Preconference Course
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
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, PhDProfessor Emeritus, Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Lausanne University
Intensivist and Clinical Nutrition Specialist
Department of Adult Intensive Care, Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV)
Todd Rice
MD, MSc, FASPENProfessor of Medicine
Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Leah Gramlich
MDProfessor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Medicine Department, University of Alberta
Puneeta Tandon
MD, MScAssociate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Medicine Department, University of Alberta
Sonali Thosani
MDAssociate Professor; Section Chief for Diabetes
Department of Endocrine, Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders, Division of Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Donald Abrams
MDCancer and Integrative Medicine Specialist
UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Health, University of California San Francisco
Professor
Department of Medicine, UCSF Medical Center
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
Moderator: Lindsey Russell
MD, MSc, CNSC, FRCPC
Associate Staff and Gastroenterologist
Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Cleveland Clinic
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