40TH ESPEN Congress on Clinical Nutrition & Metabolism

SCHEDULE

Aug 31 @ noon GMT – Strength Ambassador Program

Sep 1 @ noon GMT – Abbott Nutrition Health Institute (ANHI) Satellite Symposium

“Nutritional Strategies to Tackle Loss of Muscle Mass and Improve Patient Outcomes Across the Healthcare Continuum”

• Ricardo Rueda, MD, PhD, MSc – Welcome and introductions
• Paul Wischmeyer MD, EDIC – Nutritional interventions to support muscle mass in the ICU patient: From acute care to recovery
• Alessandro Laviano, MD – Why muscle matters: Meeting nutritional needs throughout the cancer journey
• Annemie Schols, PhD – COPD and muscle mass loss: Effective identification and management

Sep 3 @ 8:30 AM GMT – Paul Wischmeyer MD, EDIC

In this webinar, Dr Wischmeyer will review the importance of muscle mass/lean mass and nutrition intervention in the acute care setting/ICU and its impact on muscle after hospital discharge and through recovery

Sep 4 @ noon GMT – Alessandro Laviano, MD

In this webinar, Dr Laviano will discuss the role of muscle mass/lean mass and the changing nutrition therapy needs across the cancer journey.

FACULTY BIOS

Ricardo Rueda, MD, PhD, MSc
Volwiler Research Fellow
Global Mobility and Metabolism Platform Leader
Head Scientific Affairs EMEA
Abbott Nutrition R&D

Paul Wischmeyer MD, EDIC
Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery
Director of Perioperative Research, Duke Clinical Research Institute
Associate Vice Chair for Clinical Research, Dept. of Anesthesiology
Director, Nutrition Support Service, Duke University Hospital
Duke University School of Medicine

Alessandro Laviano, MD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine
La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

Annemie Schols, PhD
Professor of Nutrition and Metabolism in Chronic Diseases
Scientific Director of NUTRIM School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism
Maastricht University, The Netherlands