It has been nearly 2 decades since the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (then the American Dietetic Association) published Medical Nutrition Therapy Across the Continuum of Care1 under the leadership of former chief science officer Esther Myers, PhD, RD, FADA. This marked the official emergence of dietetics into the young field of evidence-based practice (EBP) in the very same year that the British Medical Journal published Sackett and colleagues’ now ubiquitous definition of the practice: “[T]he conscientious, explicit, and judicious use of current best evidence in making decisions about the care of individual patients.”2 Since that time, EBP has evolved, and the Academy has both adapted to and contributed to those changes (Figure 1).
