Laura Kruskall (Nutrition Center) has been elected and appointed as the chair of the Dietitian Advisory Group of the Department of Health and Human Services, Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health. She has served as a member of this committee since 2010.

The mission of the advisory group is to examine, consider, and make recommendations about the following issues:

• Facilitate the development of materials that may be used to educate the public concerning the practice of dietetics.
• Facilitate the exchange of information between dietitians, the Commission on Dietetic Registration of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, or its successor organization, the board.
• To provide recommendations to the board concerning regulations or practices that affect licensees, review disciplinary actions, appeals, denials, or revocations of licenses and terms of the suspension or reinstatement of licenses.