BAPEN Life Membership
‘Life membership’ is a gift of the Association that is rarely awarded. There are only 7 recipients to date. This would only be considered for truly exceptional individuals. This does not have a regular nominations process, but any potential recipient would be considered on an ad hoc basis by the Executive and Council.
Recipients to date:
- 2016 – Professor Mike Stroud
- 2014 – Jennie Mort
- 2013 – Ken Cottam
- 2012 – Christine Russell
- 2011 – Professor David Silk
- 2008 – Professor Marinos Elia
- 2007 – Carolyn Wheatley
- 2004 – Professor John Lennard-Jones
A unique collaboration between Nutricia Advanced Medical Nutrition and BAPEN, the BAPEN Nutricia Award has been established for over 15 years. The award is aimed at providing funding and support for research and best practice in the field of clinical nutrition. Each year Healthcare Professionals and Researchers are invited to apply with a research or best practice project. The award often takes a theme each year to encourage research and best practice in different areas of clinical practice and interest. All researchers and healthcare workers based within the United Kingdom who are actively involved in clinical nutrition are eligible and encouraged to apply. Applications are judged anonymously by a select panel from BAPEN and the research team at Nutricia. The winner of each award receives a set monetary amount to fund their proposed project and a paid place at the BAPEN Annual Conference to receive their award on stage.
A list of previous winners and runners up of the BAPEN Nutricia Award are provided below. For further information on future BAPEN Nutricia awards and how to apply please contact Dr Abbie Cawood on medical_affairs_enquiries@nutricia.com.
Winners:
Christine Federico & Emma Kaye
Location: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
Title of Project: To implement and evaluate a nutrition support pathway for fractured neck of femur patients aged over 70 year’s.
Dr Luise Marino, Dr Mark Beattie, Mark Cullen and Nicky Heather
Job title: University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
Title of Project: To explore the feasibility of using My Health Vault, a digital health platform as a monitoring tool in children with IBD.
Winners:
Dr Laura Wyness
Job title: Senior Research Fellow, Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
Title of Project: An exploratory study to determine the prevalence of different nutritional and functional states occurring in older adults living in a community setting and to explore screening measurements to complement ‘MUST’
Co-investigators: Dr Elaine Bannerman and Jacklyn Jones
Winners:
Rachel Cooke
Job title: Nutrition and Dietetics Department, Bristol Royal Infirmary
Title of Project: Improving nutritional care: Implementing regular nutrition screening audits and education for ward staff.
Co-investigators: Claire Merchant
Runners up:
Sorrel Burden and Ruth Brierly, Manchester Royal Infirmary. Working with the multi-professional ward team to improve integrated care plans and improve first line nutritional support actions.
Winners:
Helen Reilly
Job title: Professional Lead for Dietetics, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust
Title of Project: Good practice in supporting high quality nutritional care in acute hospitals.
Co-investigators: Magdalena Kot, Lynne Friend, Corinne Wilkinson, Rachel Lees and Jo Richmond
Runners up:
Silver award: Sian Lewis, Eva Glass, Jackie Jordan. Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff. Nutrition screening in upper gastro-intestinal oncology outpatient clinics.
Bronze award: Alison Howard and Rupali Shah. Churchill Hospital, Oxford. Developing guidance on enteral tube feeding routes following head and neck cancer surgery.
Winners:
Stephanie Wakefield
Job title: Specialist upper GI dietitian, Imperial College Healthcare Trust, St Mary’s Hospital, London
Title of Project: The prevalence of micro-nutrient deficiencies in upper gastro-intestinal cancer patients after treatment with surgery and chemotherapy
Winners:
Sue Green
Location: Southampton
Title of Project: Screening for Malnutrition by Community Nurses: Barriers and facilitation
Co-investigators: Mandy Fader, Sue Latter and Michelle Sutcliffe
Runners up:
Dr Rachael Barlow, Mr Gary Howell, Dr Matt Wise, Mr Wyn Lewis. Cardiff, Wales. ‘Nutrition in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal cancer surgery, a prospective randomised control trial of ‘tight’ glycaemic and fluid management’
Winners:
Nick Wood
Location: Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust
Title of Project: Pre-operative oral carbohydrate loading in gynaecological oncology surgery – a randomised controlled trial
Co-investigators: Sean Duffy, David Nugent, Nic Orsi and Deniz Al-Hirmizy
Runners up:
Dr John Leeds, Dr Mark McAlindon and Dr David Sanders. Gastroenterology & Liver Unit, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield. ‘Can a scoring System Improve Patient Selection and Outcome Following PEG Insertion?’
