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NY/LISPEN 2023 Fall Conference:

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Tools for Improving Health and Healing

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Join us on Tuesday October 24th, 2023 @ 

The Holiday Inn in Plainview

215 Sunnyside Blvd

Plainview, NY 11803

Registration starts from 8:00-8:45 AM

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Topics include:
  • The True Purpose of Nutrition – Metabolic Health and Ultra-processed Foods by Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL
  • Optimization of Nutritional Status in Gastroparesis by Kristen M Roberts, PhD, RD, LD, CNSC, FASPEN, FAND
  • Small Bowel Bacterial Overgrowth by Erin L. Toto, MD
  • Intravenous Lipid Emulsions: Nutrition or Therapeutic Modality? by Kathleen M. Gura PharmD, BCNSP, FASPEN 
  • A Closer Look at Nutrition and Pressure Injuries by Mary D. Litchford PhD, RDN, LDN
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ONLINE REGISTRATION WILL CLOSE ON  Monday, October 23th at 6:00 PM 
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If you miss the deadline to register online, you must register at the door with cash or check!
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 Please choose the current ticket pricing.  You must be a NY/LISPEN Chapter Member to receive the discounted Chapter Member Rate.  Proof of student ID is required for the student rate.

 

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Course Goal and Target Audience

NY/LISPEN’s goal is to encourage lifelong learning in all disciplines of nutrition support professionals by providing current, evidence-based educational conferences.

Successful Completion

To obtain full credit for this course, attendees must attend 5 hours of education and complete course evaluation.

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NY/LISPEN Annual Fall Conference – October 24, 2023 Tools for Improving Health and Healing

8:00-8:45 AM

8:45-9:00 AM

Registration, Continental Breakfast and Exhibits

President’s welcome – Brooke McCaffrey, MS, RDN, CNSC

9:00-10:00 AM

The True Purpose of Nutrition

Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology; Member, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco

Learning Objectives: Describe the difference between food science, nutrition, and metabolic health; Verbalize the rationale for the three precepts of metabolic health: feed the gut, protect the liver, support the brain; Discuss why ultra-processed food is not food currently, but could be re-engineered to provide metabolic health.

10:00-11:00 AM

Optimization of Nutritional Status in Gastroparesis

Kristen M. Roberts, PhD, RDN, CNSC, FASPEN, FAND Associate Professor- Clinical Medicine, OSU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences-Medical Dietetics; OSU Wexner Medical Center Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Columbus, OH

Learning Objectives: Describe gastric physiology and the diagnostic criteria for gastroparesis; Verbalize the evidence supporting nutritional interventions in gastroparesis; Demonstrate critical thinking by exploring complex cases of gastroparesis.

11:00-11:15 AM

Questions

11:15-11:30 AM

Coffee/Water Break, Exhibits

11:30 AM-12:30 PM

Update on Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth

Erin L. Toto, MD Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology – Neurogastroenterology & Motility subsection, University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Learning Objectives: Define SIBO and its clinical presentation; Discuss diagnostic testing strategies and their limitations; Identify treatment options for SIBO, including nutritional therapies, herbal therapies, and pharmacologic therapies.

12:30-1:15 PM

Lunch and Exhibits ("punch cards" for raffle prizes)

1:15-1:30 PM

Announcements and raffle; prize winners

1:30-2:30 PM

Intravenous Lipid Emulsions: Nutrition or Therapeutic Modality?

Kathleen M. Gura PharmD, BCNSP, FASPEN Manager, Clinical Research, Department of Pharmacy, Boston Children's Hospital Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA

Learning Objectives: Describe what's common to all intravenous lipid emulsions (ILE); Identify how to interpret a fatty acid profile as it relates to ILE use; Discuss the evidence that support the use of one type of ILE over another in various disease states

2:30-3:30 PM

A Closer Look at Nutrition and Pressure Injuries

Mary D. Litchford PhD, RDN, LDN President, CASE Software & Books; Consultant, Healthcare & Dining Services, Wellspring Healthcare; CMC Manager, Training & Development; Director, Dietetics Programs, University of North Carolina Greensboro

Learning Objectives: Describe the relationship between malnutrition, sarcopenia, and risk for pressure injuries and slow wound healing; Identify risk for or presence of micronutrient deficiencies in patients with pressure injuries; Integrates foundational dietetics knowledge with critical appraisal of assessment data to diagnose nutrition problems, which can be resolved or improved through treatment or nutrition intervention.

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Our Speakers

Robert H. Lustig, MD, MSL

Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology; Member, Institute for Health Policy Studies, University of California, San Francisco

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Kristen M. Roberts, PhD, RDN, CNSC, FASPEN, FAND

Associate Professor- Clinical Medicine, OSU School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences-Medical Dietetics; OSU Wexner Medical Center Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Columbus, OH

Erin L. Toto, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology – Neurogastroenterology & Motility subsection, University of Pennsylvania / Penn Medicine, Philadelphia, PA

Kathleen M. Gura PharmD, BCNSP, FASPEN

Manager, Clinical Research, Department of Pharmacy, Boston Children's Hospital Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston MA

Mary D. Litchford PhD, RDN, LDN

President, CASE Software & Books; Consultant, Healthcare & Dining Services, Wellspring Healthcare; CMC Manager, Training & Development; Director, Dietetics Programs, University of North Carolina Greensboro

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