For more information on the event visit: http://www.scandpg.org/e-learning-and-events/2013-symposium/

Featured are more than 20 skill-based sessions and 30+ speakers, including Dr. Richard Deming, Dr. Steven Heymsfield, Dr. Penny Kris-Etherton, Jessica Setnick, Dr. Carol Ireton-Jones and many more. Gain knowledge about hot topics in such areas as hyperlipidemia, eating disorders, sports nutrition, cardiovascular nutrition, corporate wellness, body composition, media training, and social media.

Thanks to everyone who has signed up to be a part of the GI SubUnit (or whatever we will call this!). My goal for this group is to provide an opportunity for discussion and sharing of information for GI clients that may or may not require nutrition support.

Recent articles related to pediatric nutrition support:

Al-Zubeidi D, Rahhal RM.  Prospective randomized comparative study of low-profile balloon gastrostomy tubes in children.  Nutrition in Clinical Practice.  2012;27:812-816.

Bathgate JR.  Feeding conjoined twins with suspected milk protein allergy.   Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition.  2012;4:381-384.

El Sakka A, Imam SS, El Barbarfy M, et al.  Does type of infant feeding affect phototherapy for neonatal hyperbilirubinemia?  Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition.  2012;4:334-339. 

Eating healthy and exercising is important for transplant recipients as the side-effects of anti-rejection medications can put them at risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol.

Transplantliving.org is a wonderful online resource to share with your transplant patients and their caregivers. In addition to providing general information about the transplant process, diseases, organ facts, statistics, financing a transplant, medications, etc., the website is a place for patients to join support groups and obtain information on healthy living.

Madden, K., H. A. Feldman, E. M. Smith, C. M. Gordon, S. M. Keisling, R. M. Sullivan, B. W. Hollis, A. A. Agan, and A. G. Randolph. 2012. Vitamin D deficiency in critically ill children. Pediatrics 130 (3) (Sep): 421-8.

McNally, J. D., K. Menon, P. Chakraborty, L. Fisher, K. A. Williams, O. Y. Al-Dirbashi, D. R. Doherty, and Canadian Critical Care Trials Group. 2012. The association of vitamin D status with pediatric critical illness. Pediatrics 130 (3) (Sep): 429-36.

DNS is pleased to offer a Student Scholarship which enables an undergraduate or a graduate student in the field of nutrition/dietetics to attend a nutrition support related conference. One scholarship in the amount of $500 is awarded each year to help cover conference registration and travel expenses.

For more details, please see the attached information letter and scholarship application form.

Please send completed application materials and direct your questions to the Nominating Committee Apprentice, Tamara Karosanidze, at tk7d@virginia.edu

Student Scholarship application deadline is January 15, 2013.

See the attahced announcement.  For more information visit www.npuap.org

This is a timely article for food safety guidelines for patients after solid organ transplantation. Go here for the link to the abstract!

http://ncp.sagepub.com/content/27/6/758.abstract

R. Dickerson, S. Pitts, G. Maish III, T. Schroeppel, L. Magnotti, M.A. Croce, G. Minard, Brown R. A reappraisal of nitrogen requirements for patients with criticalillness and trauma. J Trauma Actue Care Surg. 2012. 73:549-57.