Rachael Barlow, Miss Sue Hill, Professor Tricia Price, Kate Rowlands, Ceri Harris and Mr Malcolm Puntis
Cardiff and Vale NHS Trust, Wales
‘A randomised trial of routine enteral nutrition in the immediate post- operative phase versus conventional management in patients undergoing lower limb amputation’
Winners:
Michelle Davies
Job title: Senior Research Nurse, Haematology and Transplant Unit, Christie Hospital, Manchester
Title of Project: A prospective randomised controlled trial comparing enteral naso-jejunal feeding with oral diet in reduced intensity conditioning (RIC) bone marrow transplant patients
Runners up:
Dr Richard Johnston, Department of Gastroenterology, Derby City General Hospital
‘The effect of n-3 PUFA supplementation in non-diabetic patients with steatosis due to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease’
Dr Clare Reid, Research Dietitian University Department of Anaesthesia, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge.
‘Relationship between gut hormones, tolerance to nutritional support and recovery of appetite in critically ill patients’
Winners:
Rebecca Hartley
Job title: Senior Dietitian, Dietetic Department, Papworth NHS Trust, Cambridge
Title of Project: The Impact of a bedside Computerised Information System on the adequacy of Nutritional Support in Critically Ill Patients – A single prospective non-randomised study
Runners up:
Lowri Lloyd-Jones, Head of Wirral primary Care Dietetic Services at St Catherine’s Hospital, Birkenhead. The role of EPA enriched nutritional supplements in patients with cancer cachexia: A community based audit to identify the influence of EPA enriched supplements on nutritional status of cancer patients
Michelle Davies, Senior Haematology Research Nurse, The Christie Hospital, Manchester
A comparative survey of practice, knowledge and attitudes of artificial feeding methods in patients undergoing peripheral blood stem cell transplant in the United Kingdom (U.K.)
Winners:
Lucy Martin
Job title: Dietitian – Bristol Royal Infirmary
Title of Project: The development of a dependency score to be used by a dietitian working with patients on a home enteral tube feeding scheme to assess case dependency
Co-investigators: Alison Chadwick and Amanda Judd
Winners:
Caroline Anderson
Job title: Paediatric Dietitian – Southampton General Hospital
Title of Project: A pilot study of energy expenditure and energy requirements in children with chronic renal failure
Runners up:
Grace Chau, Senior Dietitian – Royal Gwent Hospital
‘The current management of glycaemic control in patients with diabetes requiring nutrition support’
Alisa Brotherton, Research Dietitian – University of Central Lancashire
‘Protocol for psychometric validation of a preliminary PEG quality of life tool’
Winners:
Ann Ashworth
Job title: Dietitian – Torbay
Title of Project: Pilot study to compare nutritional intake of orthopaedic patients supplemented with snacks or oral nutritional supplements
Runners up:
Muriel Gall, Senior Dietitian – Darent Valley Hospital, Kent
‘Decision making and PEG placement – from the patients’ perspective, are we getting it right?’
Christine Mossor SRD – St Helier’s Hospital, Surrey and Lin Perry PhD RGN, City University, London
‘The functioning of taste and smell in older adults and following acute stroke’
Josephine Garvey, Senior Paediatric Dietitian – Royal Free Hospital, London
‘Study to investigate the benefits of modulating the gut flora with prebiotics
in children with chronic constipation’
Winners:
Carol Welch
Job title: Nurse
Title of Project: To investigate whether changing the mealtime environment to one which supports a patient-centred approach to care will improve nutritional status in older people
Runners up:
Lynne Douglas, Chief Dietitian – Edinburgh Royal Infirmary
“A prospective cohort study to establish economic, nutritional and quality of life benefits of jejunostomy feeding in patients with oesophago/gastric cancer”
Justine Sharpe, Senior Dietitian – St Peter’s Hospital , Chertsey, Surrey
“A randomised controlled study comparing high dietary fibre advice with or without fibre supplementation, in the treatment of simple childhood constipation for infants between 1-6 years”
David Hopkins, Senior Dietitian – Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
“Placement of nasjejunal feeding tubes on ITU – A proposed audit after implementation of evidence based guidelines”
Winners:
Sara Martin
Job title: Dietitian, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh
Title of Project: To investigate the effects of exercise optimisation of nutritional support and its impact on quality of life, appetite and functional parameters in haemodialysis patients.
