10th ESPEN SYMPOSIUM
Nutrition for the older adult
Current concepts

Istanbul, Türkiye - December 3-4, 2023

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• INTERNATIONAL ATTENDEES

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WHO and ESPEN join forces

2 billion adults overweight, 600 million obese and 462 million malnourished... contributing to 60% of cardiovasc death and 35% tumor death. In hospital, you have a 35% chance of 'disease-related' malnutrition. Dr Joao Breda and Dr. Kremlin Wickramasinghe from World Health Organization (WHO) join our battle in Nice.

2018 MNI Grant

The MNI grant rewards national initiatives or research projects for Optimal Nutritional Care. The objective is to support and/or inspire high quality initiatives. For more information check the following webpage: http://medicalnutritionindustry.com/grant/mni-grant/

2022 MNI Grant

MNI Award of €30,000 to planned national initiatives or research projects for Optimal Nutritional Care

The MNI grant rewards national initiatives or research projects for Optimal Nutritional Care. The objective is to support and/or inspire high-quality initiatives.
The deadline to submit a proposal is 15 May.

More information on the MNI website at medicalnutritionindustry.com/grant/mni-grant or download the MNI Grant flyer.

25th ESPEN course of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care held in Croatia

Croatia was the host of the 25th ESPEN course in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic care that was held in Zagreb, from the 5^th until the 10^th of October 2018. The course, that was organized by the Croatian Society of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, gathered participants from all over the world.  The global, multiethnic and mulitcultural character of the course, as its quality and academic excellence, was confirmed by bringing together 100 participants from 26 countries (Hungary, Thailand, Latvia, Austria, Italy, South Korea, Egypt, India, Poland, Finland, Slovenia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Lithuania, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Republic of Macedonia, Romania, Cyprus, France, Estonia and Croatia) and lecturers from 13 countries  (France, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Poland, Latvia, Austria, Serbia, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Slovenia and Croatia).The aforementioned is a clear acknowledgement of the growing interest in clinical nutrition and also the growing popularity of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism.

During the course the participants had the opportunity to enhance their knowledge by listening to more than 25 concise lectures of latest scientific data regarding clinical nutrition and metabolic care in every day practice. Furthermore, they participated in LLL courses focused on oral and enteral nutrition in adults and the approach to parenteral nutrition.

The quality of the ESPEN course is also confirmedthrough various workshops, case presentations and discussions held by both lecturers and participant ensuring active, intellectually rich participation by both parties.In addition, the added value of the course is that it provides an opportunity for participants and lecturers to share expertise and cross-fertilise ideas. Lastly, by educating MDs, nutritionists, pharmasists and continuously raising awareness on the importance of clinical nutrition and metabolic care the ESPEN courseis ensuring thekeypreconditionsfor optimal nutritional care for patients all over the world.

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The 25th ESPEN course in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic care

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All participants and lecturers of the 25th ESPEN course

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The 25th ESPEN course organizing committee

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LLL Workshop on acute pancreatitis

View the Program for the 25th ESPEN Course in Croatia - here -

26th ESPEN Course of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care held in Slovenia

AIMS 
• To provide clinically relevant information about clinical nutrition and metabolism 
• To improve knowledge about classification of clinical nutrition concepts and how to introduce the process of nutritional care in clinical work 
• To introduce the LLL programe 

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ESPEN Course in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism

Hradec Králové, Czech Republic 9th to 15th October, 2022

Clinical nutrition and intensive metabolic care is not a separate medical discipline, but combines all fields of clinical medicine in association with basic science. The progress in the clinical and scientific fields of clinical nutrition is enormous and the knowledge is more and more important that it has been in the past. The  combination of basic science and its implementation in practice is fascinating.

ESPEN places great emphasis on educating the younger generation of doctors, and the annual interactive courses have become very popular. We hope that the information provided to you in this course of clinical nutrition will add new qualities to your work and give you more satisfaction in your everyday practice.

You have a unique opportunity to meet and discuss with top experts in clinical nutrition and intensive metabolic care in an inspiring and intellectual environment, as well as to exchange your experience, ideas and plans with the like-minded colleagues.

We are looking forward to meeting you in Hradec Kralove.
Pavel Tesinsky
President, Czech Society of Clinical Nutrition and Intensive Metabolic Care

View 27th ESPEN Course Flyer here (PDF)

28th ESPEN Course in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism

The 28th ESPEN Course in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism will be held in Tallinn, Estonia from November 5-10, 2023.

ESPEN Course will provide a practical and broad insight in the field of nutrition care and help and enhance the skills of participants with provoking interdisciplinary case-discussions. Physicians- and other medical professionals from various specialties working in the field of clinical nutrition (nutritionists, dietitians, pharmacists) can apply to participate in the course, ESPEN members have priority.

50 applicants are accepted. Registration will take place on a first come first served basis.

