Committee, Council & SIG Updates
The Nutrition Society
The Nutrition Society on behalf of Dr Bernadette Moore, University of Leeds, The Nutrition Society Clinical/Medical Advisory Council member
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With 2022 racing away from us, this will be my last update as Medical Advisory Council Member for The Nutrition Society as I come to the end of my tenure; and I welcome Dr Caroline Childs, University of Southampton, as the new Medical Advisory Council Member. During my tenure, it has been wonderful to see BAPEN and the Society collaborate in so many ways. Both organisations have many goals, missions and objectives in common, and their Memorandum of Understanding, signed in March 2021, will ensure this partnership continues to strengthen. I look forward to seeing how this relationship develops in the coming years.
Since my last update, the Society jointly hosted a conference with the Sabri Ülker Food Research Foundation entitled ‘Nutrition for healthcare professionals – Achieving Healthcare Through Diet’, which brought together healthcare professionals across Turkey to discuss the important role of nutrition in the prevention of disease. The Society also supported the first Georgian International Nutrition and Health Conference in Tbilisi, hosted by the Georgian Nutrition Society, entitled ‘Importance of Nutrition in Preventing Disease: Current International Research, Challenges and Opportunities for Georgia’.
As both of these conferences highlighted, healthcare professionals sit at a critical interface between evidence-based nutrition science and the general public; and play a key role in ensuring the provision of correct dietary and lifestyle advice for the prevention of disease and maintenance of health. The recent AfN Undergraduate Curriculum in Nutrition for Medical Doctors is timely therefore, and I am delighted to have played a role in its development alongside the Association for Nutrition (AfN), the General Medical Council, Academy of Medical Royal Colleges (AoMRC) and medical schools, royal colleges, and organisations including The Nutrition Society. This curriculum updates the previous AoMRC nutrition curriculum and is designed to allow medical schools to incorporate it into their training of our future doctors.
The Society’s Science Committee continues to deliver a high quality programmes portfolio. The recent Irish Section Conference on the ‘Impact of Nutrition Science to Human Health: Past Perspectives and Future Directions’, and the Summer Conference on ‘Food and Nutrition: Pathways to a sustainable future’ are excellent examples of the broad topics covered in our conferences.
BAPEN members are always very welcome to attend these events. Registration is now open for this year’s Winter Conference on Architecture of food: processing, structure and health, and may be of interest as it will consider the current understanding and knowledge gaps around the role of whole foods and food processing on health, focusing on primary prevention and management of chronic disease.
For those of you working in the area of gut health, we would like to remind you of our new open access journal ‘Gut Microbiome’. There is a current waiver on the article processing charge for all accepted manuscripts. This offers a great opportunity to those of you working in gut research to publish papers in a journal that supports development of an integrated, interdisciplinary understanding of the gut microbiome.
Whilst my term as Medical Advisory Council Member has come to an end, I will still be involved in much of the future activity between the two organisations and am very much looking forward to seeing old friends and meeting new BAPEN members at your annual conference on 29-20 November.
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