Special Interest Groups

 

Nutrition in Surgery

Chairman:

Assistant Professor, Mihailo BEZMAREVIC, MD, PhD

Department of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Surgery, 

Clinic for General Surgery

Military Medical Academy

17 Crnotravska Street, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia

Email: bezmarevicm@gmail.com

 

Vice chair:

Professor em, Olle LJUNGQVIST, MD, PhD

Örebro University. Örebro,& Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

Email: olle.ljungqvist@me.com

 

Secretary:

Dr. Maria WOBITH, MD

Department of General, Visceral and Oncological Surgery

St. George Hospital

Delitzscher Straße 141, 04129 Leipzig, Germany

Email: maria.wobith@sanktgeorg.de

 

Members of SIG:

Mattias SOOP, MD, PhD

Department of IBD and Intestinal Failure Surgery

Karolinska University Hospital

SE 177 76 Stockholm, Sweden

Email: mattias.soop@ki.se

 

Professor Luca GIANOTTI, MD, PhD

School of Medicine and Surgery,

Milano - Bicocca University

San Gerardo Hospital

Via Pergolesi 33, 20900 Monza, Italy

Email: luca.gianotti@unimib.it

 

Professor Arved WEIMANN, MD, PhD

Department of General, Visceral and Oncological Surgery

St. George Hospital

Delitzscher Straße 141, 04129 Leipzig, Germany

Email: arved.Weimann@sanktgeorg.de

 

Professor Tomasz BANASIEWICZ

Department and Clinic of General Surgery, Endocrine Surgery, and Gastroenterological Oncology

Poznań University of Medical Sciences

Przybyszewskiego 49 Street, 60-355 Poznań, Poland

Email: tbanasiewicz@op.pl

 

Professor Dileep LOBO, MD, PhD

Professor of Gastrointestinal Surgery

University of Nottingham 

Email: Dileep.Lobo@nottingham.ac.uk

 

Assistant Professor Marcin FOLWARSKI, MD, PhD

Division of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, 

Medical University of Gdańsk

Home Nutrition Unit- Copernicus Hospital Gdańsk, 

Poland

Email: marcinfol@gmail.com

 

Mireille F.M. van STIJN, MD, PhD

Department of Anaesthesiology

Amsterdam University Medical Centre

Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Email: m.f.vanstijn@amsterdamumc.nl

 

Field of interest: Nutrition in surgery and perioperative care

 

Aims:

To participate in the ongoing education of professionals in these topics.

To provide up-to-date recommendations and guidelines in this field.

To attract surgeons and intensivists to ESPEN

To support clinical and epidemiological studies in the field.

Perspectives and actions:

Nearly 20 years ago, several members of ESPEN formed the SIG in perioperative nutrition, which later developed into the perioperative care SIG focusing on ERAS (Enhanced Recovery After Surgery). During the last few years, activity has decreased, coinciding with the development of other, specialised societies in the ERAS field. Anecdotally, attendance at ESPEN by surgeons has decreased.

During the recent 45th ESPEN Congress in Lyon, a renewed interest in nutrition in surgery was evident. It was also proposed that a „surgical“ SIG would form a forum within ESPEN for surgical traineees and specialists, highly valuable to grow the surgical contrinutions to ESPEN.

The goals of the proposed SIG are described above. Concrete actions proposed include:

  • Expert members of the SIG will update relevant ESPEN clincial recommendation and guidelines
  • The SIG will take responsibility for updating surgical LLL programmes, including a chapter on surgical oncology.
  • The SIG will support the SciCom and the EduCom in developing the ESPEN Congress programme, to ensure high-quality and current surgical content.

Composition of the group:

The core group will be 9 above mentioned ESPEN members. In addition the SIG will welcome as member any ESPEN member with an interest in nutrition in surgery. 

Meetings of the AIF group:

The group convenes for at least one meeting every year. This meeting in person will take place during ESPEN Congress. ESPEN will be asked to provide a suitable meeting room for the group. The group will organize an online meetings depending on the needs.

 

Membership criteria: 

Members of the SIG Surgery is open for members of ESPEN.

 

Financial and other support:

The group will not ask ESPEN for provision the financial support. This question will be revisited as project may need financial support.

 

 

 

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