identification of new policy and program opportunities.

Some of Mary Pat's responsibilities will include:

- Public Policy Trends and Strategy Development
- Federal Government Relations and Lobbying
- Federal Regulatory Relations
- Priority Areas for Public Policy/Advocacy Recommendations
- Alliance/Coalition Identification, Cultivation and Maintenance
- Key Food, Nutrition and Health Initiatives Communications
- ADAF Activities and Member Research Promotion
- Research and Evidence Development Usage
- Public Policy Positions and Legislative Priority Recommendations
- PAC Disbursement Identification
- New Policy and Program Opportunities Identification
- New Research/Position Recommendations
- Outcome Measures
- Environmental Scanning and StrategicPlanning
- Budget Development/Administration
- Staff Supervision/Development
- ADA Business Unit Interface