45th ESPEN Congress Announcement

Lyon France, 11-14 September 2023

DEAR COLLEAGUES,

On behalf of the French-Speaking Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism (SFNCM), we would like to invite you to the 45th ESPEN Congress 2023 which will be held for the fourth time in France and for the first time in Lyon.

We would like to welcome all ESPEN delegates to the magnificent city of Lyon. Lyon is the second French city and is ideally located at the crossroads of Europe. You will enjoy discovering the city centre, the suroundings and the parks of this town as well as its two rivers (the Rhône and the Saône). Lyon is listed in the UNESCO World Heritage Register thanks to its Roman ruins and Renaissance buildings. Lyon is a major city for mixing culture and art with many museums and festivals. Lyon is also the city of gastronomy and is famous all over the world for the art of fine dining. Chef Paul Bocuse was one of the world-famous chefs who put Lyon on the culinary map. In Lyon, you can discover twenty one Michelin starred restaurants, but also the famous “Bouchon Lyonnais” which are very popular restaurants that must be tested and
whose food must be tasted. Next to the Convention Center, the city park ‘Parc de la Tête d’Or’ and the Rhône River will offer you the possibility to take a walk or a run after Congress sessions.

Thanks to all ESPEN Committee members, we are happy to offer you an attractive program with new advances in the fields of Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism but without forgetting education to improve our practice. Live healthY with Optimal Nutrition was our guiding thread to create this program.
We are convinced that the ESPEN 2023 programme offers a great opportunity for physicians, dietitians, pharmacists, nutritionists, scientists, nurses, and everyone involved in the field of nutrition and metabolism to meet and discuss cutting-edge science in an informal atmosphere, stimulate new collaborations and consolidate existing close partnerships.

We will be very happy to see you in Lyon in 2023!
 

Cécile Chambrier
Yves Boirie
Ronan Thibault

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6th ESPEN Symposium Perioperative Nutrition - Nottingham, UK

A very successful ESPEN Symposium united people from 12 countries who joined us for a fantastic meeting with focus on the Scientific basis of Perioperative Nutrition’

Join us next time!

109 people from 12 countries joined us for a fantastic meeting with focus on the Scientific basis of Perioperative Nutrition.

 

7th ESPEN Symposium 'How to best assess energy requirements?' celebrating 100 years of the Harris Benedict Equation click here for more information

The ESPEN Symposium goes virtual!

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April 18, 2021
LLL Course
on NUTRITION IN OBESITY

April 18 and 19, 2021
Symposium

Due to the ongoing pandemic situation, ESPEN has decided to transform the 8th ESPEN Symposium on Obesity and malnutrition, previously planned to be held in Istanbul, in a fully VIRTUAL EVENT. The content has been enhanced and updated with the important interactions between obesity and COVID-19. Save the date and plan to join this web Symposium!

TOPICS
• Weight control, central regulation and changes in body composition
• Sarcopenia, sarcopenic obesity and malnutrition
• New approaches in obesity management
• Bariatric surgery and outcomes
• Obesity, chronic diseases and nutritional aspects
• Covid-19, obesity and nutrition 

To re-visit the sessions in the ESPEN member section, become an ESPEN member.

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Via Orefici 4 - 40124 Bologna (Italy)
Ph. +39 051 230385 - info@noemacongressi.it - www.noemacongressi.it

9th ESPEN Symposium to be held virtually on November 7-8, 2022

The Science of Micronutrients in nutritional care

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15th ACCN Course of Clinical Nutrition

Application for Associate Editorship of Clinical Nutrition

The Editor-in-Chief of Clinical Nutrition, Prof. NEP Deutz, is pleased to announce that the call for Applications for Associate Editorship of Clinical Nutrition is open.

The closing date for applications is 30 April 2021.

Application form can be downloaded here

A decision will be made by the end of June 2021!

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/clinical-nutrition

Associate Editors Clinical Nutrition Journal

Dear members of ESPEN.

Our journals, Clinical Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, are recruiting new associate editors.

If you think your profile is suitable for the position, we are waiting for you! Please send completed application by email to Professor NEP Deutz, Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Nutrition (nep.deutz@ctral.org) .

Deadline April 30th, 2022.

Call for Papers - COVID and Nutrition

IMPORTANT UPDATE

Dear Colleagues,

at ESPEN and WHO/Europe we are very grateful for your high interest in this call, and for the many submissions received. We are confident this will significantly enhance evidence-based knowledge in the crucial field of nutrition for COVID-19 patients. As unfortunately the pandemic is still strongly affecting many parts of the world, we have decided to EXTEND THE DEADLINE for paper submission until May 1st 2021. We therefore further encourage you to collect your data on all aspects of nutrition in COVID-19 patients, as previously described, and to consider submitting them to Clinical Nutrition.

