ASPEN Podcasts

This video honors Dr. Maitreyi Raman, Associate Professor of Medicine at the Foothills Medical Centre in Calgary, Alberta in Canada. She is also the Medical Director of the Southern Alberta Home Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition Program. After completing her nutrition fellowship around 2004, she noticed that there were very few nutrition-focused clinician/scientists within the gastroenterology land...

This video honors Dr. Christian Stoppe, Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care at the University of Würzburg in Germany. His journey to nutrition began when fellow ASPEN member, Dr. Daren Heyland, invited him out to dinner and asked for his opinion on a potential clinical trial collaboration. Dr. Stoppe’s overarching purpose for his research is to imp...

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Jeanette Hasse, interviews Stephen Adams and Dr. Joseph Boullata, two of the authors of the ASPEN Consensus Statement “Safe care transitions for patients receiving parenteral nutrition” published in the June 2022 issue of NCP. June 2022 Business Corporate by Alex Menco | alexmenco.net Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 U...

This podcast reviews blenderized tube feeding, what it is, where it is indicated, and some clinical recommendations from two clinical experts with extensive experience with adult and pediatric patients. This podcast also highlights an upcoming ASPEN clinical recommendations paper on this topic. This podcast is sponsored by Nutricia North America. Business Corporate by Alex Menco | alexmenco.net Mu...

This podcast highlights an abstract presented at ASPEN22 which examined the experience of Nutrition Care team members using a novel sterile bottle of HMF. The experts discuss the challenges in the safe and efficient use of human breast milk and human milk fortifier (HMF) in the care of high-risk infants and why novel technology may be beneficial. They also touch upon future directions in human mil...

Dr. Kelly Tappenden interviews Dr. Johanna Eliasson, Department of Intestinal Failure and Liver Diseases, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark, discussing her paper “Apraglutide, a novel glucagon-like peptide 2 analog, improves fluid absorption in patients with short bowel syndrome intestinal failure: findings from a placebo-controlled, randomized phase 2 trial”. Bus...

This video honors 2022 ASPEN Lifetime Achievement Award winner, Dr. Ezra Steiger, emeritus professor of surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. Dr. Steiger’s journey to nutrition began as an intern at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He worked with ASPEN legends — Drs. Jonathan Rhoads, Harry Vars, and Stanley Dudrick — in the new science of intravenous feeding and surgical nutrition. He sh...

In this podcast, Editor-in-Chief Dr. Jeanette Hasse, interviews Dr. Sylvia Rinaldi and Janet Madill on their review paper “Nutrition Implications of Restrictive Lung Disease” published in the April 2022 issue of NCP. The text included in the description of the podcast Business Corporate by Alex Menco | alexmenco.net Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unport...

In this podcast, Contributing Editor Berkeley Limketkai, MD, PhD, interviews Dr. Ajay Jain on the article “Beyond Lipids: Novel Mechanisms for Intestinal Failure-Associated Liver Disease” published in the April 2022 issue of NCP. The text included in the description of the podcast Business Corporate by Alex Menco | alexmenco.net Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attributi...

Dr. Kelly Tappenden interviews Dr. Esther Neelis, a pediatric resident at Erasmus Medical Center in the Netherlands, discussing the gut microbiota and its diet-related activity in children with intestinal failure (IF) receiving parenteral nutrition (PN) compared with those of healthy controls (HC) and in relation to disease characteristics. Business Corporate by Alex Menco | alexmenco.net Music pr...

This video honors Dr. Ajay Jain, Professor of Pediatrics, Pharmacology, and Physiology at St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO. His journey to nutrition began in medical school where he cared for babies needing parenteral nutrition (PN). While PN sustained them, many had liver injuries that progressed as they stayed on PN and needed liver transplants. This motivated Dr. Jain to focus on novel strat...

Dr. Kelly Tappenden interviews Drs. Felix Harpain, Lukas Schlager, and Christopher Dawoud of the Department of General Surgery of the Medical University of Vienna, discussing the integrating SBS-IF patients treated with teduglutide in a proactive and tight-meshed patient care program significantly improves the clinical outcome, leading to an increased proportion of patients reaching enteral autono...

