New Webinar Series: Advancing Clinical Nutrition Knowledge and Practice
BAPEN is excited to announce its latest webinar series designed for healthcare professionals, nutritional scientists, and anyone passionate about clinical nutrition. This series will feature expert-led discussions, cutting-edge research insights, and practical strategies to enhance nutritional care.
Aims
- To provide evidence-based education in clinical nutrition for healthcare professionals, nutritional scientists and healthcare students.
- To highlight the importance of good nutrition and the implications of malnutrition on patient outcomes in all clinical settings.
Each session will tackle key topics such as:
- Managing malnutrition in diverse populations.
- Innovations in artificial nutrition and hydration.
- Multidisciplinary approaches to improving patient outcomes.
The next webinar will be on Malnutrition at 12:30 – 13:30 BST on Wednesday 15th October.
RegisterSpeakers
Speaker details to follow.
Paediatric Nutrition Screening & Assessment – Caroline Anderson
Caroline is an advanced clinical academic practitioner and national leader in paediatric renal nutrition with over 30 years’ experience spanning clinical care, research, improvement and education. Caroline leads the tertiary paediatric nephrology dietetic service at University Hospital Southampton.
Caroline research aims to optimise the nutritional care, patient experience and outcomes for children with Kidney Failure embedding research into everyday clinical practice.
Caroline’s PhD investigated energy expenditure, physical activity, body composition, nutritional status and balance in children with kidney disease. Post-doctoral work has explored Quality of Life, micronutrient status, appetite, obesity, lived experience of nutritional care, shared decision making and virtual models of care.
Caroline holds a Health Education England QI fellowship and leads a programme intergrading digital technology into care and a fellowship of higher education. Caroline also teaches across under- and postgraduate healthcare programmes, supervising dissertations and PhD’s.
Caroline has published and presented at national and international level and is an active member of the Paediatric Renal Nutrition Group, International Paediatric Renal Nutrition Taskforce, Kidney Quality Improvement Initiative, and Paediatric Innovation, Education and Research committees, and has represented Allied Health Professionals on NHS England Policy.
Adult Nutrition Screening & Assessment – Emma Parsons
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.
Upcoming Webinars
Click on the title of the webinar to register.
| Date | Topic |
|---|---|
| Wednesday 15th October 2025 | Malnutrition |
| Wednesday 19th November 2025 | Key themes from the Annual Conference |
- We’ll open registration for the next webinar as soon as the previous webinar has been held
- There won’t be webinars in August or December
- Most webinar times will be 12:30 – 13:30 (BST/GMT) however, there will be some evening sessions. All times will be confirmed shortly
- Topics may alter slightly
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