Welcome

Dear Colleagues,




On behalf of the Turkish Society for Enteral Parenteral Clinical Nutrition (KEPAN), we are pleased to invite you to attend the 28th ESPEN Congress on Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism to be held in the Istanbul Lutfi Kirdar Convention & Exhibition Center, October 19th to 22th, 2006.
The Istanbul Congress will follow the format of the very successful previous meetings and will provide as its motto expresses «Bridging the Gap Between Science and Practice» an implementation of a well established scientific data linked to the daily clinical practice. The scientific and educational programme were chosen with the close collaboration of the ESPEN Committees and the outstanding lectures will be delivered by a distinguished international faculty, while a large number of selected free oral communications and poster presentations will report new data from different experimental laboratory and clinical centers. As in the last years, during the ESPEN Istanbul Congress you will have the opportunity to assist to satellite symposia and to join sessions with sister societies which will present recent states of different aspects of the field.
Eight live courses of the ESPEN-Leonardo da VINCI Life Long Learning (LLL) programme, will allow professionals participating to the congress to improve their knowledge in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.

Final Programme for download and printing (PDF):
Cover
Pages 1 - 16
Pages 17 - 31
Pages 32 - 40
Istanbul

Regarding the recent terrorist events, be sure that we are facing this problem in taking all possible security measures inside the congress centre and the hotels. See the letter by the Governor of Istanbul.

With the pleasure to follow the congress in the center of Istanbul, you will enjoy the opening ceremony with a very interesting lecture «The Influence of Turkish Food Culture on Europe» and the welcome reception with a worldwide spectacular musical show «Fire of Anatolia».
We look forward very much to welcoming you to the 28th ESPEN Congress in the very fascinating, mystical and exotic spirit of Istanbul, a great city famous for its historical monuments and magnificent scenic beauties. The only city in the world which links with the Bosphorus two continents, Asia with one arm and Europe with the other.

Mois BAHAR (Congress President)
Mehmet UYAR
(Chairman Local Scientific Committee)
Sadik KILIÇTURGAY
(Chairman Local Educational Committee)