In this podcast, Contributing Editor Berkeley Limketkai, MD, PhD, interviews Dr. Chet Morrison and Maya Morrison on the article “For You Were Hungry and I Gave You Food: The Prevalence and Treatment of Malnutrition in Patients with Acute Hip Fracture” published in the February 2022 issue of NCP. The text included in the description of the podcast Business Corporate by Alex Menco | alexmenco.net Mu...

In this podcast, Contributing Editor Berkeley Limketkai, MD, PhD, interviews Jeffrey Mechanick, MD, Chair of the ASPEN Physician Engagement Committee (PEC), on the new collaboration between the PEC and NCP. The text included in the description of the podcast Business Corporate by Alex Menco | alexmenco.net Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License...

In this podcast, Dr. Jeanette Hasse, interviews Jay Mirtallo and Wendy Phillips on their research paper “Update on Use of Enteral and Parenteral Nutrition in Hospitalized Patients with a Diagnosis of Malnutrition in the United States” published in the February 2022 issue of NCP. The text included in the description of the podcast Business Corporate by Alex Menco | alexmenco.net Music promoted by w...

This video honors Dr. Lillian Harvey Banchik, volunteer surgeon for the Medical Reserve Corp in San Diego, CA and past president of the National Board for Nutrition Support Certification (NBNSC). Dr. Banchik talks about the evolution of nutrition and its vital impact on patient recovery. She feels there is a lack of respect for nutrition as a specialty, which she believes is caused by a lack of nu...

In this podcast, Dr. Kelly Tappenden interviews Dr. Liam McKeever, ASPEN Clinical Guideline Director and Editor-in-Chief, discussing the new publication “Guidelines for the provision of nutrition support therapy in the adult critically ill patient: The American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition”. Dr. McKeever describes the background and methodology of the guideline and elaborates on th...

This video honors Paul Wischmeyer, MD, EDIC, FCCM, FASPEN, Professor of Anesthesiology and Surgery, in the division of Critical Care Medicine at Duke University in Durham, NC. Dr. Wischmeyer’s nutrition journey began in high school when he was diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease and was on parenteral nutrition for a year. Many of the medicine he was given had severe side effects. It motivate...

This video honors Jose Pimiento, MD, FACS, Associate Professor of Surgery, in the division of Gastrointestinal Oncology, at the Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, FL. Dr. Pimiento had the honor of training with Dr. Stanley Dudrick, the father of intravenous feeding. He shares some of Dr. Dudrick’s philosophy that as a surgeon, you need to be capable of handling everything, including the nutrition of...

In November 2020, the Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Advisory contractors retired the Local Coverage Determinants (LCDs) for home parenteral and enteral nutrition (PEN). On September 5, 2021 new LCDs took effect after close to 4 decades of no change. This podcast discusses the new LCDs, what it means for home PEN patients and home providers. It also addresses the challenges that still exist in...

Lipid injectable emulsions (ILEs) are complex pharmaceutical formulations intended as a source of energy and fatty acids for parenteral nutrition (PN). Part 1 of this series addressed adult use. Part 2 addresses ILE safety in neonatal and pediatric patients, who often require higher doses compared with adults to support growth, development, and daily metabolic needs. ILE is often administered as a...

Dr. Kelly Tappenden interviewed Dr. Moriah Bellissimo on her Harry Vars Award-winning study that explored the novel use of plasma high-resolution metabolomics data to examine associations of lean mass with circulating amino acids in clinically stable working adults. They discuss the potential indicators of catabolism and repair after illness and injury. November 2021 Business Corporate by Alex Men...

Guest Editor, Manpreet S. Mundi, MD interviews Dr. Yaseen M. Arabi, MD discussing the main points in the paper "Nutrition Support for Critically ill Patients”. Business Corporate by Alex Menco | alexmenco.net Music promoted by www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US November 2021

This Spotlight honors David S. Seres, MD, ScM, PNS, FASPEN, director of the Medical Nutrition Program and associate professor of medicine in the Institute of Human Nutrition at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. He has over 30 years of experience in nutrition support consulting, clinical research, and teaching. He’s currently the section editor for nutrition at UpToDate. Dr. Sere...

This podcasts discussed a sentinel paper, Malnutrition Diagnoses and Associated Outcomes in Hospitalized Patients: United States, 2018, looking at the most current HCUP (Healthcare Cost Utilization Project) data on malnutrition in hospitalized patients. The data confirms that malnutrition is prevalent in hospitalized patients and is associated with higher readmission rates, inpatient mortality and...