COVID-19 has posed huge healthcare, social and economic challenges worldwide during the past few months. Clinical outcome is poorer in several patient groups at risk for malnutrition. Persons with obesity are also at higher clinical risk. Nutritional care is therefore of utmost relevance in all COVID-19 patients and may play an important role also in disease prevention. Despite the relevance of nutritional research in COVID-19, available evidence is extremely limited. From over 75.000 publications on COVID-19 available in PubMed, only 1200 are retrieved when adding nutrition in the search, and just 169 when malnutrition is used as key-word.

Strengthening the evidence on the potential key role of nutritional status and nutritional care in COVID-19 is therefore an unmet clinical need and an urgent priority. ESPEN and World Health Organization Regional Office for Europe (WHO/Europe) have discussed this topic and agreed to open a call for papers on nutritional status and nutritional care in COVID-19 patients, to be hosted in the ESPEN Journals Clinical Nutrition and Clinical Nutrition ESPEN. The call will be guest-edited by ESPEN and WHO/Europe officers.

Submissions are encouraged on various aspects of nutrition and COVID-19 in all clinical settings (home-care, hospital wards, Intensive Care Unit - ICU) with special priority for (but not limited to):

- Malnutrition risk and diagnosis in COVID-19 patient cohorts and their impact on clinical outcome. 
- Special patient groups: older adults; chronic diseases including renal disease, heart disease, liver disease, cancer, diabetes and others; ICU.
- Medical nutrition treatment in COVID-19 patients and its impact on clinical outcomes in all clinical settings.
- Micronutrients status in COVID-19 patients and their impact on risk of infection and COVID-19 clinical outcome.
- Obesity and malnutrition in COVID-19 and their impact on outcome.
- Organization of nutritional assessment and nutritional care in all clinical settings to face the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Impact on nutrition-related policies during the COVID-10 pandemic including social and economic determinants.

All papers must be submitted to Clinical Nutrition with the article type: COVID-19 and if eligible for publication will be offered publication on either Clinical Nutrition or Clinical Nutrition ESPEN based on priority.

We hope and trust that this initiative will contribute to collect much-needed evidence on this very important but unfortunately largely neglected topic, with the ultimate goal to provide strong evidence for implementation of optimal nutritional care for COVID-19 patients and to continue nutrition promotion during the pandemic to achieve Sustainable Development Goal 2. 

ESPEN is very happy to announce the continuing growth of the impact factor of Clinical Nutrition, now reaching a fantastic 7,32 for 2020.

We are very grateful to the Editor-in-chief, and the whole editorial board, for their efforts that keep leading our Society to higher grounds and top scientific level. 

Combating childhood obesity in Europe and beyond - virtual public webinar

On Tuesday 16^th November (13.00-13.30 CET time/ 14:00-15:30 Moscow time), the WHO European Office for Prevention and Control of NCDs is hosting a virtual public webinar for the launch of 12 articles that analyse and explain COSI surveillance data gathered over more than 10 years in over 40 Member States. The WHO articles are also published as a special supplement in the Obesity Reviews journal. The virtual webinar will provide insights into the drivers of childhood obesity coming from data collected through the Childhood Obesity Surveillance Initiative (COSI) and include a panel discussion to discuss the importance of data surveillance networks – such as COSI - from a policy and governmental perspective.

Coronavirus, A word from ESPEN

The COVID-19 pandemics is posing unprecedented challenges and threats to patients and healthcare systems worldwide. The ESPEN community includes thousands of healthcare professionals that are primarily involved in fighting COVID-19, from ICUs to internal medicine Departments to general hospitals around the world. Saving lives from acute complications is the first goal for all of us. Still we need to remind ourselves and our non-nutritionist Colleagues that nutritional status and nutritional care play a very relevant role in defining both short- and long-term outcomes of our patients.

Unfortunately, we are being once more sadly reminded in the growing COVID-19 patient population that older, frail and comorbid individuals are those more at risk for negative outcomes, with major threats and risks arising from related malnutrition. We also know that patients surviving acute complications through long ICU stays will face further worsening or new onset of malnutrition and wasting.

Under difficult times of high pressure, and indeed all the more for that, we therefore must aim at following recommendations for best-practice in nutritional care to improve our patients outcomes. While we are finalizing further ad-hoc documents which will be available soon, you may refer to our recent and up-to-date material for direct guidance in nutritional care, including but not limited to ICU, polymorbid, geriatrics and home care nutrition patients.

Fully available educational material from our Lifelong Learning Programme LLL can also be found online and downloadable at lllnutrition.com.

Along with ESPEN’s commitment to provide support and guidance, we send you our heartfelt wishes in fighting this unprecedented battle.

Rocco Barazzoni                                Matthias Pirlich                                 Zeljko Krznaric

ESPEN Chairman                               ESPEN Secretary                               ESPEN Treasurer