BAPEN Annual Conference delivered virtually with a webinar series

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, BAPEN were forced to take the decision to cancel the BAPEN Annual Conference which was scheduled to take place in Brighton in November 2020. Keen to replace the face to face conference with a high quality educational experience, the BAPEN Programmes committee, under the leadership of the Chair, Pete Turner and BAPEN’s Education Officer, Anne Holdoway, and supported by Jennie Mort of Sovereign Conference, rose to the challenge to deliver a successful series of webinars, which were streamed on weekday evenings from the 9th – 20th November and are outlined below:

Webinar Series 2020 programme

• Webinar 1: Tales of the Unexpected – Overcoming adversity in PN product provision
• Webinar 2: Rethinking Oral Nutrition Support
• Webinar 3: Virtual Nutrition Village: What’s new in tubes, lines and feeding devices
• Webinar 4: Nutrition in Neurological Conditions
• Webinar 5: Optimal Nutrition Support in the Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Patient
• Webinar 6: Nutritional Care for the Sarcopenic Obese Patient – From catabolic crisis to rehabilitation
• Webinar 7: BIFA – Leading the Way in Parenteral Support (PS) through COVID and Beyond
• Webinar 8: Lessons learned from COVID-19: Nutrition and respiratory disease
• Webinar 9: Managing Intestinal Failure during Difficult Times – New thinking on HPN
• Webinar 10: Achieving Lasting Change in the Nutritional Care of Cancer Patients
• BAPEN Medical Day: Dietary Advice – How to do it

Each webinar was supported by unrestricted education grant from our Industry colleagues and our thanks go to them for supporting our ambitions.

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The event was a huge success with over 1300 registrations and evening audiences exceeding 200 delegates on some nights. We would like to express our thanks to all the speakers, chairs, facilitators and registrants for participating in the ‘dine at home and dial in with BAPEN’ series – a full report will be published in the next edition of In Touch.

Virtual webinar series available on demand

If you missed the chance to view any of the webinars, you can access all the webinars including the BAPEN Medical day on demand at a time convenient to you. Remember as a BAPEN member, access to all is completely free! To access: click here.

BAPEN Awards and Recognitions

Presented by Dr Trevor Smith, President, BAPEN

Roll of Honour was presented to: Dr Sorrel Burden for her work on ‘MUST’, ‘MUST’ Licensing and Copyright.

Student Award was presented to: Amira Burnieh, Giulia Russo, Lara Dami from King’s College London in support of the UKMAW 2020 social media campaign.

John Lennard-Jones Medal

The John Lennard Jones Medal is the highest accolade that the Association can bestow. Dr Barry Jones, Chairman of the IAC had the pleasure of presenting two medals this year to two very worthy candidates for their significant and consistent contribution to BAPEN over many years:

Congratulations to all our 2020 Award Winners!