Dear DNS Members,

Please review this topic summary and the attached Executive Summary on Public Health Nutrition - It's Every Member's Business. Here's an overview:

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Are you interested in attending a confernce or professional meeting, but lack sufficient funding to get yourself there?  If so, consider applying for the DNS Professional Development Scholarship.  Two scholarships in the amounts of $1250 and $1000 will be awarded this fall.  See the attached information letter and scholarship application form for more details. 

Application deadline is midnight, October 1, 2012.  Please send completed application materials or direct any questions to the Nominating Committee Associate, Britta Brown at britta.brown@hcmed.org.  Thank you!

Looks like folks have been busy enjoying all those great Summer activities!

Unfortunately, that means there hasn't been much time to respond to our survey. So we've extended the deadline to give more of you a chance to let us know how we're doing and how DNS can improve our member benefits.

See if you can find a moment or two to click here to take a brief 10-question survey  We'd appreciate hearing from you!

Skillman HE, Mehta NM. Nutrition therapy in the critically ill child. Curr Opin Crit Care. 2012;18(2):192-198.

1. Diamond IR, Pencharz PB, Feldman BM, Ling SC, Moore AM, Wales PW. Novel lipid-based approaches to pediatric intestinal failure-associated liver disease. Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 2012;166(5):473-478.

2. Leaf A, Dorling J, Kempley S, et al. Early or delayed enteral feeding for preterm growth-restricted infants: A randomized trial. Pediatrics. 2012;129(5):e1260-8.

3. Modi BP, Jaksic T. Pediatric intestinal failure and vascular access. Surg Clin North Am. 2012;92(3):729-43, x.

4. Naini BV, Lassman CR. Total parenteral nutrition therapy and liver injury: A histopathologic study with clinical correlation. Hum Pathol. 2012;43(6):826-833.

                In the United States (US), more than 400,000 individuals suffer from End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Currently, more than 99,000 are on the national transplant waiting list to receive a kidney. There is a serious shortage of donor organs and researchers around the country have been working hard to find a solution to this problem.

                 Regenerative medicine investigators at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center in North Carolina hope to utilize pig kidneys as “support structures” or “scaffolds” to engineer new kidneys for humans. 

Have your patients been asking about "bedsores"?

Let Heather Breen, MD, RD guide you through physical examination techniques and how to interpret laboratry findings.

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Recent publications related to pediatric nutrition support:

Adamkin DH. Mother’s milk, feeding strategies, and lactoferin to prevent necrotizing enterocolitis (Review). JPEN. 2012;36 (1Suppl):25S-20S.

Arsenault D, Brenn M, Kim S, Gura K, Compher C, Simpser E. American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition Board of Directors, Puder M. A.S.P.E.N. Clinical Guidelines:   hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia in the neonate receiving parenteral nutrition. JPEN. 2012;36:81-95.

Bartels CL, Sanz C, Stec R, Coulter DW. Parenteral nutrition-induced hypersensitivity in an adolescent. JPEN. 2012;36:117-121. 

Join Dietitians in Nutrition Support and the Academy's Coding and Coverage Committee for a Pre-FNCE workshop, Saturday Oct 6, 2012 11:30 AM - 3:30 PM

Presenters: Margaret Garner,MS RD LD; Lucille Beseler MS, RD, LD, CDE; Lindsay Dowhan, MS, RD, LD, CNSC, CSO; Mary Marian, MS, RD, CSO; and Diane Machcinski MEd RD

CPE Level: 3               Learning Need Codes: 3080, 3090, 7120, 7170