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May 19, 2020
Speaker:
Jeremy Nightingale, MD, St. Mark's Hospital, UK

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Presentation Objectives:
  • Describe the clinical features of patients with SBS-IF and jejunostomies
  • Discuss the steps in medical treatment of the high output stoma patient
  • Summarize current outcomes in this group of patients
May 5, 2020
Speaker:
Carol Rees Parrish, MS, RDN, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA

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Presentation Objectives:
  • List the clinician's role in preparing a patient for PN weaning.
  • Identify the clues that may suggest it is time for a weaning trial.
  • Discuss the nutrition and hydration weaning options available to clinician and patient.
April 21, 2020
Speaker:
Dejan Micic, MD, The University of Chicago

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Presentation Objectives:
  • Describe the principles of preparing to discharge patients on PN
  • Implement best practices for teaching patients/ care-providers how to manage HPN
  • Describe best practices for prevention of common PN complications
April 7, 2020
Speaker:
Vanessa Kumpf, PharmD, BCNSP, FASPEN, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN

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Presentation Objectives:
  • Articulate the steps in preparing a patient for home parenteral nutrition (HPN)
  • Describe the steps for safe discharge on HPN
  • Develop a plan for laboratory monitoring of patients on HPN
March 17, 2020
Speaker:
Carol Semrad, MD, The University of Chicago

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Presentation Objectives:
  • Identify indications for commencing parenteral nutrition (PN)
  • Identify contraindications to commencing PN
  • Analyze clinical, financial and social constraints to commencing PN
February 18, 2020
Speaker:
Kishore Iyer, MBBS, FRCS, FACS, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, NY

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Presentation Objectives:
  • Determine the current and expanding indications for intestinal transplantation for SBS/IF
  • Describe the  choice of allograft organs in intestinal transplant
  • Summarize outcomes for intestinal transplantation in the modern era
February 4, 2020
Speaker:
Palle Jeppesen, MD, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark

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Presentation Objectives:
  • Describe the principles of growth factor therapy in intestinal adaptation using teduglutide as the prototype growth factor
  • Summarize results of recent Phase 2 trials with long-acting growth factors in intestinal failure
  • Explain the future landscape for growth factor therapy in intestinal failure
January 21, 2020
Speaker:
Francisca Joly, MD, University of Paris, France

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Presentation Objectives:
  • Describe the use of growth factors in SBS/IF
  • Identify contraindications to use of growth factors in SBS/IF
  • Analyze current real-world experience with use of growth factor therapy in SBS/IF
January 7, 2020
Speaker:
Kelly Tappenden, PhD, RD, FASPEN, University of Illinois at Chicago

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Presentation Objectives:
  • Describe the interplay of probiotics and intestinal adaptation
  • Summarize the role of short chain fatty acids and diet in intestinal adaptation
  • Identify current areas of research in intestinal adaptation