Runners up:
Clare Reid – Charing Cross Hospital, London
“Pilot study to determine the timescale of skeletal muscle repletion and the influence of intensive nutritional support following discharge from the ICU.”
Alison Culkin – St Marks Hospital, London
“A double blind randomised controlled crossover trial of glutamine supplementation in home parenteral nutrition.”
Sue Ramsay – Panmore Edwards Hospital, Liskeard
“A study to identify the appropriate use of prescribed nutritional supplements for elderly patients in nursing homes.”
‘Roll of Honour’ was introduced in 2008. This is the gift of Council for any member who has given “over and above” for BAPEN in the preceding year. As a general principle just being a committee Chair or a member of Council, for example, will not necessarily be sufficient. BAPEN is very keen that individuals outside of Council are identified and rewarded, e.g. Regional Reps who have run a successful meeting. Nominations for the Roll of Honour need to be submitted to the Secretary by 31st August each year for consideration and bestowal at the October/November conference.
Recipients:
Kamini Gadhok MBE
Awarded for: Support given to BAPEN (via CAPA) on the subject of PPE
Joe Kerin
Awarded for: For support to the national response to PN shortages
Heather Weaver
Awarded for: For support to HPN services nationally over a number of years and the national response to PN shortages
Chris Mountford
Awarded for: Work on strengthening the financial governance and stability of BAPEN and his previous work on BAPEN Medical and BAPEN Medical trainees committee
Sarah-Jane Nelson (Hughes)
Awarded for: Work on the Intestinal Failure Registry
Kate Hall
Awarded for: Work on developing and launching the BAPEN values
Andrew Rochford
Awarded for: Work on developing the updated BAPEN Strategy and his service to BAPEN Exec and BAPEN Medical over the years
Recipient:
Elizabeth Weeks
Awarded for: For ongoing commitment to the activities of BAPEN since 1996
Recipient:
Dr Sorrel Burden
Awarded for: For her work on MUST, MUST Licensing and Copyright.
Recipients:
Kate Hall and Dr Nicola Burch
Awarded for: Kate for her work on developing Malnutrition Awareness Week and Nicola for her work organising BAPEN Medical study days and her major contribution to BAPEN Executive and her role as BAPEN Treasurer
Recipient:
Margy Thomson, Bruno Mafrici
Awarded for: Margy Thomson, BAPEN Scotland committee member for her assistance in the organisation of their study days; Bruno Mafrici for his contribution to the PENG Pocket Guide to Clinical Nutrition
Recipient:
James Fletcher, Kate Cheema & Jo Wheeler
Recipients:
Sean White & Sarah Zeraschi
Recipients:
Liz Harrison and Andrea Cartwright
Awarded for: Liz Harrison for her work with BAPEN Medical trainees; Andrea Cartwright for her work on BAPEN Executive and with BAPEN membership in general
Recipient:
Steve Brown, Barbara Davidson, Kate Hall & Christopher Mountford
Awarded for: For their work and contribution to BAPEN
Recipients:
Dr Ruth McKee & Faye Eagle
Awarded for: Ruth for her work for BAPEN over many years including BAPEN Medical and Faye for her work as Publisher and for her editorial contribution to In Touch.
