Dr Nick Thompson
BAPEN President
Nick is a Consultant Gastroenterologist in Newcastle upon Tyne. He has helped develop a regional Intestinal Failure service over many years and also helped to establish the Northern Nutrition Network which meets biannually. Nick has had management roles in Trust as Clinical Director and Assoc Medical Director and was a previous senior Secretary of the British Society of Gastroenterology. He has also been the Programme Director for the registrar training programme in the northern region.
Nick has been a member of BAPEN for many years, has been a recent committee member of BAPEN medical and co-authored the BIFA guidelines on blood monitoring of HPN patients.
Dr Daniel Rogers
BAPEN Secretary
Dan is a Consultant Gastroenterologist at University Hospitals of Leicester and has a particular interest in patients with intestinal failure. He co-runs the home parenteral nutrition clinic and also runs a multi-disciplinary high output stoma clinic as well as regularly providing specialist nutrition input on the surgical wards. He also champions good nutrition, the posh tea round initiative and homegrown produce.
Until recently Dan was the Undergraduate Lead for Gastroenterology at the University of Leicester Medical School and during his time in post steadily increased the amount of nutritional care that medical students were taught and examined on.
Dr Charlotte Rutter
BAPEN Secretary
Charlotte is a Consultant Gastroenterologist working in the Cambridge Centre for Intestinal Rehabilitation and Transplant which is a regional SIF centre and one of the most active intestinal transplant units in the world. Charlotte was the BSG Workforce Lead (2017 – 2021) and a regional trainee representative followed by Chair of the BSG Trainees Section (2012 – 2017). In these roles she arranged many conference programmes as well as the Inaugural BSG Taster Course and annual Trainees Management and Education Weekends.
Charlotte has been a member of BAPEN for many years and is active in promoting awareness of malnutrition and committed to delivering quality training in nutrition and intestinal failure. She set up the “BAPEN Connect: Clinical Nutrition Webinars” with colleagues from Southampton and Newcastle, delivering monthly education which have been very well received with excellent attendance each month.
Sarah Zeraschi
BAPEN Treasurer
Sarah is the Consultant Pharmacist for Nutrition and Intestinal Failure in Leeds. She works with both adult and paediatric nutrition teams, and with primary care, and as BAPEN Regional Representative, helped to establish the Yorkshire and Humber Nutrition Network. In addition to seeing patients, much of her time is focussed on standardisation of prescribing practice and processes to ensure safe, patient-centred care.
Sarah has had a number of roles in clinical pharmacy and as aseptic service manager, and is immediate past Chair and past Secretary of the British Pharmaceutical Nutrition Group, currently holding the position of Professional Development Officer. During her time as BPNG Chair she sat on BAPEN Council, and has been a BPNG and BAPEN member for 20 years.
She is a member of the Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN) Clinical Advice and Management Group, and the HPN Stakeholders Group, and was involved with setting the specifications for Specialised Intestinal Failure and HPN services. She co-authored the BIFA guidelines on managing micronutrient provision during shortages and liaises with NHS England during shortages relating nutritional products.
Sarah-Jane Nelson
BAPEN Clinically assisted nutrition and hydration officer
Sarah-Jane is Principal Dietitian and Clinical Lead for Intestinal Failure, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland. Serving a population of 1.8million this service has grown over 20 years and achieved regional recognition in 2014 and secured ongoing funding for a 10 bedded unit and weekly IF clinic. Sarah-Jane was a lead business case developer for this process.
She is involved in the Trusts Nutrition Steering Committee and delivers education and training to undergraduate and postgraduate dietitians, nutritionists, nurses and doctors both locally and nationally.
Sarah-Jane has been involved with BAPEN for the last 9 years both as Northern Ireland representative and member of the British Artificial Nutrition Survey (BANS) committee, where she is a key developer of the Intestinal Failure Register. She, alongside Emily Walters, succeed President Trevor Smith as co-chairs of BANS for the next term.
In her limited (mum of 4) spare time, she enjoys weightlifting and a plant based lifestyle.
Dr Emily Walters
BAPEN Malnutrition Officer
Emily is a registered dietitian with specialist interest in disease related malnutrition. She is currently a Doctoral Research Fellow (NIHR CLAHRC) at the University of Southampton. Emily co-chairs the British Artificial Nutrition Survey committee with Sarah-Jane Nelson having previously held the secretarial role. She also sits on the Department of Health Advisory Committee for Borderline Substances.
Emily’s NHS dietetic practice focused on supporting individuals requiring nutrition support both in hospital and at home. She led the adult Nutrition and Dietetic Service at Southampton General Hospital for ten years with a track record of successful service improvement and research projects related to malnutrition risk and nutrition support. She continues with her desire to improve the quality of life and care of those with and at risk of malnutrition through her committee work, educational and research activities.
Ellie Coles
BAPEN Communications Officer
Dr Jane Fletcher
BAPEN Professional Affairs Officer
Jane is the Lead Nurse for Nutrition and Intestinal Failure based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Trust. Early in her career she was a member of the National Nurses Nutrition Group (NNNG) Committee, where she co-authored the Competency Framework for Nutrition Nurse Specialists on behalf of the NNNG and first became involved with BAPEN Communication and Programmes Committees.
Jane has an interest in expanding the role of nutrition nurses, both as independent practitioners and within the wider multi-disciplinary team. She believes in building the evidence base to promote and underpin excellent nutritional care. Jane is currently undertaking an NIHR Clinical Doctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Birmingham and is keen to pursue a clinical academic role.
Dr Emma Parsons
Education Officer
Emma is a Registered Dietitian and Assistant Professor in Clinical Nutrition at the University of Nottingham. She is also a visiting Teaching Fellow with the Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton. Emma is also member of BAPEN’s Malnutrition Action Group (MAG) committee.
Emma has specialist interests in disease related malnutrition and public health. She completed PhD and postdoctoral research exploring the identification and treatment of disease related malnutrition in older people. Emma has contributed to the design, implementation and evaluation of a range of malnutrition projects in the UK.
Emma has extensive experience of teaching, curriculum development and research supervision at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels for nutrition, dietetic, public health and medical students.
