Physician Preconference Course • Comprehensive Nutrition Therapy: Tactical Approaches in 2025 (PHY-2025)

Preconference Course

Additional Fee

Date & Time:

March 21, 2025

8:00 AM – 3:30 PM ET

Format:

In Person

CE Credits:

6.0 Hours

UAN: No pharmacy credit

Course level:

Intermediate

Register for In Person Session
session objectives:

What You'll Learn

This course is designed to engage physicians who integrate nutrition into their patients’ treatment plans and underscore its impact on patient outcomes. Sessions will cover nutrition care in patients with liver disease, diabetes, malignancy, gastrointestinal disease, and trauma/critical care. The course will conclude with presentations of complex clinical case vignettes by an expert panel.

  • Summarize evidence-based nutrition care strategies in a variety of disease states.
  • Examine the impact of nutrition on patient outcomes across various care settings.
  • Discuss the role of clinical guidelines in individualized medical nutrition therapy care plans.
  • Assess complex clinical case vignettes and provide unique solutions through stimulated debate and conversation.

Presenters & Topics

Mette Berger

MD, PhD
Individualized Medical Nutrition Therapy and Respecting Guidelines: An Oxymoron?

Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Biology and Medicine

Lausanne University

Intensivist and Clinical Nutrition Specialist

Department of Adult Intensive Care, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)

Lausanne, Switzerland

Todd Rice

MD, MSc, FASPEN
What Has Changed in the Last 25 Years of Critical Care Nutrition

Professor of Medicine

Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

Nashville, TN

Leah Gramlich

MD
Physicians as Champions for Nutrition Care

Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Medicine Department, University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB Canada

Puneeta Tandon

MD, MSc
Nutritional Prehabilitation in Cirrhosis

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry

Medicine Department, University of Alberta

Edmonton, AB Canada

Sonali Thosani

MD
Finding the Sweet Spot – Tips on Achieving Glucose Control in Patients on Nutrition Support Therapy

Associate Professor; Section Chief for Diabetes

Department of Endocrine, Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Houston, TX

Donald Abrams

MD
Nutrition in Cancer: Do’s and Don’t’s

Cancer and Integrative Medicine Specialist

UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health, University of California San Francisco

Professor

Department of Medicine, UCSF Medical Center

San Francisco, CA

Moderator:
Matthew Kappus

MD

Medical Director, Living Donor Liver Transplant Program

Duke Health

Associate Professor of Medicine

Division of Gastroenterology, Duke University School of Medicine

Durham, NC

Moderator:
Lindsey Russell

MD, MSc, CNSC, FRCPC

Associate Staff and Gastroenterologist

Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, OH

Moderator:
Jennifer Katz

MD, FACG, PNS

Director, Enteral Access Team and Total Parenteral Nutrition

Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, NYU Langone Health

Assistant Professor

Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine

New York, NY

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