Recipients:
Anne Holdoway & Pete Turner
Awarded for: For their outstanding contribution to the delivery of BAPEN’s Annual Conference at DDF 2012
Recipients:
Dr Janet Baxter
Awarded for: For her work for BAPEN over many years including BIFA and BANS
Geoff Simmonett
Awarded for: His work with PINNT and long service representing patients in BAPEN with unflagging commitment and humour
Recipients:
Geoff Simmonett
Awarded for: His work with PINNT and long service representing patients in BAPEN with unflagging commitment and humour
Ailsa Brotherton
Awarded for: For her work for BAPEN on the Quality group and publication of the Malnutrition Matters commissioning toolkit
Recipients:
Dr Nicola Simmonds
Awarded for: For her work developing e-learning modules for FY1 and FY2 doctors
Peter Austin
Awarded for: South Regional Rep, for his efforts on the organisation and successes of the Southern Region BAPEN meetings
Recipients:
Dr Barry Jones
Awarded for: His very considerable input as Chair of BANS over several years and its increasing success and profile
Mrs Ann Mickelwright
Awarded for: Her considerable services to BAPEN over many years, including Secretary in the early days and a long-time stalwart for BANS and its predecessor the HETF (home enteral tube feeding) register
Prof Jeremy Powell-Tuck
Awarded for: For being the instigator and founder of both BAPEN Medical and the UKHPN group, and his any contributions to BAPEN over many years
Mrs Christine Russell
Awarded for: Treasurer for BAPEN 2005-8. Contributor to MUST and the prime force in the Nutrition Screening Weeks
This award is presented by BAPEN “For significant and consistent contribution to BAPEN over many years”
Recipients to date:
- 2022 – Dr Trevor Smith
- 2022 – Anthony Murphy
- 2021 – Barry Jones
- 2021 – Simon Gabe
- 2020 – Jeremy Nightingale
- 2020 – Anne Holdoway
- 2018 – Janet Baxter
- 2017 – Ruth McKee
- 2015 – Pete Turner; Nicola Simmonds
- 2012 – Professor Mike Stroud
- 2011 – Ann Micklewright
- 2010 – Jeremy Powell-Tuck
- 2005 – Lynne Colagiovanni
- 2005 – Christine Russell
- 2003 – Vera Todorovic
- 2001 – Marinos Elia
- 2000 – Pat Howard
- 1999 – Carolyn Wheatley
- 1999 – David Silk
- 1998 – Ken Cottam
- 1995 – John Lennard-Jones
The John Lennard Jones Medal is the highest accolade that the Association can bestow. It is awarded only to individuals who have given significant and consistent contribution to BAPEN over many years. It relates specifically to BAPEN activities rather than the greater good of nutrition as a whole. It will often be awarded on retirement either from practice or from BAPEN. The award is the gift of BAPEN Faculty, who will consider nominations from any of the membership.
The award will not necessarily be restricted to one per annum and will not necessarily be awarded if, in the opinion of the IAC, no suitable candidate is proposed. In order to avoid any suggestion of bias and conflict of interest, the decision of the IAC, who act as an independent body, will be binding.
The medal will be publicly presented by a member of the IAC at the Annual BAPEN meeting.
Nominations should be 1 side of A4 from one proposer and one seconder who both must be full BAPEN members, giving reasons for the nomination and should be submitted to conferences@bapen.org.uk for consideration and bestowal at the BAPEN Annual Conference. Self-nominations are not permitted.
The Chairman of the IAC
Barry Jones
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Following the sad passing of Professor Chris Pennington in May 2002 during his chairmanship of BAPEN, a lecture was established in his memory. Each year at the annual conference an individual will be asked to present the ‘Pennington Lecture’. Selection will be highly individualised.
Speaker:
Alison Young
Job title: Nurse Consultant in Nutrition, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust
Title: The journey of the nutrition nurse consultant
Speaker:
Dr Alastair McKinlay
Job title: Consultant Gastroenterologist, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary
Title: Everyman. A journey through clinical nutrition?
Speaker:
Dr Jeremy Nightingale
Job title: Honorary Consultant Gastroenterologist, St Mark’s Hospital
Title: You Can Do It!
Speaker:
Dr Ruth McKee
Job title: Consultant Colorectal Surgeon, Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Title: Nutrition – making a difference
Speaker:
Dr George Grimble
Job title: Institute of Liver and Digestive Health (Bloomsbury), University College London
Title: Nothing is ever wasted
Speaker:
Professor Philip Calder
Title: Immunonutrition – where are we now?
Speaker:
Caroline Lecko
Title: This week we had Tea and Scones – creating a social movement to influence change.
Speaker:
Jon Shaffer
Title: Intestinal failure – concept, rehabilitation and dissemination.
Speaker:
Marinos Elia
Title: Money Matters
Speaker:
Christine Russell
Title: Nutritional screening: from concepts to applications
Speaker:
Becky White
Title: Quality Parenteral Nutrition – an Ideal Mixed Bag
Speaker:
Carolyn Wheatley
Title: A Journey of Discovery
Speaker:
Jeremy Powell-Tuck
Title: Developments in Hospital Nutritional Support – a personal perspective
Speaker:
Alan Jackson
Title: Counter-Intuitive Thinking in Nutritional Care
Speaker:
Rebecca Stratton
Title: Malnutrition: another health inequality?
Speaker:
Mike Stroud
Title: From Ice to NICE – Lessons from Nutritional Extremes
Speaker:
Simon Allison
Title: Integrated Nutrition
Speaker:
David Silk
Title: Chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudo-obstruction (CIIP): The remit of the clinical investigator, gastroenterologist, clinical nutritionist, pain relief expert or psychiatrist?
Speaker:
Barry Jones
Title: Recent Developments in the Provision of Home Parenteral Nutrition in the UK
The Professor RG Clark award recognises the best poster abstract submitted to the BAPEN conference. Professor Ron Clark passed away in 2018 and his family and friends kindly made a donation to BAPEN to honour his memory. We are proud to recognise this donation and his contribution to the world of clinical nutrition with this award. Recipients should rightly feel proud for being recognised with this accolade.
Ron Clark was Professor of Surgery at Sheffield and was one of the real innovators of nutrition support in the surgical patient. Importantly, he was one of the early investigators who understood the importance of the metabolic response to surgical injury and recognised the need for multidisciplinary research in this area. It was Ron who saw the importance of clinicians collaborating with the scientists from the Nutrition Society and was instrumental in setting up the Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic group of the Nutrition Society; in many respects this group became the precursor of BAPEN. In addition, he was a founder member of the European Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, its first executive chairman and founder editor of its journal, Clinical Nutrition.
Those who remember him say that above all else Ron was a gentleman who inspired very many junior colleagues to undertake nutrition research. We hope that the Prof RG Clark award will inspire a new generation of researchers in clinical nutrition.
2022
Development and pilot testing of a web-based decision aid for people with motor neurone disease considering a gastrostomy tube (DiAMoND Study)
by S. Wheelwright1, R. Maunsell2, S. Taylor2, N. Drinkwater3, C. Erridge4, C. Foster2, M. Hardcastle5, A. Hogden6, I. Lawson2, D. Lisiecka7, C. McDermott8, K. Morrison9, C. Muir2, A. Recio-Saucedo2 and S. White8, 1
University of Sussex, BN1 9RR, UK, 2University of Southampton, SO17 1BJ, UK, 3Motor Neurone Disease Association, NN3 6BJ, UK, 4University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust, SO16 6YD, UK, 5Rowans Hospice, PO7 5RU, UK, 6Australian Institute of Health Service Management, Australia, 7University of Limerick, Ireland, 8University of Sheffield, S10 2HQ,UK, 9Queen’s University Belfast, BT9 7BL, UK.
2021
Dietetic-led critical care nutrition interventions provided to critically ill patients with COVID-19 in a large London teaching hospital from March 2020 to April 2021
By E. Terblanche, J. Jackson, J. Wetherden, E. Russell and R. Lewis, St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
BAPEN introduced the Student Award in 2014. This award is open to any student nurse, dietitian, medic or pharmacist who has made a significant contribution in the field of nutrition which may be worthy of recognition, e.g. an audit, change of practice or project.
If you would like to nominate either yourself or a colleague please email the BAPEN Office for more details (bapen@bapen.org.uk).
The Student Award is awarded annually at the BAPEN Conference.
Recipients:
Amira Burnieh, Giulia Russo, Lara Dami, King’s College London
Awarded for: In support of the UKMAW 2020 social media campaign.
Recipients:
Siddhartha Oke, Imperial College, London
Awarded for: In recognition of his research on the long-term survival of patients with type 3 intestinal failure
Rachel Warke and Maeve Gallagher, Ulster University / Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland
Awarded for: In recognition of their contribution to completing a large number of research and quality improvement projects
Recipient:
Alison Culkin, London Southbank University
Awarded for: In recognition of becoming the first Registered Dietitian in the country to be a supplementary prescriber
Recipient:
Mina Bhural, City University
Awarded for: In recognition of her work to improve the provision of nutrition to ICU patients
Recipients:
Beth Rye, City University, St Mark’s Hospital
Awarded for: In recognition of her MSc project on perioperative nutritional status and complications in colorectal surgery
Filomena Gomes, King’s College London
Awarded for: In recognition of her work on ‘MUST’ in stroke
Recipient:
Arthur Okonkwo, Newcastle University
Awarded for: In recognition of his work on malnutrition in care homes
